Vasthu - Direction - Planets - Lord - Significnace

Direction	Elements	Planet	Lord	Significance
East	Fire	Sun	Indra	Growth of Family/ Life longevity/ Name + Fame
South East	Fire	Venus	Agni	Health and Sex
South	Earth/ Fire	Mars	Yama	Happiness & Success
South West	Earth	Rahu/ Ketu	Nriti Dev	Character, Head of Family, Strong ability & will power
West	Water	Saturn	Varuna	Reward Luck
North - West	Air	Moon	Vayu	Friends & Enemies, Communication & speed
North	Water	Mercury	Kubera	Money, Wealth, Mother, Maternal side
North - East	Water	Jupiter	Shiva	Knowledge wisdom, business Relationship, God blessing
Centre	Space		Bramha	All around prosperity

Planets - Astrology Exaltation and Debilitation

http://www.futurepointindia.com/articles/astrology/advancedastrology/exaltation-and-debilitation-of-planets.aspx

A simple story for remembering Exaltation and Debilitation of Planets in Astrology

Exaltation means being in high position, exhileration and strength. Debility means weakness, and humility .

The zodiac is the planetary cabinet. The first house or sign should be occupied by protocol by the King as the Ist citizen. Sun is the king of planetary cabinet. Hence he should be exalted on his thrown in the Ist sign Aries. A king enjoys power and position only when attended by the commander in chief Mars and the servant Saturn. Aries is the sign owned by Mars, the commander in chief of the planetary cabinet and Saturn the servant is debilitated (humbled) in Aries due to the authority of the King and the commander in chief. The King is attended on either side (Pisces and Taurus by Venus the courtesan and the Queen Moon).

The place next to the King shall go only to the Queen. Hence Moon is exalted in Taurus. Sun owns Leo and Moon owns Cancer and get exalted in Aries and Taurus respectively. Next to Queen no one can sit. Hence Gemini has neither exaltation or debilitation of any planet in it. Cancer is owned by the Queen (Queen's place) Moon. Jupiter is the preceptor and further has a respectable place in the Queen's palace when he visits Cancer. Hence Jupiter is exalted in Cancer. Mythologically Moon (as male disciple of Jupiter) has an episode with Tara, the wife of Jupiter, which culminated in the birth of a child Budha. Mars the commander in chief visits the Queen's palace to carry out the commands or run errands of the Queen. Hence he is debilitated in Cancer. In the King's palace of Leo no planet can be exalted. Hence free from exaltation or debilitation. Virgo is owned by Mercury. Mercury is the finance minister in the planetary cabinet hence exalted in Virgo. Venus the courtesan is debilitated in the house of the finance minister, personally visiting for financial aid.

Libra is owned by courtesan (damsel). When the king visits the court damsel, naturally he is accompanied by the servant Saturn. In the house of a damsel the king looses his authority. Hence is debilitated in Libra. The servant Saturn is the master of the situation (arranging meeting of Damsel Venus and King Sun) and is exalted. Scorpio is owned by Mars. When Moon the Queen visits the quarters of subordinate commander in chief, she is humbled. Hence is debilitated in Scorpio. In the mansion of the Guru Jupiter no planet is exalted or debilitated. Capricorn is the quarters of the servant and soldier Saturn. Mars visits the barracks of soldier. He the commander in chief visits with authority. Hence is exalted. Jupiter the preceptor and prime minister by visiting the quarters of a servant looses his dignity and status.

Hence Jupiter is debilitated in the house of Saturn - Capricorn Aquarius also is owned by Saturn. There is no debility or exaltation of planets in it. Pisces is owned by Jupiter. Venus, the damsel, being in the house of respected Jupiter in the proximity of the king In Pisces naturally has power hence is exalted. Finance Minister, and in the proximity of the king is subdued of his authority and hence is debilitated in Pisces.

This is one line of explanation of exaltation and debilitation of planets on the basis of planet politics.

Another simple Story.

Sun the the king of Planets is in Aries, Next to him is Queen in Taurus.  No one can sit next her, hence Gemini is blank.  Later, Rajaguru Jupiter is seated on Cancer (tortoise type) chair.  Next is the King's room, and hence no body can be there.  Next is the Daughter 's (kanya) room, where the youngest son, Mercury is exalted.  Next the office room/ Judiciary room (Libra), wherein the servant, Saturn  is cleaning.  Next you see Scorpio, sting or the jeep is for Military, where Mars exalts.  Finally the young attractive daughter of King, Venus is next to King on other side, at Pisces. 

Horoscope analysis of Divorced couple

http://horoscopeanswer.blogspot.in; http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.in

Basic Thumb rule for happy married life - Seen from Lagna - Moon, Venus, the 2nd, 7th, and 10th Lord must be in houses other than 6th, 8th and 12th Houses.  If they are in 2nd, 7th and 11th Houses, the couple will have very happy married life.

Analysis of Horoscope of Divorced Boy: 

Let us see the Planetary position of the Boy who might have to be avoided.  

1. The Lagna Lord getting debilitated, combusted by the Sun, moving in retrograde manner or gets Thithi Shunya.

2. The Lagna Lord staying in conjuction and aspect with 3rd, 6th, 8th and 12th house Lords.

3. The placement of Lagna Lord in the 3rd, 6th, 8th and 12th house.

4. The presence of any debilitated Planets in the Lagna.

5. The Presence of 3rd, 6th, 8th and 12th house lords in the Lagna.

6. The presence of Mars, Rahu, descending Moon and Saturn in the Lagna or association of these planets with the  Lagna Lord.

7. The presence of Mars in 6th, 7th and 8th house.

8. The combination of Mars and Venus in Lagna, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 12th house. In these days, Mars and Venus in Lagna and 7th could be deemed, due to change in environment. 

9. The combination of Moon and Venus in 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 12th house.

10. The combination of Sun and Venus in 2nd, 4th, 7th and 8th house.

11. The combination of Sun and Mars, Sun and Rahu in any house.

12. The combination of Saturn and Mars in any house.

13. The combination of descending Moon and Rahu in any house.

14. The association of Lagna Lord with 3rd house Lord.

15. The 11th house Lord stronger than 7th house Lord.

16. The 7th house lord getting debilitated or getting associated with 6th, 8th and 12th house lord.

17. The presence of 7th house lord in the 6th, 8th and 12th house.

18. The presence of 6th, 8th and 12th house lord in the 7th house.

19. The 7th house lord traversing through the Star that is owned by the 6th, 8th and 12th house lords.

20. The Lagna or 7th house lord getting affected by Vainasika Dosham.

21. The 7th house lord getting combusted by Sun or moving in a retrograde manner. 

22. Saturn aspect on 7th house or LL and Venus

23. If Venus is aspected either by Rahu or Ketu and by Saturn or Mars without any association or aspect by Jupiter, there is denial of marriage.


These are some of the important planetary position that would indicate that the Boy will be possesing some negative qualities. 

Analysis of Horoscope of Divorced Girl: 

1. The Debiltation of Lagna Lord and 4th house Lord.

2. The Presence of Lagna Lord and 4th house Lord in malefice house.

3. The Conjuction and aspection of Lagna and Lagna Lord with malefic planets.

4. The Lagna, 4th house Lord and the Lagna Lord getting afflicted by the deadly "Vainasika Dosha".

5. The presence of Raghu in the Lagna and 4th house; and association of Rahu with Lagna Lord.

6. The Combination of Sun and Mars in any house is considered highly inauspicious, especially 6th, 7th, 8th or 12th House, without any redemption by Jupiter either by aspect or association. 

7. The Combination of Mars and Venus in Lagna, 4th, 7th, 8th and 12th house is unwelcome. 

8. The Combination of Moon and Venus in Lagna, 4th, 7th and 10th house is considered inappropriate.

9. The Combination and aspection of Saturn and Mars is considered as "most unlucky". 

10. The presence of any debilitated planets in the Lagna and the 4th house. 

11. Sun-Mars combination is 6^th, 7^th or 8^th and 12^th houses without redemption by Jupiter either by aspect or association causes severe marriage dosha or separation. 

Creative Problem Solving

http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/Handbook/techniques/List/CPS.php

Osborn’s original classical brainstorming is the root of creative problem solving (CPS). There are a variety of general structures: ‘define problem, generate possible solutions, select and implement the best’ which can be found extensively, in several different academic traditions.

However, the account illustrate here was formulated by Sidney J. Parnes in the 1950’s and has been build upon continuously since then by various authors, e.g. Isakesen and Treffinger (1985) Isaksen, Dorval and Treffinger (1994 and 1998).

The method can be used as a training programme and has a very extensive track record linked particularly with the Centre for Studies in Creativity of the State University College at Buffalo, New York, the Buffalo Creative problem Solving Group, and with the Centre for Creative Learning in Sarasota, Florida.

In it’s most extended and formalised form it has the six stages shown below, each with a divergent and a convergent phase. However, more recent publications seem more interested in focusing on procedure and technique issues, with less weight on the full elaboration of this structure.

The following, based on Van Gundy (1988’s) description, is a very brief skeleton of a very rich process, showing it in its full ‘6 x 2 stages’ form:

1. Stage 1: Mess finding: Sensitise yourself (scan, search) for issues (concerns, challenges, opportunities, etc.) that need to be tackled.
   
   • Divergent techniques include ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…’ (WIBNI) and ‘Wouldn’t It Be Awful If…’ (WIBAI) – brainstorming to identify desirable outcomes, and obstacles to be overcome.
   • Convergent techniques include the identification of hotspots (Highlighting), expressed as a list of IWWMs (‘In What Ways Might…’), and selection in terms of ownership criteria (e.g. problem-owner’s motivation and ability to influence it) and outlook criteria (e.g. urgency, familiarity, stability).
2. Stage 2: Data finding: Gather information about the problem.
   
   • Divergent techniques include Five Ws and H (Who, Why, What, When, Where and How) and listing of wants, sources and data: List all your information ‘wants’ as a series of question; for each, list possible sources of answers; then follow these up and for each source, list what you found.
   • Convergent techniques again include: identifying hotspots (Highlighting); Mind-mapping to sort and classify the information gathered; and also restating the problem in the light of your richer understanding of it.
3. Stage 3: Problem finding: convert a fuzzy statement of the problem into a broad statement more suitable for idea finding.
   
   • Divergent techniques include asking ‘Why?’ etc. – the repeatable questions and Five Ws and H.
   • Convergent techniques include Highlighting again, reformulation of problem-statements to meet the criteria that they contain only one problem and no criteria, and selection of the most promising statement (but NB that the mental ‘stretching’ that the activity gives to the participants can be as important as the actual statement chosen).
4. Stage 4: Idea Finding: generate as many ideas as possible
   
   • Divergence using any of a very wide range of idea-generating techniques. The general rules of classical brainstorming (such as deferring judgement) are likely to under-pin all of these.
   • Convergence can again involve hotspots or mind-mapping, the combining of different ideas, and the short-listing of the most promising handful, perhaps with some thought for the more obvious evaluation criteria, but not over-restrictively.
5. Stage 5: Solution finding: Generate and select obvious evaluation criteria (using an expansion/contraction cycle) and develop (which may include combining) the short-listed ideas from Idea Finding as much as you can in the light of these criteria. Then opt for the best of these improved ideas (e.g. using Comparison tables).
6. Stage 6: Acceptance finding: How can the suggestion you have just selected be made up to standard and put into practice? Shun negativity, and continue to apply deferred judgement – problems are exposed to be solved, not to dishearten progress. Action plans are better developed in small groups of 2 – 3 rather than in a large group (unless you particularly want commitment by the whole group). Particularly for ‘people’ problems it is often worth developing several alternative action plans. Possible techniques include 

Amazing True Story - How help comes back to you helping you.

Amazing True Story

This is a true story that had happened in 1892 at Stanford University. It's moral is still relevant today.

A young, 18 year old student was struggling to pay his fees. He was an orphan, and not knowing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. A friend and he decided to host a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education.

They reached out to the great pianist Ignacy J. Paderewski. His manager demanded a guaranteed fee of $2,000 for the piano recital. A deal was struck. And the boys began to work to make the concert a success.

The big day arrived. Paderewski performed at Stanford. But unfortunately, they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total collection was only $1,600. Disappointed, they went to Paderewski and explained their plight. They gave him the entire $1,600, plus a cheque for the balance of $400. They promised to honour the cheque soonest possible.

"No" said Paderewski. "This is not acceptable" He tore up the cheque, returned the $1,600 and told the boys "Here's the $1,600. Please deduct whatever expenses you have incurred. Keep the money you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left" The boys were surprised, and thanked him profusely.

It was a small act of kindness. But it clearly marked out Paderewski as a great human being. Why should he help two people he did not even know? We all come across situations like these in our lives. And most of us only think "If I help them, what would happen to me?"

The truly great people think, "If I don't help them, what will happen to them?" They don't do it expecting something in return. They do it because they feel it's the right thing to do.

Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but unfortunately when the World War began, Poland was ravaged. There were over 1.5 million people starving in his country, and no money to feed them.

Paderewski did not know where to turn for help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help.

The head was a man called Herbert Hoover - who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and quickly shipped tons of food grains to fee the starving Polish people. A calamity was averted.

Paderewski was relieved. He decided to go across to meet Hoover and personally thank him. When Paderewski began to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover quickly interjected and said, "You shouldn't be thanking me, Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but several years ago, you helped two young students go through college in the US. I was one of them."

Make it a habit to help others. It is rightly said that you can achieve everything you want in life if only you help other people achieve what they want in their lives.

Do something unselfish today. Help someone! Just do it. And don’t expect anything in return. The world is a wonderful place. What goes around usually comes around.

Theory of Constraints + Change management

Theory of Constraints (TOC) provides a set of holistic processes and rules, all based on a systems approach that exploits the inherent simplicity within complex systems through focusing on the few "leverage points” as a way to synchronize the parts to achieve ongoing improvement in the performance of the system as a whole.

What prevents us from achieving the goal?

CONSTRAINTS – factors or elements that determine how much the system can accomplish.

Main types of constraints of a commercial system:

Capacity Constraint – a resource which cannot provide timely capacity the systems demands for it.

Market Constraint – the amount of customers’ orders is not sufficient to sustain the required growth of the system.

Time Constraint – The response time of the system to the requirement of the market is too long to the extent that it jeopardizes the system’s ability to meet its current commitment to its customers as well as the ability of winning new business.

THE FIVE FOCUSING STEPS OF TOC

1.       Identify (choose) the system’s constraint.

2.      Decide how to exploit the system’s constraint.

3.      Subordinate everything else to the above decision.

4.      Elevate the system’s constraint.

5.      If the constraint is broken go back to step one but do not allow Inertia to cause the system’s constraint.

TOC IS BASED ON 3 BASIC ASSUMPTIONS

Basic Assumption 1:

Everything within a system is connected by cause and effect relationships. Identification of the causes leads us to converge onto an apparent core problem/contradiction/conflict.

Manifestation: Search for a logical reasoning

The use of Cause & Effect relationships to structure our thinking, record our analysis and understand the suggested solution for any problem (based on Convergence)

Basic Assumption 2:

All contradictions can be resolved without compromise – our level of understanding and our assumptions hold the contradiction in place. A compromise is not usually a win-win solution.

Manifestation: Resolve conflicts

A strong belief that there should be no conceptual conflict within our reality – hence – striving to find a win-win solution to any perceived "no solution situation” (Local & Global)

Basic Assumption 3:

There is no resistance to improvement – people do not embrace change because we have not brought them to see the win for them.

Manifestation: Seek for collaboration and contribution

The use of TOC logical tools logic to communicate to ourselves and thereafter to the team with the view of working together to achieve the desired improvement (based on Respect)

The Leader of a system sees their role as to ever improve the performance of the system under their responsibility.

Improved performance is a result of implementing a new idea ("solution”) onto the existing system.

The manager who introduces the solution needs to know:

 1.     Which parts of the system are "erroneous” and have to be replaced

2.     The new parts must be introduced to replace the erroneous parts

3.     All the other parts of the system stay as they are!

Managers need a systematic approach to develop plans for the pursuit of a significant improvement of their systems. This systemic approach is about finding answers to the four questions of system improvement.

1.     WHAT to change?

  Pinpoint the core problem

2.     WHAT to change TO

  Construct simple practical solutions

3.     HOW to cause the change?

  Induce the proper people to make the change (to invent such solutions)

4.     What creates the process of ongoing improvement (POOGI)?

        Create a mechanism to determine what to improve next

 

Solution creation:

TOC enhances the ability of managers to develop or construct solutions for improving the performance of their systems. At the same time – TOC also enhances the ability to communicate the solution to the proper people that their support and collaborations is necessary for implementing the solution.

Answer these questions in this order:

1) State the change. Be very specific, what you are suggesting be changed?

2) What’s your alligator? What’s the negative of not changing? It is something bad or negative that exists today, and unless a change is made will not go away and will hurt you/us.

3) What’s your mermaid? What’s the positive to not changing for you? It is something good you/we have now, that because of your change you/we will likely lose.

4) What’s your pot of gold? What’s the positive to making the change for you? It is something good you/we don’t have now, but you/we want, and you think we can get if the change is made.

5) What’s your crutch? What the negative to making the change for you? It is something bad (for you/we) that doesn't exist today, but can and most likely will happen if the change is made.

100 Benefits of Mediatation

100 Benefits of Meditation

Physiological benefits:

1. It lowers oxygen consumption.

2. It decreases respiratory rate.

3. It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.

4. Increases exercise tolerance.

5. Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.

6. Good for people with high blood pressure.

7. Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.

8. Decreases muscle tension

9. Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.

10. Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.

11. Helps in post-operative healing.

12. Enhances the immune system.

13. Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress

14. Enhances energy, strength and vigor.

15. Helps with weight loss

16. Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage

17. Higher skin resistance

18. Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.

19. Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.

20. Decreases the aging process.

21. Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)

22. Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases

23. Makes you sweat less

24. Cure headaches & migraines

25. Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning

26. Reduced Need for Medical Care

27. Less energy wasted

28. More inclined to sports, activities

29. Significant relief from asthma

30. Improved performance in athletic events

31. Normalizes to your ideal weight

32. Harmonizes our endocrine system

33. Relaxes our nervous system

34. Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity

35. Helps cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release 

of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:

36. Builds self-confidence.

37. Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.

38. Resolve phobias & fears

39. Helps control own thoughts

40. Helps with focus & concentration

41. Increase creativity

42. Increased brain wave coherence.

43. Improved learning ability and memory.

44. Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.

45. Increased emotional stability.

46. Improved relationships

47. Mind ages at slower rate

48. Easier to remove bad habits

49. Develops intuition

50. Increased Productivity

51. Improved relations at home & at work

52. Able to see the larger picture in a given situation

53. Helps ignore petty issues

54. Increased ability to solve complex problems

55. Purifies your character

56. Develop will power

57. Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres

58. Respond more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.

59. Increases ones perceptual ability and motor performance

60. Higher intelligence growth rate

61. Increased job satisfaction

62. Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones

63. Decrease in potential mental illness

64. Better, more sociable behaviour

65. Less aggressiveness

66. Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction

67. Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals

68. Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation

69. Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia

70. Increases sense of responsibility

71. Reduces road rage

72. Decrease in restless thinking

73. Decreased tendency to worry

74. Increases listening skills and empathy

75. Helps make more accurate judgments

76. Greater tolerance

77. Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways

78. Grows a stable, more balanced personality

79. Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:

80. Helps keep things in perspective

81. Provides peace of mind, happiness

82. Helps you discover your purpose in life

83. Increased self-actualization.

84. Increased compassion

85. Growing wisdom

86. Deeper understanding of yourself and others

87. Brings body, mind, and spirit in harmony

88. Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation

89. Increased acceptance of one self

90. Helps learn forgiveness

91. Changes attitude toward life

92. Creates a deeper relationship with your God

93. Increases the synchronicity in your life

94. Greater inner-directedness

95. Helps living in the present moment

96. Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love

97. Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego

98. Experience an inner sense of Assurance or Knowingness

99. Experience a sense of Oneness

100. Leads to enlightenment