The last theme: "The Bicentenary"

Good day my bloggers:
My generation has the privilege of living in a globalized and technological world that allow to get a lot of information about the past, what helps to rescue a part of the Chile’ history, I think. We know that our country has changed in several areas that involve politic, social, health, individual and even physical changes. Our common legacy has forced that we are today.

We have been witnesses more of a society change than a millennium or centenary change only.
In politic our contemporary are lived a transition from to be in a dictatorship to a democratic government. This landmark has brought with him political quarrel between the people. But it’s part to live in society, and in democracy it has to have variability and freedom to opine, and they are held up by laws and an informed people.
The above idea was importantly accompanied and influenced the concept of equity, which is reflected in an increasing number of people that accept women working, single parents, homosexual relations, different cultures, domestic violence, among others. All that is possible thanks a knowledge age with new technological development.
The technologic have allowed an evident advance in health area, decreasing the mortality, decreasing the mobility of some pathologies (because more diseases are included in GES, for example), increasing the life expectative and improving the possibility of treatment, among others. It’s interesting to mention that new pathologies have appeared in our contemporary age caused by our new way to live.
I mentioned that our country have had changes in individual and physical levels. I was referring specifically to the earthquake, the tsunami, and the event with the miners. I consider that they awake an important sense of patriotism and unity.

To conclude, I think the things always are changing and the Chilean society still have to improve, because the discrimination, the poverty, injustice and individualism are our obstacles to finish once and for all with the previous centenary.


I prefer to say "see you later".

I want to travel again!!!!

It's good to me leaving the daily routine, especially when I'm under stress. I take a travel like an opportunity to live new experiences, even if I have visited the place before. I like stay in home after the stressful university life, but when I recover I need to leave. Before a travel (espeacially when it's a new place that I'm going to visit) I get very anxious, even I usually don't sleep very well, but it doesn't matter.
The places that I prefer to visit are an environment which have contact with nature, because to see green spaces and hear the nature sounds relaxes me. I like the idea to travel across a forest, a hill, walking through the beach, to see the sunset, the clouds, hear the birds, the waves... they make me feel part of this world. Therefore, for that I try to avoid the crowd and the sounds of a city.
However, I don't reject the idea to visit a city. For example, I remember the time I went to Valparaíso with my friend, Mario. He was more exciting than me, because that time Queen Mary II, Minerva, Deutschland and Crystal Serenity (four enormous transatlantic ships) were coming and he loves that kind of things. The ships sets sail at evening, and we had arrived to Valparaíso very early, so we had time to tour around the city, before to see the ships disappear into the horizon. I had a real tourist guide at my side, so I knew big part of the city that day. Finally we saw the ships leave us.
The funniest part was when I tried to pass the photos to my computer, I don't know what happen, but all the photos were deleted. Those were the only proof that we were present that day in Valparaíso.
Well, it wasn't fun to Mario, he wanted to kill me. X_X (but we continue being best friends :D)

A movie is like thelife or the life is like a movie?

I like watch movies, they transport me to another reality and make me feel that I'm in the film.
I think my character I like the adventure and fantasy film, where there is a different world, where strange creatures and powerful beings and magic kingdoms and heroes and amazing things can exist.
Those films I prefer watch them accompanied with a person who enjoy it as much as I. And if the films have good effects I prefer to see it in a cinema.
I also like films that make you think and it shows difficult problems that a person may face in some point in their life. Those films have to have content, they have to do that I wonder things that I didn't wonder before and maybe teach me new something.
In this category I have "The most difficult decision", "Life is beautiful", "The boy in the striped pajamas", "Babel" and "The pursuit of happiness" among others. It's common these films make cry to the people. I remember my mother cried with "Life is beautiful" and "The boy in the striped pajamas", I don't remember to have cried by any movie.
I hate the predictable ends, the movie has to surprise me even if it isn't correct that a fact happen, for example that the bad guys win.
Some chilean movies are good in my opinion, I hate when they show too much sex scenes (when the most of times are unnecesary). I like some chilean movies because show me a nearby reality and criticize the shown society, for example "Pedro Machuca" and "El Gringuito" or when the movie show simple daily aspects of our life, for example "El Regalo" and "La vida de los peces".
Obiously I love the funny movies, because they make me feel better. And I like the movies that have effects really good, even if they are poor in content., for example "2012".
The only movie I think it left a trace upon me was "Delicatessen" a french movie lively in a Post-apocalyptic France. It was so harsh. "Tony Manero" had a similar effect in me.

Are there two brains?

More than once we have heard that a person are "left-brain" or right-brain" for her/his personality.
I want to clear that in fact our brain has two hemispheres, but they works linked through corpus callosum. It has been said that left-brain persons are rational, intellectual, logical, and have a good analytical sense and tend to be mathematicians, engineers, and researchers.
On the other hand, right-brain person are intuitive, emotional, imaginative, and easily find their way around and engage in the artistic and creative professions.

This idea was fed by the studies like Broca and Wernick studies (where it's said the left brain is related with comprehension and production of language), studies in split brains (where the corpus callosum was cut and the hemisphere were studies separately), Sperry et al studies (where it's discovered that the right-brain have importance in spatial vision, spatial orientation, recognizing familiar faces, and in the emotion of the language), and some school of though, without scientific evidence.

Also the tries of educationist to favor one or another hemisphere feed this idea; regardless that the two hemispheres work together, what has been shown in several studies.

I had heard this myth before, and I believed it because I had any idea of neurology and I think I was a left-brain person.
Now, I think it's clearly proven that even for simple task involve several areas of both hemispheres. We don't operate with separate functions, for example, when we hear a person talk about an emotional topic, we understand both the content and form; when we use the right hand we use information of both hemisphere to control the hand, see the object, predict our movement and think simultaneously.
Our brain is a powerful system that is capable to separate the information, to work it parallel, to process and to give a response, and we feel that like one thing.

I`m according with Dr. Maldonado: “If our brain were so simple that we could understand it, wewould be so simple that we couldn’t” – Pugh, 1977

Stop the world, please!!

Sometimes we have to face problems and not all of us respond in the same way. We are genetically programed to our body prepares itself to fight or flight, like any animal. The way that it prepares itself is stimulating the sympathetic nervous system wich increasing the heart and respiratory frequency, dilating pupil and bronquial tube, stimulating suprarenal glands and redistributing the blood to your limbs. This status was ideal when in the past we had to face with big animals or rival tribes but now it's another adaptation mechanism that bring us problem (like the obesity).

Each person has an threshold of stress, and can express or/and relieve it of varied ways. Today, the most common situations of stress are the job, the school, the public transport, unexpected situations, and any other that involve pressure. When those stimuli are constant (what often happen), it's added to the previously mentioned effects, such as headache, upset stomach, increase of acne, sexual dysfunction foul temper, muscular pain, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, inmunological derpression and psicological depression among other (this changes can be explained in part by cortisol hormone and its interactions). Complications like that produce a decrease in the labor efficiency and some companies have added anti-stress programs. It shows clearly why the stress have clinical relevance.

The farmacological treatment involve anxiolytics or tranquilizing like benzodiazepines.

On another hand, other treatment involve relaxation and respiratory techniques, cognitive-behavioral techniques, self-control techniques, electrical stimulation, acupuncture and massage.

Catharsis to me is the best way to relieve the stress, it can be shouting, hit a pillow, dancing, etc, only when don't affect your health or the health of another person.

Well, I hope you are not stressed.

Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy soul

These days we are surrounded by temptations that frequently lead us to bad habits. Bad habits may be defined like actions and behaviors that damage aour health in short or long term.

The most common bad habits for attraction and/or comfort are: to eat junk food frequently acompainied with soft drinks, to be sedentary, to smoke, to drink liqueurs, not wash your hands, among others. All these habits can produce us deseases such as hypertension, obesity, respiratory deseases (COPD), and predisposition to suffer traumatological deseases.

The way to prevent thoseproblems and to improve your healthy is, first avoid this habits and behaviors, and second to bring a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestayle involve have habits and beahviors that protect your body. They include: neither to smoke nor drink liqueurs, to do exercises and eat well.

It's proved that smoke and liqueurs lead to problems mainly in the liver, respiratory system and cardiovascular system mainly. They produce addction too and frequently they are consumed together.

There are several ways to do exercise. You can walk more or use a bike to move, change the time you use to watch TV for time to play with your family and to do axercises together, use stairs instead of mehanical stairs or elevator, become accustomed to execute a little rutine of exercises daily or every other day.

Finally, you have feed well, eating more fruits and vegetables in the breakfast, lunch and dinner; eating low fat, consuming foods lows in calories; and recall don't to eat in excess.

I hope you feel better.

My favourite get-away

The first place that come to my mind when I hear the word get-away is Santa Cruz. It's a comuna located in southern of Peralillo, west of San Fernando, in the sixth region. In that place my best friend, Verónica, grew up. I knew Verónica in "Preuniversitario", since I know her family too, because she bring me to Santa Cruz that summer. Her family lives a country life. The house is in a place called I"Isla de Guindo", there, Aunt Noe is in charge of it. She have a special mood, but I think she like me now. The house is very large with a lot of rooms within and it's very old too (paranormal phenomena have occurred there according to my friend).
Every time my friend can, take me there, generally in winter or summer holidays. I love that place because it's far of everything that stresses me during the year. In that place I can rest and clean my lungs with pure air and I can fill my stomach with country food. There is a river near of the house and it's perfect for the hot days of the summer.
There Verónica knows every body and every places, because it's a little town. Generally, we go with our another friends and we tour the museum, the casino, the bakery (where the administrator love my friend a lot and sometimes give us cakes or ice creams) and in the night we play cards.
We have lived several experiences there and I hope to go again soon.