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"Lack of sleep has been implicated in everything from obesity to traffic accidents. (It's well known that the day of the year with the greatest number of traffic accidents is the day after Daylight Saving Time ends.) Sleep disorders are big business. As of this writing, use of sleep medications has grown by more than 60 percent since 2000, and in 2006, makers of sleeping pills spent more than $600 million advertising directly to consumers. Obviously, more than a few people are having some problems catching some good shut-eye. Inositol might be the answer." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"He'd postulated that if i per cent of an area had people practising TM, or the square root of i per cent of the population were practising TM-Sidhi, a more advanced and active type of meditation, conflict of any variety - rates of shootings and other crime, drug abuse, even traffic accidents - would go down. The idea of the 'Maharishi' effect was that regularly practicing TM enables you to get in touch with a fundamental field that connects all things - a concept not unlike the Zero Point Field. If enough people were doing it, the coherence would prove infectious among the entire population." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Prescription drugs are so dangerous to cognitive function that today as many as 30 percent of all traffic accidents involve prescription drugs, because people take drugs and then think they can continue to drive. But they have impaired nervous system function—-which means impaired perception and slower reaction times—and this leads to traffic accidents. In fact, depending on the drug, driving on prescription drugs can be even more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. Remember, cognitive decline is not a normal side effect of aging. It is a completely reversible problem." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"It's well known that the day of the year with the greatest number of traffic accidents is the day after Daylight Saving Time ends.) Sleep disorders are big business. As of this writing, use of sleep medications has grown by more than 60 percent since 2000, and in 2006, makers of sleeping pills spent more than $600 million advertising directly to consumers. Obviously, more than a few people are having some problems catching some good shut-eye. Inositol might be the answer." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Lunesta is a pure "mirror version" of the same molecule as its parent, zopiclone, and appears to have been developed in a marketing effort to leave behind the negative marketing that was associated with studies of zopiclone (conducted before the latest Z drugs were released), which showed an increase in traffic accidents with its use. Until studies are performed to specifically address the issue, we have to assume that all of the Z drugs will eventually be found to be associated with an increase in driving accidents." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Use of benzodiazepine medications is associated with a 60% increase in traffic accidents. This increased safety risk is not a factor with other psychotropics, including antidepressants. Risk was increased with concurrent alcohol usage and age. There was also an increased risk with zopiclone, one of the newer-generation insomnia medications (see below).1 The authors of this study concluded that patients taking sleep medications shouldn't drive. These risks in addition to the more serious problems of sleepwalking and even sleepdriving (see below) raise serious concerns about these drugs." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The good news is that traffic accidents would be virtually impossible: automobiles ?and passengers ?could collide harmlessly at any speed.39 Elsewhere, in an article about future space travel, Clarke wrote: 'If I was a NASA administrator ... I'd get my best, brightest and youngest (no one over 25 need apply) to take a long, hard look at Puthoff et al.'s equations.'4?Later, Haisch, Rueda and Daniel Cole of IBM would publish a paper showing that the universe owes its very structure to the Zero Point Field." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "In one 1983 study of a special TM assembly in Israel, which tracked the Arab-Israeli conflict day by day for two months, on days when the number of meditators was high, war deaths in Lebanon fell by 76 per cent, and local crime, traffic accidents and fires all decreased. Once again, confounding influences such as weather, weekends or holidays had been controlled for.'8 The TM studies, as well as Nelson's FieldREG work, in their own small, preliminary way offered hope to an alienated and Godless generation. Good might well be able to conquer evil after all. We could create a better community." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The incidence of traffic accidents, hospital emergency-room visits, and even violent crimes against people went down. In the presence of peace, all that could happen was peace. As interesting as these results are, however, what they demonstrate next has been an ongoing mystery to those studying this effect.20 When the experiments stopped, the violence returned, in some instances reaching levels even greater than before the experiments began. What happened? Why did the effects of the meditations and prayers appear to end?" - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Their reach apparently extended beyond armed conflict; ordinary violence—local crime, traffic accidents, and fires—also all decreased. When analyzing their results, the TM group claimed to have controlled for confounding influences such as weather.16 TM adepts have also sought to influence the "misery index"—the sum of inflation and unemployment rates—in the United States and Canada. And indeed, during one concerted effort between 1979 and 1988, the U.S. index fell by 40 percent and the Canadian index by 30 percent." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"During the window of time that they were at peace, terrorist incidents, crimes against people, emergency-room visits, and traffic accidents all declined in number. When the participants stopped their practice, the statistics reversed. These studies confirmed the earlier findings: When a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, that peace was reflected in the world around them." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"During the window of time when they were feeling peace, terrorist activities ceased, the rate of crimes against people went down, the number of emergency-room visits declined, and the incidence of traffic accidents dropped. When the participants' feelings changed, the statistics were reversed. This study confirmed the earlier findings: When a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, it was reflected in the world around them." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"If 1 percent of the population of a particular area practices TM, he claims, or the square root of 1 percent of the population practices TM-Sidhi, a more advanced type of meditation, conflict of any variety—the rate of murders, crime, drug abuse, even traffic accidents?goes down. Twenty-two studies have tested the positive impact of the Maharishi Effect on crime levels. One study of 24 U.S. cities showed that whenever a city reached a point where 1 percent of the population was carrying out regular TM, the crime rate dropped to 24 percent." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"West Virginia is one of the few states that regularly test for drugs, both legal and illegal, in traffic accidents in which drivers are killed. In an analysis of these fatalities, officials discovered that in 2004 and 2005 roughly the same percentage of drivers who died had drugs in their bodies as those who had blood alcohol levels that exceeded the legal limit. They also found that among the deceased drivers testing positive for drugs, more had been taking prescription drugs than illegal drugs like marijuana or cocaine." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"This is more than the number of deaths from alcohol, illegal drugs, traffic accidents, suicide, and homicide combined. Tobacco smoking causes an estimated 33 percent of all cancer deaths, 25 percent of fatal heart attacks, and 85 percent of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It accounts for at least 85 percent of lung cancer cases." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"But they have impaired nervous system function—-which means impaired perception and slower reaction times—and this leads to traffic accidents. In fact, depending on the drug, driving on prescription drugs can be even more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. Remember, cognitive decline is not a normal side effect of aging. It is a completely reversible problem." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Just as a city absorbs its share of accidents, be it fires, traffic accidents, or chemical spills, our bodies can also take some hits. But they're not perfect. We die or have a decreased quality of life because we knock our heads, or break our bones, or can't stop bleeding. The reason? Again, it's one of those biological trade-offs. Our bodies certainly could be made to withstand more. If it were necessary to preserve the species, evolution would have made sure that our bones were firm enough to survive a fall from a cliff, or our organs dense enough never to bleed out." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"In September 1999 dusr blowing off of agricultural fields blinded drivers and triggered fatal traffic accidents on Interstate 84 near Pendleton, Oregon. Plowing exposes bare, disrupted soil to dramatic erosion when stotms ravage ground not yet shielded by vegetation. In the American Midwest, over half the erosion from land planted in corn occurs in May and June before crops grow large enough to cover rhe ground. Crop yields fall once the topsoil is gone and farmers plow down into subsoil with lower organic matter, nutrienr content, and water-retention capacity." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Following September 11, for example, many decided to drive rather than to fly; the result was that more people died in traffic accidents than died in airplanes. In 2005, when bombs went off in London, a cursory reading of the press reports revealed that the bombers were the rankest amateurs. Some didn't know how to detonate their bombs. And when they contacted their "mastermind," they did so on cell phones—which they then took with them on their bombing missions." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"By eliminating major injuries resulting from traffic accidents, we can keep the scope of this chapter within reasonable limits. Before going into the mechanics of injury, diagnosis, and treatment, we need to define some terms. Objective findings are those anybody can see, while subjective symptoms are felt only by the disabled person. Muscle spasm is an objective finding. The muscles on the injured side are tightened up, bulging, and feel hard as a board to an examiner. Pain and a tight, tied-up feeling are your symptoms. When you have muscle spasm, all of the muscle fibers are contracting." - Ben E. Benjamin, Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury (Get the book.)

"Chronic sleep deprivation is associated with high blood pressure, weight gain, diabetes, reduced immunity, daytime drowsiness, poor performance, traffic accidents, falls, memory problems, and cognitive impairment. But lying awake in bed worrying about these possible consequences won't help. Inviting Sleep Have you ever climbed into bed exhausted after a stressful day, only to discover that your brain won't slow down? The events of the day just keep replaying like an endless movie. Figuring out how to let go of those worries can be challenging." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"About twice the number of Americans die due to infections acquired in hospitals each year as the number who die in traffic accidents. And each year, more than twice as many Americans die from the negative effects of prescription drugs as those who died in the Vietnam war. According to a recent report, an estimated 1,730,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur in America each year, and as many as 7,000 deaths.22 And not only exotic drugs are the culprits; common acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is the leading cause of death due to acute liver failure in the U.S." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"These studies show that, whenever attendance increases at an assembly of experts in Transcendental Meditation and the TM-Sidhi program, crime decreases, traffic accidents go down, and open warfare (if it is present) declines. The incidence of infectious disease has also been shown to fall. At the same time, the economy begins to improve—as measured by unemployment, inflation, stock market activity, gross domestic product, and other statistics. At first, it might seem impossible that a group of meditators in one spot could reduce accidents and illness hundreds of miles away." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"Alcohol-Related Traffic Accidents: Avoidable Deaths and Injuries According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: • There were 15,786 alcohol-related traffic deaths in the United States in 1999, a number that is 38 percent of the total traffic-related deaths for the year. • The 15,786 represents one fatal crash every 33 minutes. • About 308,000 people were injured in alcohol-related traffic accidents in 1999. That's an average of one person every 2 minutes. • About 1.4 million drivers were arrested in 1998 for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs." - Deborah R. Mitchell, The Home Healing Almanac: Solutions That Will Help You Make the Best Choices About Your Health and Safety (Get the book.)

"I •IATROGENIC DISEASES/Physician-induced illnesses Affect 1 in25 hospital patients out of 31 million admissions annually, killing four times the number of deaths from annual highway traffic accidents; a hidden, unspoken-of epidemic of surgical or drug errors, side effects, infections, misdiagnoses, incompetence, and negligence. Hundreds of mistakes occur every day in a major hospital and go unreported, uninvestigated, and uncompensated for. "Hospitals are hazardous, and medical care is dangerous, according to one Harvard University study." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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