For the love of Pangong tso

List of abused tourist is long and never ending. People come and enjoy their part and leave with some irreversible damages to the environment. Latest and sad entrant to the list is Pangong tso (tso for lake in Ladakhi). Located in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4,250 m (13,900 ft) and is 134 km (83.3 mi) long. Most of its part lies in Tibet and is claimed by India.

Once it was featured in mani ratnam’s movie dil se in song satrangi re there was no stopping the affair between Bollywood and Pangong tso. Long gone are the days when only the enthusiasts could make it across the rohtang pass to reach Leh and then to the Pangong lake and gone are the days when you would be alone on the Leh - Manali highway for countless kilometers on your bike. Its appearance in the movie ‘3 idiots’ triggered a tsunami of tourism in this region.

With increased Chinese intrusion in this region it became more important for India to strengthen its claim over this region. As a result the Inner Line Permit (ILP) was abolished and now Indians are free to visit this place without any permission, thus going one step further to trigger that wave of tourism in the region. Where the increased tourism meant more income and better lifestyle for the people of Leh and Ladakh it also meant a huge overload of tourism wastage generated every month. The serene mountains, the shining blue lake never saw so many people in their lifetime.

Although boating is banned in this lake for security reasons, driving big SUVs into the lake for a ‘perfect click’ and littering in and around the lake has worsened the situation for Pangong tso. Never seen hikes in the temperature have been recorded in the area. Today we cannot say that people are not aware enough that they don’t know about the concept of garbage disposal and simple dustbins or simply the term global warming. People have become insensitive towards the need of our environment.

We the people of India need to realize that these tourist destinations are in important source of local as well as global economy,we need to collectively protect them so that our future generations can see them in their true colors and you don’t have to point to a barren piece of land and say that there used to be a beautiful lake here which used to freeze in winters without being salty in nature. Let’s come forward and help Pangong tso to flourish as it has been forever.

Arun Dahiya

TOP 5 ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS FROM INDIA AND ABROAD

In recent years, the management and mitigation of the various phenomenon brought about by anthropogenic manipulation of the environment has assumed considerable importance. Many countries, including India, have endeavoured to develop innovative techniques to curb environmental degradation and optimize the use of their natural resources. The need for adoption of environmentally sustainable practices has been globally recognized and numerous projects have been developed to that end. Here are a few examples from India and around the world:

Use of Ducks To Treat Grey And Black Water, India

Treatment and management of sewage is a serious issue in India. The average wastewater generated per capita per day in India is around 121 litres. Also , it has been found that around 73% of sewage generated in Indian cities finds its way into rivers and other water bodies sans any treatment. Economic, easy to maintain and sustainable solutions are needed for efficient sewage management in our country and the Indian green service, a trust operating out of Tamil Nadu, has taken a step towards that. Developing an ingenious way to reduce the biological oxygen demand while ensuring aeration, the IGS has used ducks and catfishes to treat the municipal sewage generated at Vellore. The infrastructure consists of five treatment tanks, inhabited by around 150 ducks. The ducks take up all algae, insects, worms and other organic matter as food. This results in increased penetration of sunlight which acts as a natural disinfectant, preventing mosquitoes. The constant paddling action of ducks facilitates increased aeration. After about a month, 10-15 catfishes are introduced in the tanks. These consume the algae on the side walls and other small organisms that escape the ducks. In this manner, 3,00,000 litres of water is recycled each day. In addition to recycled water, the rearing of ducks also results in other commercial gains. Their droppings serve as good source of manure and their eggs are consumable and provide a good source of income.

Rice-Fish Culture

Excessive use of fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides results in rampant pollution of the groundwater and rivers in addition to soil degradation. A notable solution to this problem, practiced in rice growing countries like India, China and Bangladesh is Rice-Fish Culture. It involves farmers introducing small, indigenous fish into their rice fields. The fishes provide a source of fertilizer with their droppings, eat pests and help to circulate oxygen around the rice fields while being protected from birds among the dense rice plants. Farmers have reported that keeping fish can increase rice yields up to 10% while also providing an additional supply of fishes. This practice results in better crop yield while significantly reducing the pollution caused by the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Waste Handling And Management, Germany And Singapore

Management of municipal wastes, both solid and liquid, is an uphill task for any growing economy. While most countries struggle with staggering figures and insufficient infrastructure, Germany and the city-state of Singapore lead by example. Power generation and recycling take care of 98% of Singapore's solid waste while only 2% is sent to landfills. Almost 3% of the country's electricity needs are met by its waste-to-energy plants and the recycling rates are at an all-time high of 60%. The European Union has set a target of 50% waste recycling to be achieved by 2020. In Germany, this target has been already met with 62% of their waste being recycled as of 2010. The target for biodegradable municipal waste, set for 2016, was met in 2006. Both Germany and Singapore have displayed exceptional capacities in waste handling by following one simple methodology: reduction in amounts of landfills and a move towards incineration as final disposal. Also, an increased stress reduction and recycling of wastes- looking at disposal as a final option.

Potatoes From Briny Soil, Netherlands

Approximately 70% of the world's freshwater is used by the agriculture industry. Studies have shown that the worldwide salinisation of agricultural land will escalate under the influence of climate change. To combat this issue, the research facility 'Tested on Texel' in Netherlands is testing the possibility of agriculture under salty conditions. The research focuses on cultivation of vegetation, including potatoes, in briny soil. The 'briny potato' has a very rich mineral composition and an exceptionally good taste. Similar projects have been started in Egypt.

Water Square, Netherlands

Only about 50% of the land in the Netherlands exceeds one metre above sea level and most of the area below sea level is manmade. Netherlands is a very densely populated country with insufficient land available to combat the increasing frequency as well as intensity of rains. The idea of water squares was conceived to compensate for the unavailability of land to harvest rainwater. A multifunctional water square has been created in the city of Rotterdam with temporary rainwater catchment area at the square and a special public area for the citizens.

Ajinkya Puranik

Exotic beaches, a rich heritage, scenic mountains and even a hot air balloon ride over a world’s wonder… Welcome to Incredible India. Earlier people used to buy an air ticket and fly abroad to see and experience these things. But for the last few years domestic tourism has gathered a tremendous growth and more and more Indians are choosing Indian places instead of foreign destinations. From the time immemorial to many people India is considered as a land of rich heritage, culture and history.

Whether it is British, Mughals, Afghans or Portuguese India still blossoms with a touch and mix of these cultures together in one place. This rich culture of India has played such a strong role in rising index of tourism in India that it can be seen from the fact that the Indian government has set up Ministry of tourism and culture. Aim of this ministry is to promote cultural tourism in India. According to the World travel and tourism council tourism generated around 6.4 trillion USD or say 6.6% of nations GDP in 2012. It provides employment to over 39.5 million people and around 7.7% of total employment in the country.

A report by travel and tourism competitiveness states that India stands at 65^th place in tourism out of the 144 countries. Moreover India’s receipt from tourism was ranked 17^th in the world. So, such a large industry can make a rapid growth if we promote Indian culture and heritage globally. India is the country with unity and diversity. India is a beautiful amalgamation of religions, regions, languages, believes, customs, traditions and even different foods and music. Over the decades and centuries India has preserved its cultural heritage, be it architectural extravagance of its forts, palaces and havelis, or various religious influences as seen in various temples, mosques, churches or gurudwaras, or even traditional folk music and dance.

Considering all this, India is the most preferred place to visit to experience all these diverse things at one place. But there is also a different side to this story. Our environment is taking a big hit with rising tourism. For example the Pangong lake in Ladakh is being polluted at such a rapid rate that the average temperature of that place has risen considerably. With such a blooming industry we need to control its side effects on our environment.

Thus culture can be used as a catalyst in the growth of tourism in India but with a responsibility to control environmental pollution and hence the global warming in the country.

Arun Dahiya

Mental blocks and Fear

What can you do if you are faced with a difficult situation and see no way clear? The solution lies within the problem! Every question implies its own answer. Your subconscious mind knows all and sees all. You must follow your subconscious mind with confidence. Once you achieve this new attitude, you will always find the answer you seek.

It has been said that people’s greatest enemy is fear. Millions of people are afraid of their past, future, death, etc. But actually fear is just a thought in your mind. This means that we are afraid of our own thoughts. A small child can be paralyzed with fear when someone says that there is a monster under the bed who will grab him in the night. But when the parents turn on the light, there is no monster. The fear is in the mind of the child. He was healed of a false thought in his mind. In the same way, most of our fears have no reality.

If you are an alcoholic or drug addict, admit it. Do not dodge from the issue, many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it. Your disease is an inner fear. We are living in a psychological prison of our own making. We are bound by our own beliefs, opinions and other influences. We are a creature of habit and thus we are conditioned to react the way we do.

If you have a keen desire to free yourself from a bad habit, you are actually 51% healed. When your desire to give up a bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is just a step away.

“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”

-PSLAM 34:4         

When fear knocks at the door of your mind, or when worry and doubt cross your mind, think of the infinite power within your subconscious mind. Fill your mind with the concept of freedom ie freedom from fear, bad habits, doubts, etc. And slowly this will give you confidence, power and courage. Keep on; keep trying, until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

-Sahil Shaparia

NGOs and their Assistance to the Government

In the past few decades, we have seen tremendous effort from the Non-government organisations. Call it the upsurge of the youth for a better society or whatever; today many non-governmental organisations have been able to achieve what the government sometimes lacked. NGOs are working in literally every sector that there is, and that is because social causes need people’s initiatives and the government is not always able to reach every person. In this article, we will be discussing environmental NGOs in particular.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change in the government of India constitutes a special NGO cell to oversee the functions of environmental NGOs in the country. It was constituted in May 1992 to promote more NGOs and movement in the society with respect to environment. The forest department and the NGOs many a time collaborate and disseminate information for each other. Surveys conducted by the former and provided with personnel by the NGOs who may also require the information for their campaigns.

International NGOs have been able to carry out campaigns that have been successful in protecting an endangered species, or at least spread enough awareness that people could do something about it. Let us take two case studies, one from India and one from another country.

WWF India, India’s largest NGO working in the environment sector, has launched campaigns for protection of endangered species like the Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, Snow leopard, Ganges river dolphins etc. The way they go about it is that they focus more on the threats that these species have and the issues in their surroundings like poaching and hunting, loss of habitat. So there campaigns stress more upon people’s awareness. Only sometimes they cater to government intervention.

International Fund for Animal Welfare from the United States of America has a different approach towards handling this. Their belief in state is perhaps a little higher, so their direct line of attack is legal and they fight for law reforms that may help their situation. For example, USA and China last month committed to protecting elephants by banning ivory trade in the regions, due to IFAW leaders and campaigners. Similarly for tiger protection, IFAW has leaders fighting the government for protection from poachers, hunting for tiger skins; IFAW, in partnership with Russian government and World Bank among others, helped in organizing the global tiger summit to fight the legal and awareness battle. Similarly, in 2009, revised trade in seal products was seen due to various animal NGOs along with IFAW.

Both these approaches work, and well. But they are thought of differently because people of India are so much more different than any other country. It takes different types of appeals to arouse people’s feelings towards something enough that they do something for it. Therefore, the NGOs in India, although large in number, do in some ways or the other contribute to the environment conditions of the place they operate in. Even if they do not affect the governance and the laws in India, they do impact the way people function in a particular ambience.

Let’s help these NGOs in what they are trying to achieve because at the end, they are working towards causes that the society as a whole faces and therefore, we are the basic units of it. If we just do what we are supposed to, everyone’s work would be so much easier. You don’t have to be or support a non-governmental organisation to protect the place where you live. Although, support some that don’t have the scope of involving you directly. 

Vaibhavi Khanwalkar

Carbon Footprint: Whose fault is it anyway?

It has been taught to us since junior schooling that the environment is a place for all living beings. We have been taught interdependence and mutual benefit. For the next ten minutes let us forget that humans are destroying everything for their own greed. Let us dissect this and see.

Every living thing has a role to play in this eco-system. Since time immemorial, animals and plants have been maintaining all sorts of cycles to keep the ground cool and the wind blowing. The plants have refilled oxygen in the air that every organism breathes and taken in their carbon dioxide. Animals have been carrying forward the food chain smoothly. The simplest way to explain food chain would be this: the lion eats the deer, who feasts on the grass. More deer would mean less grass; that would mean more soil erosion. Soil erosion leads to damage to trees and that would get us into all sorts of trouble. So you see what I mean when I say how animals maintain the food chain.

Carbon footprint is the measure of emission of greenhouse gases by an individual or an organisation. Before humans found ways to emit greenhouse gases, there were seldom any instruments of harm. But since that ship has already sailed, it is wiser to look at things that can be done. Animals are our hope of bringing global warming to somewhat a stop. This is how.

Animals regulate the system of a particular region. Like a few cycles mentioned above, every region has a different setting, climatic conditions, and weather and eco system. Biodiversity of a particular region is adapted to a style which is maintained by animals and plants of that region. Therefore, animals have a direct involvement in maintaining the carbon cycle of the forests among others.

In a lot of villages where I surveyed people, there one problem was tigers harming their crops and cattle. These were villages close to protected forest areas. That was the first time I really understood what animals could really do. So, forests are animals’ habitat and therefore, they protect them. In a forest, people are only afraid to go because they fear being eaten. Out of the lot of them, 70% of people wouldn’t mind killing the tigers, but they couldn’t because a) it is illegal, and b) they were scared. Only 30% truly understand that only animals can hold the forests and their environments together. Of course protecting their habitat isn’t the first thing, but it is a chief reason, and I say this after really hearing it first hand from people who have experienced it.

By protecting our forests, they are directly helping reduce the carbon footprint of every individual. Every person who doesn’t understand the power of one tree, one whiff of oxygen, one less unit of greenhouse gases in our air, is likely to be in debt of animals that are protecting their share of trees.

But now we can remind ourselves again that we are destroying everything. Let us take a moment and think about this, shall we? Why do we say that the animals and plants are helping us? The world is not centered around us. We are a part of the system; everyone has a role to play. The organisms are not serving us, they are doing their job. It’s time we do ours. 

Vaibhavi Khanwalkar

Wonders of Sleep

You spend about eight out of every 24hrs, or one third of your entire life, in sleep. Sleep is a divine law and also many answers to our problems come to us when we are in a deep sleep.

Your subconscious mind never rests or sleeps. It is always active, controlling all your vital forces. The healing process takes place more rapidly while you are asleep, because there is no interference from your conscious mind. Remarkable answers are given to you while you are asleep.

Lack of asleep can cause you to become irritable, moody and sometimes depressed. All human beings need a minimum of six hours of sleep to be healthy. Most people need more. Those who think they can get along on less are fooling themselves. Medical researchers who have investigated sleep processes and lack of sleep point out that severe insomnia have led to psychological breakdown in some instances.

One way to find out why we need sleep is to look at what happens when we do not get it. In 1964, a seventeen -year old boy named Randy Gardner kept himself awake for 264 hours i.e., eleven straight days! Medical tests showed that during the time he was awake, his thinking process deteriorated. His speech became slurred. He also suffered from memory lapses.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as many as 200,000 traffic accidents a year are related to sleep problems. Drivers are five to ten times more likely to have an accident late at night than during the daytime.

 There was a man named Ray Hammerstrom who worked as a roller in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Despite the best efforts of the installers, a machine which was installed recently could not be made to work properly. Ray thought a lot about the problem. He also tried to figure out a new design, but nothing worked. One afternoon he lay down for a nap. As he fell asleep, he thought about the problem. During his nap he had a dream in which he saw a perfect design for the problem. When he got up, he sketched his new design according to his dream. This visionary cat nap won Ray a check for $15,000, the largest award the firm had ever given an employee for a new idea.

Remember that, your future is the result of your habitual thinking which is already in your mind unless you change it through prayer. There is nothing strange in the dream where you see the headlines of the newspapers long before the events even take place. Tomorrow’s events are in your subconscious mind. So are the next week’s and next month’s. No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is predetermined. Your mental attitude ie the way you think, feel, believe determines your destiny.

-Sahil Shaparia

Saying the F Word Loud

Miss R-Evolutionaries page on Facebook memed a comment which goes like this-

“If you don’t want to be a feminist, that’s cool. There’s a basket by the door where you can stick your college education at an institution of your choosing, your independently rented/owned residence, your credit cards, your car, your right to vote, your birth control, your career, your job if you get married and/or have a baby, your money as well as your autonomous control of it, your ability to consent to sex, your ability to make your healthcare decisions, your ability to serve on a jury your ability to compete in sports at various levels, any military service you have done/want to do as well as accompanying benefits, your right to run for public office, your right to breastfeed in public, your ability to fill for divorce and other legal protections including child support, your right to have domestic violence and rape committed against you to be investigated and tried in court. Now that I think about it, if all these ‘I don’t need feminism’ chicks want to give ALL THAT back, then we may need a U-Haul instead of a basket”

It has not even been a century since the world gave half its humankind the political right to vote.  If United Kingdom gave it in 1918 (only to propertied women above 30 years of age when men above 21 could vote; universal suffrage was attained only in 1928), then Saudi Arabia joined the wagon only in 2011.And have we grown tired of the F-word already?

Disclaimer: This is not an attempt to make you a feminist; far from that. This is an attempt to vindicate a movement that finds itself maligned amidst an imbroglio furthered by a syndicate of vested interests.

We know there is discourse going on against feminism. Oh you are a feminist?  You mean the one belonging to the man-hating-wagon? Or is it the one for whom gender equality means women above men? Or the one who is responsible for breaking homes and families.

This typecasting has been responsible for much that has gone wrong with the way the movement is perceived to be (mind it, ‘perceived to be’). For record, it is not, never was, man versus woman, but was always about man and woman as a society versus patriarchy, no matter who its agents, caretakers and beneficiaries be.

Patriarchy. The term which, simply put, refers to a society where men hold relative power, dominion and status (economically, politically, legally). Now as soon as we hear this word, we get defensive. No I don’t treat my women as inferior beings; no patriarchy has gone down the drain and replaced with matriarchy.

Firstly, congratulations to you for treating your womenfolk as they deserve to be treated and not how patriarchy would they were, but you do not deserve any more appreciation than this. Secondly, equally worrisome as this new matriarchal society is, it is untrue. Has patriarchy really gone?

Are you telling me rapes do not happen? Or that rape culture has nothing to do with patriarchy? Are you telling me rapists are not breathing the same air as you and me do but belong outside the spectrum of our possibilities? Are you telling me that my body is free? That I can play Holi as bare breasted as my brothers? That it has been desexualized and it can breathe and bra straps and cleavages do not give to rise to “passions”? Are you telling me I am free of sexist jokes? Are you telling me you find nothing patriarchal about the institution of marriage wherein by the way it is not arbitrarily decided that I as a woman will have to relinquish one thing that serves my existence and identity- my name?  Are you guaranteeing me that no one will sneer at my buttocks as I cross the general compartment before you spit your argument against having a women’s coach? Are you telling me parents have stopped giving and asking for dowry? Or that there is no such thing as female genital mutilation? Or that there is no difference in the way parents raise their sons and daughters? Or that parents do not thump their chests when they say, “I have raised my daughter as a son?”, or that there is not a huge disparity in the number of women who graduate and number of women sitting in boardrooms of top companies? or that religion has had no contribution to all this, where if Islam allows polygamy then Hinduism will never let me, a faint-hearted woman, cremate my parents when they die? The day my fears as a 21 year old are same as that of a man my age, and you tell me all these things with modicum of veracity in them, I will readily relinquish my claim. We must get the question straight and our politics right- as long as patriarchy exists, the fight against it will.

Feminism has long been accused of rupturing cordial family lives and peaceful homes. I think the main reason for it is that cordiality and peace, doesn’t not guarantee equality. If it is engrained in the very consciousness of each partner to play particular roles, they will play it and they will play it well. They will feel a sense of fulfillment because they played it so good. What feminism does is to bring consciousness, to reconsider these roles, to make known that freedom of choice is the most natural right of a living being. Choice is a privilege my friends. Choice to work, not to work, to cook, to not cook, to have only two children and no more, or none at all, to have sex or not to have sex, and most of all, to be respected for these choices. To adjust and compromise as equal partners but to never sacrifice. Ignorance is bliss, consciousness is uncomfortable.

Indian laws like the draconian section 498a dowry act, sexual harassment at workplace act, domestic violence act, are issues that are responsible for the downcast of feminism. These laws are made on majoritarian basis such that in majority cases women get domestically violated or sexually harassed at workplace. This is not gender equality. It is the failure of legal system to provide immunity to even minor number of cases. Our legal system fails if it is based on majoritarianism. TOI pointed out in a recent article dated March 22, 2015, that 10% of dowry cases are false leading to mental, social and physical torture suffered by husband and his family. This is a feminist fight because this is the misuse of a right that the movement earned. With rights come duties.

If terrorism is waged in the name of God, God does not get maligned. If pseudo-feminists, government policies and laws, and one section of society’s attempt to orchestrate a well-organized vendetta against a political, economic and cultural movement, it should not malign that which is the only neutral stand to take as long my father’s approval overrides my mothers’- feminism.

In the end I’d like to quote Arundhati Roy,
“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power”

Flowers are good, but give me a revolution.

- Cheshta Rajora

Undergraduate Research Journals

The blog shares the best Undergraduate Research Journals which promotes and published undergraduate research papers around the world.

All of these undergraduate journals are peer-reviewed; professional-level, open-access academic publication that is accepts manuscripts and technical notes of the highest scientific value and outstanding scientific analysis. Each paper published in the these journals undergoes a double-blind peer review process facilitated by the Journal‘s Editorial Review Board and sometimes a faculty review by a member of the Faculty Advisory Board. Publication in the journals is highly competitive and beneficial for undergraduate students who want to make their career in Research and Development.

Some of the best journals 

1.  Colombian Undergraduate Science Journal : http://cusj.columbia.edu/

2.  JUR Press : http://jur.colostate.edu

3.  The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal : http://surj.stanford.edu

4.   Reinvention : http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/reinvention/

5.   Student Pulse : http://www.studentpulse.com

Get the Results you want

The true inner meaning of success is to be successful at the enterprise of living. A long period of peace, joy and happiness on this plane may be termed success. The real things of life such as peace, harmony, security and happiness are indefinable. They come from the deep self of human beings. Meditating on those qualities builds these treasures of heaven in our subconscious. That is the true place where... “moth and rust do not consume, where thieves do not break through and steal”

But the question arises, how to be successful in life? How to get the results we want? We have worked hard, still we have failed! What was wrong in our technique?

Any time when you try to force your subconscious mind to do something for you, you will fail. The results you want will become more distant instead of closer. Your subconscious mind does not respond to mental compulsion. Your failure to get results may also be a consequence of mentally making some statements as

·        Things are getting worse

·        I will never get an answer

·        I see no way out

·        I don’t know that to do, etc

When you use such statements, you get no response from your subconscious mind. Like a soldier marking time, you go neither forward nor backward. In other words you don’t get anywhere.

“When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination gains the day”

Suppose you were asked to walk along a narrow plank that was resting on the floor, you would do it easily. But now suppose the same plank were twenty feet up, stretching between two walls, would you walk it? Could you? Probably not. Your desire to walk the length of the plank would come into conflict with your imagination. You would imagine yourself falling a long way to the ground. You might very much want to walk across the plank (Desire), but your fear of falling would keep you from being able to do it (Imagination). The more effort you put into conquering your imagination, the greater strength is given to the dominant idea of falling. Mental effort often leads to self-defeat, creating the opposite of what is desired.

Have you ever had something like this happen to you? You have to take an examination of some kind. You have pit a lot of time preparing for it. You feel as if you know it well. But when you face an exam, you find that your mind is blank. All you knowledge of the subject has suddenly deserted you. You can’t recall anything. You try harder and harder to remember, but the harder you try, the farther the knowledge seems to flee. Frustrated, you leave the examination room. The mental pressure slowly eases. Suddenly the answers you were hunting for so desperately a few minutes ago flow back to your mind. You told yourself that you knew the material, yes you did…but not even you needed. The mistake you made was to try to force yourself to remember. By the law of reversed effort, this led, not to success, but to failure, what you got was the opposite of what you asked or prayed for.

Now the question arises, how to avoid this conflict?

You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination by entering into a sleepy state that brings all effort to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The best time to infuse anything in your subconscious is just prior to sleep. In this state the negative thoughts and imagery that tend to neutralize your desire and thus prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind no longer present themselves. When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realization of your desire.

-Sahil Shaparia