This is for those who have been broken by abuse and adultery. Many people don’t understand unless they have walked that path. The brokenness is real. The wounds are deep. But God sees all of our wounds and He heals and restores. Hold onto Him and allow Him to guide you through the pain and darkness into your future.
“Yo-Yo Love”… was a term that came to me. As I thought of relationships… and how some seem to be.
For the word “love”… draws many victims in… then they get pushed away… as the “love” comes to an end.
And many manipulate others… like a “yo-yo” on a string… Repeatedly pulling victims to them… then throwing them away again.
Make it a priority to watch this short video… all of us are needed to make dramatic changes in partnership with the caring people here or elsewhere – take some time to do one thing to help someone… whatever you can do.
Pray that God will bless us all – every one of us…
Multitasking is what culture demands of us… most of us stress out just simply because we aren’t naturally ready for intense multitasking… let’s look at how mindfulness allows us to manage thinking and stress; to maintain health and well-being.
Mindfulness Practices to Improve Well Being
with Larry Berkelhammer, PhD
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Program Description This presentation was given at Marin Center for Independent Living in 2013. It describes how and why mindfulness practice has the power to improve health and well-being. Mindfulness practice allows us to live fully in the moment, which allows us to liberate ourselves from rumination and anxiety. For more articles and talks on How to Live Well With Chronic Illness, visit http://www.larryberkelhammer.com
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I know I need certain simple techniques to get higher return from mindfulness. After all, I was practically an old man before I began. In fact, regrading multitasking — actually I am improved. However, it is because I focus more on the prsent one thing that I am better able to multitask. .
Greater self-awareness leads to greater options. Preface each behavior with “I am choosing.” By announcing to yourself that you are about to engage in a behavior, you create greater self-awareness.
Here are some examples:
I’m choosing to walk across the room.
I’m choosing to stop at the red light.
I’m choosing to stop eating before finishing what’s on my plate.
You can do this with simple behaviors or complex ones. The point is that announcing each behavior reduces automatic behaviors that we normally perform each day without any conscious awareness. This practice is a great antidote to the feelings of powerlessness that often accompany life with a chronic illness.
It is valuable for a number of reasons:
It serves as a mindfulness practice, making us fully aware of our behavior.
It serves to replace automatic behavior with conscious intention.
For those of us living with chronic illness, it serves to return a sense of mastery — a sense that we are in control of our lives.
It serves to continually remind us that we can choose our behavior in every moment of the day.
The REAL power of a human being… through meditation
A documentary that explores the practice of
meditation and it’s effect on the mind and body.
Part of a BBC documentary
A healer with extraordinary powers
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A montage featuring just a handful of people in the world with atypical abilities. The song is “Savior Desire” by Simon of Trideja.
Wim Hof’s cold endurance comes from his practice of “Tummo” meditation, and likewise all of these abilities can be learned by the human body and mind, although they are usually not the lone goal of such efforts. The “electric man” phenomena and Daniel Tammet’s direct (and mostly undistorted) link into a “numerical dimension” of sorts are abilities which are typically innate in those who display them. Very few people have developed such capacities as the result of training, as they demand the most careful and informed of efforts.
Below are links to the full source videos in order of appearance:
Oh yes, I’m back on happiness and changing your DNA and your brain chemistry too; and so I’m taking a closer look with my new friend Matthieu Ricard from his Google Tech Talks in 2007 at how to re-program brains. His lecture is stored in the Youtube video library (its so nice to browse Youtube occasionally–well, actually, I do daily).
A healthy mind should act like a mirror – faces can be reflected in a glass but none of them stick. Use the same technique with thoughts – let them pass through your mind but don’t dwell.
It’s impossible to stop thoughts from coming but focusing on a particular sound or the breath going in and out calms the mind, giving greater clarity. Controlling the mind is not about reducing your freedom, it’s about not being a slave to your thoughts. Think of it as directing your mind like a boat rather than drifting.
Be mindful – pay attention to the sensations of your breath going in and out. If you notice your mind wandering simply bring it back to focusing on your breath. This is known as mindfulness. You can apply it to other sensations to bring you into the ‘now’ rather than dwelling on the past or future. You could focus instead on heat, cold and sounds that you hear.
Once you’ve achieved some skill in this you can use that to cultivate qualities such as kindness, or dealing with disturbing emotions. He says everyone has felt all-consuming love but usually it lasts for about 15 seconds, but you can hold on and nurture this vivid feeling by focusing on it in meditation. If you feel it becoming vague you can consciously revive it.
Like when playing the piano, practicing the feeling for 20minutes has a far greater impact over time than a few seconds. Regular practice is also needed like watering a plant.
You can then use meditation to gain some space from negative emotions. Ricard says: ‘You can look at your experience like a fire that burns. If you are aware of anger you are not angry you are aware. Being aware of anxiety is not being anxious it is being aware.’ By being aware of these emotions you are no longer adding fuel to their fire and they will burn down.
You will see benefits in stress levels and general wellbeing as well as brain changes with regular practice in a month. Those who say they don’t have enough time to meditate should look at the benefits: ‘If it gives you the resources to deal with everything else during the other 23 hours and 30minutes, it seems a worthy way of spending 20 minutes,’ Ricard says.
A friend wants to know if I’m still Christian. YES, I am. Everything that I’m referring to from science and new age and Buddhist teachers is complimentary with Jesus’s teachings. I posted a couple of the most important Christian practices–in my opinion, 1 John (NIV) and the Our Father prayer are essential in Christian belief.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Soninto the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Eric