Anchors.

What are anchor thoughts?

                                           

Do you recognise any negative anchors in your life?

What positive anchors work on you ?

Practice makes perfect.

Friday.

♥️

#BlackLivesMatter

#stopracism

#BlackOutTuesday

Time to influence positive change.

#TheShowMustBePaused

All my love

💜

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.

♥️

     

Make friends with reality by Emily Levine.

I have never experienced death so 

I've no idea of what it is like

but

listening to this wise woman

this very early morning

one thought came to my mind:

the way we face life , 

 the way we confront death

What do you think ?

💭

Are you a good listener ?

"We are losing our listening."

💭  5 ways to listen better by Julian Treasure:

1. silence

2. the mixer

3. savouring

4. listening positions: 

     - active / passive

     - reductive / expansive

     - critical / empathetic

5. acronym RASA:

     Receive

     Appreciate

     Summarise

     Ask

→ Teaching "listening" in our schools as a skill. 💛

Greta Thunberg on climate crisis.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist.

She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and selected mutism when she was 11 years old.

She says she only speaks whenever it's necessary.

This is really a remarkable talk appealing to us to take action.

"The rules have to be changed"

Equity / Climate justice

                                          
                                     "You are never too small to make a difference"
                                              

What a woman of

strength

courage and

dignity 

you are.

"Be kind" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

 

we are always asked

to understand the other person's

viewpoint

no matter how

out-dated

foolish or

obnoxious.

one is asked

to view

their total error

their life-waste

with

kindliness,

especially if they are

aged.

but age is the total of

our doing.

they have aged

badly

because they have

lived

out of focus,

they have refused to

see.

not their fault?

whose fault?

mine?

I am asked to hide

my viewpoint

from them

for fear of their

fear.

age is no crime

but the shame

of a deliberately

wasted

life

among so many

deliberately

wasted

lives

is. 

#sharepoetry

Travel across boundaries.

                                                                 A DNA journey ? 
                                                            What is the metaphor ?


keep in touch, 
dear citizens of the world...
:-)

"Go all the way" by Charles Bukowski

"go all the way" 

synonyms?

 antonyms ?

check at http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/go%20all%20the%20way

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

"Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He died of leukemia."

                                                                                  (source: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski)

Bluebird

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I'm not going

to let anybody see

you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I pour whiskey on him and inhale

cigarette smoke

and the whores and the bartenders

and the grocery clerks

never know that

he's

in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say,

stay down, do you want to mess

me up?

you want to screw up the

works?

you want to blow my book sales in

Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too clever, I only let him out

at night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.

I say, I know that you're there,

so don't be

sad.

then I put him back,

but he's singing a little

in there, I haven't quite let him

die

and we sleep together like

that

with our

secret pact

and it's nice enough to

make a man

weep, but I don't

weep, do

you?

                                 # sharepoetry

The worst/best day ever.

                         There's something good in every day.
                                       

"Be proud of your scars."

                   
                           What do you learn from this video ?

If you want to read the translation into Spanish click on :
                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeoDC1S7bP4

                               

"All That We Share"

                             What do you think of this advertisement ?👍 /👎 ?

                                  Do we teach life skills in our schools ?

  We judge and label people too easily, but ...
                                                     how about building a sense of community instead ?

                                                I'm going to put it into practice. 

                                          

Positive compensation.

to watch the video click on the link below 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_fWYkJGLxyYUpFUU1rekRBQ2hZeGg3dzFRYlhBZ3JVcHJB/view?usp=sharing 

FUGU, the blowfish (pez globo)

                                             Defense mechanisms? Positive compensation?
                                            Sometimes animals look smarter than humans.

                                                   

 ⇨   to feed your curiosity:

*The Japanese name for this fish is Fugu.

*Fugu poison is 1200 times stronger than cyanide, and there is no known antidote.

*The fish defend themselves by inflating their bodies to several times normal size and by poisoning their predators.

*Fugu has become one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine. 

write you soon ;)

"Against the odds"

                                                 Have you ever felt like the iguana ?
                                                         Uncertain but possible.
                                                               Run. Run. Run.
                                                                     ;-)


 * against the/all  odds = contra todo pronóstico

Teachers: keepers of the flame.

                                        Nice metaphor, isn't it ?

 

Muhammad Ali .

                                          Brainy curiosity.
             The important thing is not to stop questionning  - Albert Einstein


curious about who he was ? Click on
 https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali 

Who is Bansky ?

" Street artist Banksy has been taking on the issue of Europe's handling of the ongoing refugee crisis. In this new artwork in front of the French embassy in London, he criticizes French authorities for using tear gas on refugees."


* take on = fight, oppose (enfrentarse a) 
* handling = treatment, approach (tratamiento)
* ongoing = active, continuing (en curso, en desarrollo)

"Tea consent"

                                   Consent is everything
                                      As simple as ABC

* consent =  assent, approval, permission, authorisation, green light, allowance, acquiescence...