’s compassion for myself in another form. It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering — the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering in themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathise, make a connection, and look for a way to reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve reached out and let thesm know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.
That’s a powerful thing.
And so you ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion. BUT that’s the only kind there is.Severn
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speaking more openly about the prospects for near-term extinction. We need to stop the momentum of this civilization, but it is difficult to imagine how that can happen without cataclysm. If we were to return home, to the community of life, where are the elders who could help us rediscover our proper role in the cosmic order? I suspect that we must seek to establish, more consciously, interspecies communication.
Indigenous cultures rooted in entheogenic shamanism understand that many plants (not just psychedelic ones) have a form of sentience, intelligence, or wisdom that can be contacted through ritual practices like Dietas. Where does such a “plant-mind” or “plant-soul” exist? I understand the physical plant to be the visible expression of a supersensible being, an astral entity. By working with the plant’s physical being, you can contact the hidden being that lies in the invisible, astral dimension, and access its teaching.
Daniel Pinchbeck
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The answer to this could help the assessor to understand which of the four strengths the person
might fit into, they then could potentially develop or discard that theory during the assessment.
This could lead to specific strategies in the recommendations part of the report.
For example:
M-strength - children that create, build, make e.g. Lego
I-strength - children that develop a keen interest in a specialist field e.g. botany
N-strength - children who can create complex stories, who can ‘see’ and imagine vivid scenes e.g. writing stories, plays
D-strength - children who invent, recreate and develop ideas e.g. merge Lego, Meccano and their train track in order to create the desired result.
We would love to hear from anybody using strategies like these who would like to share findings.
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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roject, if I would be happy to give a presentation of my system to some senior members of IBM who are major sponsors of Oxford University and the Press; and so it was arranged for me to do so during an annual event of Senior IBM Staff and their wives, visiting Oxford, the University and the Press, for a week, such that the wives could do their shopping and visit the sites, whilst the IBMers were provided with various tours and a representative update Presentation of the latest happenings, concerning the use of technology and the Oxford English Dictionary • OED. So it was on the day that having first been introduced to the concept of Systems Analysis on an IBM 64K Mainframe during my training as an Upper Airspace Area Radar Controller, I provided a demonstration of the Technology behind the Volcano Videodisc Project, which as it happens was the self same early development technology which Tim Berners Lee later utilised for creating the HyperText Transition Protocol on which the launch and development of the INTERNET is based. I can only imagine that they were all pretty impressed because of the hand clapping and the extensive question and answer dialogue which then pursued. …
IS NOT a CEO. Except for managing subordinates, the business field has some of the worst guidelines one could choose for political office. One’s ability to turn a profit for one’s self or a company has nothing to do with running a country. The two better models would be, one, running a charity. Does a president possess the abilities to run an organization designed to rescue people from disaster, poverty, disease, crime, or war?The other model one could use should be either unions or civil rights organizations.
I can already imagine many conservatives blanching at the thought. But what both outfits share are their ability to work to unite masses of people in a cause, fairer treatment for people of a class, profession, or ethnic group. It is no coincidence that in Europe and Latin America, union organisers are far more often elected than in America, where the US tends to elect businessmen and lawyers. The practices come from and result in a far more unequal society. In fact, civil rights organisers are among the few American congressmen with a history of consistently putting popular concerns above elite ones.
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abstract or impersonal facts) and procedural memories.
Episodic memory has a highly narrative or 'scene based' format in which concepts and ideas are conceived or recalled as experiences, examples, all enactments rather than as abstract, non-contextual definitions.
The episodic construction system can use fragments stored experience not only to reconstruct and remember the past but also to imagine the future, solve problems, test the fitness of proposed inventions or plans, or create imaginary scenarios and stories.
Episodic construction and creativity can be closely linked.
Individuals who rely on episodic narrative concepts rather than abstract, non-contextual facts will typically reason, remember and learn better using examples and illustrations rather than abstract concepts or definitions.
Many individuals with dyslexia will learn and remember better by transforming abstract information into narrative or case based information through the use of memory strategies or stories.
Many individuals with dyslexia enjoy (and are skilled in) creative writing even though they may have difficulty with formal academic writing or reading; so teachers should look carefully for signs of narrative ability in students with dyslexia and they should help talented individuals with dyslexia further their abilities through the use of appropriate tutoring and accommodations.
Narrative approaches can be useful for all sorts of occupational and educational tasks not just creative writing.
Occupations and fields
Poet, songwriter, novelist, journalism, screenwriter, counselling, psychology, ministry, teaching, coaching, politician, game design, lawyer, sales, advertising, public relations
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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