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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="BaljinderS" data-source="post: 161541" data-attributes="member: 17067"><p><img src="http://litemind.simplusmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/boost-brain-power.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.</p><p></p><p>Solve puzzles and brainteasers.</p><p>Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.</p><p>Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.</p><p>Learn mind mapping.</p><p>Block one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, wear earplugs, shower with your eyes closed.</p><p>Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer, cheese or anything else.</p><p>Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics.</p><p>Learn to use different keyboard layouts. Try Colemak or Dvorak for a full mind twist!</p><p>Find novel uses for common objects. How many different uses can you find for a nail? 10? 100?</p><p>Reverse your assumptions.</p><p>Learn creativity techniques.</p><p>Go beyond the first, ‘right’ answer.</p><p>Transpose reality. Ask “What if?” questions.</p><p>SCAMPER!</p><p>Turn pictures or the desktop wallpaper upside down.</p><p>Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies.</p><p>Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles.</p><p>Get familiar with the scientific method.</p><p>Draw. Doodle. You don’t need to be an artist.</p><p>Think positive.</p><p>Engage in arts — sculpt, paint, play music — or any other artistic endeavor.</p><p>Learn to juggle.</p><p>Eat ‘brain foods’.</p><p>Be slightly hungry.</p><p>Exercise!</p><p>Sit up straight.</p><p>Drink lots of water.</p><p>Deep-breathe.</p><p>Laugh!</p><p>Vary activities. Get a hobby.</p><p>Sleep well.</p><p>Power nap.</p><p>Listen to music.</p><p>Conquer procrastination.</p><p>Go technology-less.</p><p>Look for brain resources in the web.</p><p>Change clothes. Go barefoot.</p><p>Master self-talk.</p><p>Simplify!</p><p>Play chess or other board games. Play via Internet (particularly interesting is to play an ongoing game by e-mail).</p><p>Play ‘brain’ games. Sudoku, crossword puzzles or countless others.</p><p>Be childish!</p><p>Play video games.</p><p>Be humorous! Write or create a joke.</p><p>Create a List of 100.</p><p>Have an Idea Quota.</p><p>Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank.</p><p>Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals.</p><p>Engage in ‘theme observation’. Try to spot the color red as many times as possible in a day. Find cars of a particular make. Invent a theme and focus on it.</p><p>Keep a journal.</p><p>Learn a foreign language.</p><p>Eat at different restaurants – ethnic restaurants specially.</p><p>Learn how to program a computer.</p><p>Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC</p><p>Change your environment. Change the placement of objects or furniture — or go somewhere else.</p><p>Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog.</p><p>Learn sign language.</p><p>Learn a musical instrument.</p><p>Visit a museum.</p><p>Study how the brain works.</p><p>Learn to speed-read.</p><p>Find out your learning style.</p><p>Dump the calendar!</p><p>Try to mentally estimate the passage of time.</p><p>“Guesstimate”. Are there more leaves in the Amazon rainforest or neuron connections in your brain? (answer).</p><p>Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’.</p><p>Build a Memory Palace.</p><p>Learn a peg system for memory.</p><p>Have sex! (sorry, no links for this one! )</p><p>Memorize people’s names.</p><p>Meditate. Cultivate mindfulness and an empty mind.</p><p>Watch movies from different genres.</p><p>Turn off the TV.</p><p>Improve your concentration.</p><p>Get in touch with nature.</p><p>Do mental math.</p><p>Have a half-speed day.</p><p>Change the speed of certain activities. Go either super-slow or super-fast deliberately.</p><p>Do one thing at a time.</p><p>Be aware of cognitive biases.</p><p>Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it?</p><p>Adopt an attitude of contemplation.</p><p>Take time for solitude and relaxation.</p><p>Commit yourself to lifelong learning.</p><p>Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles.</p><p>Adopt a genius. (Leonardo is excellent company!)</p><p>Have a network of supportive friends.</p><p>Get competitive.</p><p>Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.</p><p>Brainstorm!</p><p>Change your perspective. Short/long-term, individual/collective.</p><p>Go to the root of the problems.</p><p>Collect quotes.</p><p>Change the media you’re working on. Use paper instead of the computer; voice recording instead of writing.</p><p>Read the classics.</p><p>Develop your reading skill. Reading effectively is a skill. Master it.</p><p>Summarize books.</p><p>Develop self-awareness.</p><p>Say your problems out loud.</p><p>Describe one experience in painstaking detail.</p><p>Learn Braille. You can start learning the floor numbers while going up or down the elevator.</p><p>Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways.</p><p>Try different perfumes and scents.</p><p>Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender scent sound?</p><p>Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too.</p><p>Use time boxing.</p><p>Allocate time for brain development.</p><p>Have your own mental sanctuary.</p><p>Be curious!</p><p>Challenge yourself.</p><p>Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day.</p><p>Take notes of your dreams. Keep a notebook by your bedside and record your dreams first thing in the morning or as you wake up from them.</p><p>Learn to lucid dream.</p><p>Keep a lexicon of interesting words. Invent your own words.</p><p>Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts.</p><p>Manage stress.</p><p>Get random input. Write about a random word in a magazine. Read random sites using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia.</p><p>Take different routes each day. Change the streets you follow to work, jog or go back home.</p><p>Install a different operating system on your computer.</p><p>Improve your vocabulary.</p><p>Deliver more than what’s expected.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://litemind.com/boost-brain-power/" target="_blank">http://litemind.com/boost-brain-power/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BaljinderS, post: 161541, member: 17067"] [IMG]http://litemind.simplusmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/boost-brain-power.jpg[/IMG] Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential. Solve puzzles and brainteasers. Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork. Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions. Learn mind mapping. Block one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, wear earplugs, shower with your eyes closed. Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer, cheese or anything else. Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics. Learn to use different keyboard layouts. Try Colemak or Dvorak for a full mind twist! Find novel uses for common objects. How many different uses can you find for a nail? 10? 100? Reverse your assumptions. Learn creativity techniques. Go beyond the first, ‘right’ answer. Transpose reality. Ask “What if?” questions. SCAMPER! Turn pictures or the desktop wallpaper upside down. Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies. Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles. Get familiar with the scientific method. Draw. Doodle. You don’t need to be an artist. Think positive. Engage in arts — sculpt, paint, play music — or any other artistic endeavor. Learn to juggle. Eat ‘brain foods’. Be slightly hungry. Exercise! Sit up straight. Drink lots of water. Deep-breathe. Laugh! Vary activities. Get a hobby. Sleep well. Power nap. Listen to music. Conquer procrastination. Go technology-less. Look for brain resources in the web. Change clothes. Go barefoot. Master self-talk. Simplify! Play chess or other board games. Play via Internet (particularly interesting is to play an ongoing game by e-mail). Play ‘brain’ games. Sudoku, crossword puzzles or countless others. Be childish! Play video games. Be humorous! Write or create a joke. Create a List of 100. Have an Idea Quota. Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank. Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals. Engage in ‘theme observation’. Try to spot the color red as many times as possible in a day. Find cars of a particular make. Invent a theme and focus on it. Keep a journal. Learn a foreign language. Eat at different restaurants – ethnic restaurants specially. Learn how to program a computer. Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC Change your environment. Change the placement of objects or furniture — or go somewhere else. Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog. Learn sign language. Learn a musical instrument. Visit a museum. Study how the brain works. Learn to speed-read. Find out your learning style. Dump the calendar! Try to mentally estimate the passage of time. “Guesstimate”. Are there more leaves in the Amazon rainforest or neuron connections in your brain? (answer). Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’. Build a Memory Palace. Learn a peg system for memory. Have sex! (sorry, no links for this one! ) Memorize people’s names. Meditate. Cultivate mindfulness and an empty mind. Watch movies from different genres. Turn off the TV. Improve your concentration. Get in touch with nature. Do mental math. Have a half-speed day. Change the speed of certain activities. Go either super-slow or super-fast deliberately. Do one thing at a time. Be aware of cognitive biases. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it? Adopt an attitude of contemplation. Take time for solitude and relaxation. Commit yourself to lifelong learning. Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles. Adopt a genius. (Leonardo is excellent company!) Have a network of supportive friends. Get competitive. Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you. Brainstorm! Change your perspective. Short/long-term, individual/collective. Go to the root of the problems. Collect quotes. Change the media you’re working on. Use paper instead of the computer; voice recording instead of writing. Read the classics. Develop your reading skill. Reading effectively is a skill. Master it. Summarize books. Develop self-awareness. Say your problems out loud. Describe one experience in painstaking detail. Learn Braille. You can start learning the floor numbers while going up or down the elevator. Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways. Try different perfumes and scents. Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender scent sound? Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too. Use time boxing. Allocate time for brain development. Have your own mental sanctuary. Be curious! Challenge yourself. Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day. Take notes of your dreams. Keep a notebook by your bedside and record your dreams first thing in the morning or as you wake up from them. Learn to lucid dream. Keep a lexicon of interesting words. Invent your own words. Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts. Manage stress. Get random input. Write about a random word in a magazine. Read random sites using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia. Take different routes each day. Change the streets you follow to work, jog or go back home. Install a different operating system on your computer. Improve your vocabulary. Deliver more than what’s expected. [url]http://litemind.com/boost-brain-power/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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