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How Far Can A Sneeze Travel? - Duration: 3:05.
Narrator: Are you sick?
Don't you dare sneeze on me.
Do you know how far your germs can travel?
Normally you hold about half a liter of fluid
in your lungs, so when you sneeze,
you're able to spray as much as a water bottle's worth
of mucus into the air around you.
It shoots out of your mouth
in the form of moist, germ-infested clouds
traveling up to 35 meters per second.
That's fast enough to give you a speeding ticket
on the highway.
Once that cloud hits the air,
it expands, breaking up into snotty strings,
then a series of different-sized droplets
all trapped in a turbulent gas cloud.
One brave group at MIT discovered
that the biggest droplets can travel up to two meters,
about the distance between your desk and two desks away.
But most other droplets,
those travel much farther, up to eight meters.
That's about five desks away.
Not only that, the germ-infested gas cloud
is less dense than the air around it,
so it rises upwards
right to where ventilation systems
and other people's unsuspecting noses and mouths await.
Even though these are relatively smaller droplets,
they're probably still teeming with harmful pathogens
like the flu virus.
Even worse, depending on the ventilation,
they can spread through a room in just a few seconds
and remain suspended for up to 10 minutes.
Now, if you happen to notice someone around you sneeze
or cough, you can hold your breath
as you move out of range.
But during the flu season,
that might not even be enough
because there are danger zones everywhere
especially on surfaces like desks, doorknobs
and steel handrails.
It turns out the flu virus has been found to survive
for 24 hours on a steel surface,
and if you touch that surface
and don't wash your hands before eating,
you may have just gotten infected.
So, let's say you go into work sick with the flu one day
and you start to sneeze.
Now, according to one study,
you'll probably only infect one to two other people.
You're clearly showing symptoms of the flu.
However, it's gonna take a few days
for symptoms to show up in other people you've infected,
so those poor souls unknowingly also come into work sick
over the next few days,
and they will potentially infect one to two more people.
In an office of 100 desks,
this could mean 10 or 15 sick people
by the end of two weeks.
That's over 10% of the office.
And all of it started with just one sick person. You.
All thanks to the germ-laden cloud
you so generously shared.
So, the next time you're not feeling great
and you're sneezing up a storm,
just think about your poor coworkers,
and take a sick day for yourself and for them.
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Sadhguru - How much you should sleep ? - Duration: 10:35.
Sehwag: Namaskaram Sadhguru!
I want to know truth about sleeping right, whether duration or direction.
What is the science behind it?
Sadhguru: Namaskaram Veeru!
About sleep – sleep is a state of restfulness.
Most human beings know sleep as the deepest state of restfulness, but it need not be so.
There are yogic processes where a far deeper states of restfulness can be achieved,
by dropping the metabolic activity to a very low level.
But for most human beings, sleep is the most profound restful state.
In restfulness, let's not take attitudes the best state of restfulness happens to you
when you are in a state of abandon.
So when it comes to sleep, do not think what position and how to sleep.
Being in a state of total abandon is the best way to sleep.
But you also mentioned direction.
When it comes to direction, because of the magnetic pull of the North
Pole, if you put your head to the North in the Northern
hemisphere, there is a tendency for putting pressure upon
your brain.
We know this by experience, but it's been studied and identified that
there is a natural movement of blood towards the brain,
if you put your head towards the North in the Northern hemisphere.
As you know, if you are anemic, your doctor will prescribe you with iron,
so if there is that much iron in your blood, the magnetic poles naturally pull it,
and also the spin of the planet affects it.
So, it's best, especially the older people should not put their head to the north and
sleep, because it'll create a certain pressure.
It is possible, because of this excessive pressure, in older people it could cause hemorrhages.
More than anything, it'll lead to disturbed sleep.
So it is best not to put the head to the North in the Northern hemisphere, but otherwise,
you should not take any other attitude towards sleep.
Sleep should happen in total abandon, that's the best way to be in a state of restfulness.
It's not only during sleep, if you are in a state of abandon in your activity,
you will find your activity itself is restfulness, and the sleep quota will come down dramatically.
There is no prescription of how much you should sleep.
Let the body decide how much you should sleep, that's a best way to go.
But if you manage your food, your mental attitudes, your emotional tranquility well,
you will see the sleep quota will come down dramatically.
If you bring yogic practices, you can further bring down sleep quota quite significantly,
so that you have more time to live.
Questioner: Could you please say something about insomnia?
I've been suffering insomnia for nearly six years.
So, could you give me some feasible instructions?
Sadhguru: Insomnia may be occurring for various reasons.
There are some people who are sleeping well but they don't know that they are sleeping
well (Laughs).
There are some people who are not able to sleep well
because maybe their body needs a certain amount of rest
and they believe it needs more, so they are just working themselves up.
I've met so many people who are quite okay, but they think they are not sleeping enough
because doctor's prescription of eight hours, they
are not sleeping, they are sleeping only four hours.
They are well, it's okay.
If you're well, you are not sleep deprived and you're sleeping three-four hours a day,
it's perfectly fine, that's a good condition to be in.
Or there are people who are unable to sleep because of their psychological situations.
There are certain people who are not able to sleep
because of their cellular or genetic situation.
Only if you are like that, it's a… it's a hard thing to fix, which
you are not, okay?
(Sadhguru Laughs) You are not genetically in that state.
Or in a cellular way, your body cells will not allow you to sleep
for some reason, there are many reasons as to why.
So, if you're not able to sleep, I think you should join our garden department
(Laughter).
Entire day, ten hours a day you work outside (Gestures),
you'll fall asleep (Laughs), very...
If that doesn't work, the simpler way is,
if you get initiated into Shoonya meditation The Shambhavi should do it.
For most people, Shambhavi does this.
If it did not work for you, if you're initiated into Shoonya mediation,
you will see it'll correct the… the sleep disorder,
if there is a sleep disorder.
You're looking quite fine and happy.
And if you are happy not sleeping, it's great (Laughter).
Yes, because sleep is death.
Every day, people are dying for six hours or eight hours or four hours.
What's your choice?
Less death or more death per day?
Participants: Less.
Sadhguru: Less death is good, isn't it?
Only if it's causing health problems, you're distressed,
then … See, if you're going like this at work time
that your machine is not smooth Sleep is a kind of lubrication tool for the
system, not enough sleep means everything becomes
frictious within you.
So, if such frictious situations are happening, there are things to do.
One thing is there's Chandrakund here, stay there fifteen-twenty minutes every day,
you will see the body will cool down, it'll be well-lubricated
and you will see the frictious nature of your mind and body will go.
Afte…
If that is gone, how long you sleep is not a issue,
not at all.
Not every human being needs to sleep for the same period of time,
it's a very wrong notion.
Different people need different levels of sleep
and one aspect of yoga or one focus of yoga is to how to reduce sleep
because sleep is skipping life, isn't it?
People say, "I enjoy sleep."
Nobody can enjoy sleep.
You enjoy the restfulness that sleep gives you.
There is no way to enjoy life (sleep?) because in sleep both you and the world are
obliterated, that is if you are really sleeping.
So, early morning 05:30, you're pretending to sleep -
that may be joy, that may be a pleasure, I understand that (Laughter).
When the bell is ringing, you are just pretending to sleep – that's
a pleasure, I cannot deny that (Laughs).
But when you're really sleeping, you don't know what it is,
you are not even there.
So you cannot enjoy sleep but the result of sleep is something we enjoy.
What sleep does to us in terms of relaxation, in terms of restfulness,
in terms of regeneration of the system – that we enjoy.
So if your regeneration is really good, it may so happen the volume of sleep that
you need will come down dramatically.
There is one aspect...
I think the other day, somebody was asking me about the pineal gland
If the pineal secretions increase, these are…
This is generally in India it's called amrutha or the elixir of life.
If amrutha begins to flow, one thing that'll happen is sleep will go
down because sleep is death.
If on a certain day, it flows too much, you can't sleep at all,
this is a normal thing.
So, for whatever reason you're sleeping or not sleeping or not sleeping enough,
if that's a issue, you check in the morning how you are.
If you're feeling wonderful and you're active through the day,
forget about sleep.
If you can go without sleep and you are very well, what's the problem?
Well, that won't happen right now but if it happens, what is the issue, I'm
asking?
Only if you don't know how to handle life, you want to sleep twelve hours a day, isn't
it?
It's a way of escaping.
If you're intending to sleep long without purpose,
in a way it's a suicide.
You need the rest and you sleep, that's fine,
body needs rest.
So, either garden department or Shoonya meditation, one of these things will find solution for
you (Laughs).
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How Much Will I Get for a Workers' Compensation Claim? - Duration: 1:18.
What you have to remember is that the claim is usually dealing with your employer's insurance
company, not your employer.
Okay?
And in workers' compensation, it's far more direct.
It's straight with your employer's insurance company.
And just like when you're in an auto accident, the person that hit you might be a nice person,
but the insurance company is looking out for themselves.
Right.
They're not looking out for you.
Yeah.
In workers' compensation, the workers' compensation insurance company, they're looking out for
themselves.
They're not looking out for you.
Yeah.
And that's why you need to consult an attorney, is to make sure you're being looked after.
And it's very important because in workers' compensation you're talking about your ongoing
income.
That doesn't just affect you, that affects your family, your kids, yours kid's education.
Your entire livelihood.
Right.
So workers' compensation is extremely important.
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