La mirada del viento, por Lourdes Vicente.

La mirada del viento.

De la urgencia de aprender a mirar

con otros ojos.

Sala Carme Teatre, 11 Julio 2020.

I Encuentro del Laboratorio de Creación Poética 

que dirige el poeta David Trashumante 

en Bibliocafé (València)

Que fluya el aire.

💜

Anchors.

What are anchor thoughts?

                                           

Do you recognise any negative anchors in your life?

What positive anchors work on you ?

Practice makes perfect.

Friday.

♥️

Time management, a matter of priorities.

Things I'm learning these days:

For you to plan/priorize:

Good luck!

💚

Mental loops.

Stuck in a loop :

"to get in a situation in which there is no way- out in which the same things keep repeating themselves over and over again following the same order or process"

We are not our thoughts.

Our thoughts do not define us.

Get out of the loop.

Enjoy your weekend.

💗

Body language and coherence.

"Body language refers to the nonverbal signals that you use to communicate your feelings and intentions. It includes your posture, your facial expressions and your hand gestures."

Is your body language coherent with your words ?

The body speaks what the words can't tell.

Saying  the same things with body and voice has something to do with coherence 

and makes communication more effective.

Have a lovely day.

💜

Do-Say-Feel-Think.

People do what they see ,

your life is the message.

 

[Author: Imraan Aziz]

find your balance

find your way

💜

Evolve.

                 What you resist, persists

                 What you accept, transforms

→ about the concepts :

accept: https://www.wordreference.com/synonyms/accept

             https://www.wordreference.com/definition/accept

resist:  https://www.wordreference.com/synonyms/resist

            https://www.wordreference.com/definition/resist

                                          have a lovely day

                                                     

                                                    💛

#BlackLivesMatter

#stopracism

#BlackOutTuesday

Time to influence positive change.

#TheShowMustBePaused

All my love

💜

Fearful ?

Facing/Overcoming the fear of loss / losing:

step 1 → raising awareness

step 2 → raising your vibration (your positive energy)

 some ideas by the Chopra Center to raise your vibration: 

https://chopra.com/articles/a-complete-guide-to-raise-your-vibration

step 3 → finding your way to take action

Stay alert.

♥️

Mental focus.

What you pay attention to,

grows.

.

Thanks for Being with me.

♥️

We are one.

We are energy.

                                                     

Conceptual photography by Drooke DiDonato

[ surrealistic and magnetic ]

About the author: http://www.brookedidonato.com/

♥️

minimalism

less is more

minimalism

"We define minimalism as the process of identifying what is essential in your life  and eliminating the rest"

"Minimalism is about living with intentionality"

[source : https://theminimalistvegan.com/what-is-minimalism/]

less doing  more being

Feeling stuck?

[feeling stuck = being trapped in something ]

Phil Parker, a British osteopath, talks about the LP (Lightning Process).

The LP is a personal training (not treatment) programme beneficial for :

chronic fatigue syndrome

depression

chronic pain

people who are stuck, in general terms

some notes from the speech:

➤ mind - brain - body connection 

          * physical illness can be produced by how we use our brain

          * your brain influences your body

➤ The words you tell to yourself matter.

➤ The LP converts people from the stuckness to becoming "doers".

➤ From "passive statements" (the victim mentality) to the "dô" (break the facts and take control of the situation)

             e.g.    I'm stressed                 ➝    the  situation is X and   I'm" dôing" stress

                       (unconscious, unintentional)                            (conscious, intentional)

                       out of your control                                            break the state of facts

source: https://www.pinterest.com.mx/pin/309692911856028185/

take care

♥️

"Well - being is a skill"

A neuroscientific perspective on well-being by Richard Davidson :

(add subtitles in English is you wish to)

Some notes taken from the speech:

➤ neuroplasticity : the brain changes in response to experience and in response to training.

                                 ➞ we can shape our brains for the good.

➤ the bi-directional highways between the brain and the body.
                                  ➝ cultivating well-being through transforming our mind will
                                       change the brain in ways that can impact the body.

➤ we come into the world with innate basic goodness.
                                  ➝ cultivate kindness and compassion.

➽ The four constituents of well-being:

1. Resilience : 

     - rapidly recover from adversity  ➙ regulated from training

2. Tha ability to have a background glow of positive emotions.

3. Generosity.

4. Attention.

and

take care 

wherever you are.

♥️

     

Fearlessness.

Life always ends up making its way.

                                        Photographer: Consuelo Martínez

We learn fear, all kinds of fears :

Fear (v)

1. fear [death, failure, loneliness]
2. feared for [my life, their safety, her wellbeing, you]
3. fear to [think, imagine, go, lose]
4. fear to [say, ask, tread]
5. feared that you had [left, died, drowned]
6. feared being [left, drowned, attacked]
7. fear [the consequences, a backlash]
8. (he) fears [no one, nobody]
9. feared (that) he [might, would, could]
10. I fear I will [fail, not be able to]
11. I fear not
12. fear the worst (has happened)
13. feared and [hated, respected, revered, loathed, avoided]
14. [you have, there is] nothing to fear
15. fear not!

                              [ Source:  https://www.wordreference.com/EnglishCollocations/fear ]

But

                                              Life always ends up making its way.

                                                                          

                                                                  Stay safe 

                                                                         💛

Flores de hielo. Un poema de Lourdes Vicente.

                                           

[fuente inspiración de la imagen: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/605312006155282137/]

Entre las flores te fuiste.

                                                                                                                Entre las flores me quedo.          

   Miguel Hernández

A los que marcharon sin flores.

Y a los que se quedaron también.

                                                                                                                                                                     Marzo 2020

Flores de hielo

nadie nos dijo que

la primavera  traería

flores de hielo

ni que los pájaros anidarían

días sin final

entre abrazos fumigados y

besos  infectados de miedo

escoltados por adioses sin mano

desfilaban los muertos

mientras los vivos deshojaban

pétalos de fuego

la maldición de la distancia

nos negó el tacto del último adiós

nadie nos dijo que

mariposas  de cristal

preñarían

el  polen de ceniza que

fecundo de luz           

caería 

sobre los ojos del mundo

nadie dijo qué

todo es silencio que palpa el aire                

Lourdes Vicente                      

               

"We have lost the way"

Charlie Chaplin's speech from "The Great Dictator"

 

Stay safe.

💛

Holding uncertainty.

What if the Universe is totally uncertain ?

Is everything entangled in the universe ?

Entanglement refers to the fact that "particles are always connected and can behave as one"

source: [://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement]

                                           " The surprising power of uncertainty "

A lot to think about.

💚

Going further.

During the celebration of  International Women's Day on March 8th, 2020 I read , with some students, a bit of poetry and prose.

A vivid memory which  I wanted to share with you.

Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine.
They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

Jack Kerouac

Brindemos por las locas, por las inadaptadas

por las rebeldes, por las alborotadoras,

por las que no encajan, por las que ven las cosas de una manera diferente. No les gustan las reglas y no respetan el statu quo.

Puedes alabarlas, no estar de acuerdo con ellas, citarlas, cuestionarlas, glorificarlas o vilipendiarlas. Pero lo que no puedes hacer es ignorarlas.

Porque cambian las cosas. Inventan. Imaginan. Sanan. Exploran. Crean. Inspiran. Empujan adelante la raza humana.

Puede que tengan que estar locas.  [ ... ] Mientras algunos las ven como  locas, nosotros vemos el genio.

Porque las únicas que se creen tan locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo, son                      las que lo hacen.

Jack Kerouac

[American novelist and poet (1922-1969), pioneer of the Beat Generation (1950)  – On the road.]

         [Some notes about Jack Kerouac  → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac]

  

"To the ones who see things differently",

have a serene day

Lourdes 💛

                                                           

Alternatives to confinement.

"Silence is a source of  great strength"

               ∼ Lao Tzu 

Take care of you/others.

Lourdes 💛

"Everything will be fine."

Since I saw this illustration by the Spanish illustrator @72kilos two weeks ago,  

I constantly tell to myself this kind of personal mantra:

Everything will be fine

I've got the feeling that if everything goes well ,

everything will change for the better.

It's time to inspire positive change and to build the new.

If not now, then when ?

Lots of love,

Lourdes

Socrates.

Socrates' triple filter test:

👇

Avoid negative vibes of toxic people.

Now more than ever.

All my love,

Lourdes  💛

Heart coherence.

Confined to heart  /  Confined heart.

                                                    Source: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/605312006154297800/

Suggest a caption for this photograph :

💭✏📄

Note

"Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs" 

            ➤source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_caption

"Silence is a great source of stength."

              - Lao Tzu

Stay safe.

Lourdes

"This too will pass"

Everything will be fine


To you, dear Reader

On Fiday December, 27th I wrote my last post. It was a long time ago...

Now I am confined to home * as one billion people around the world due to the global coronavirus pandemic. We weren't ready for this, were we ?

These days, I heard a beautiful and thoughtful story which refers to the idea of impermanence : 

"This too will pass".

If you have time you can read some news about the coronavirus crisis to learn English: 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/22/world/science-health-world/global-coronavirus-toll-nears-13000/#.XndNXYhKjIU

                       
Notes:
*  [meaning of "confine" https://www.lexico.com/definition/confine ]

Stay focused and keep in touch.

Bye for now,

Lourdes