WOW ~ an excellent video/link posted by my brilliant mother about the book “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World,” by Iain McGilchrist. “McGilchrist talks about the science and philosophy of his work, and makes a passionate case for reprioritizing the right hemisphere.” Be patient, it may take a couple of viewings to absorb the full message ~ snb
last night i had another one of my dreams about my youngest brother brian.
in my dream, he was in another serious car accident.
at the hospital he awoke and became fully conscious
like he was before his first accident
the doctors said the second accident
knocked him back into this world
and out of the semi-consciousness
the first accident had caused.
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we want something to happen to us
we realize no one else is going to make it so for us
we decide to embark on a voyage
we choose to become the captain of our vessel of discovery
.
we seek a voyage in order to discover
a new land,
a new opportunity,
a new friend,
a new love,
a new life,
a new self
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i think i used a form of this cognitive therapy ~ Exposure & Response Prevention ~
{its inception probably introduced by my marriage/divorce counselor}
with my fears {financial, relationship, creative, social} to start desensitizing myself in 2007.
and to this day, i look these phantoms in the face,
i don’t avoid them or
run from them or
become anxious by them.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.~Virginia Woolf
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yes ~ POW! what a great quote from Mister Rogers. i came across this today while researching an article. this plain advice and honest opinion resonated with me. when i read it, i thought how simple this truth really is. and i realized for some people the concept might not be so easy, it might be outright conflicting or incredibly foreign. because for some people who live & love in fear to have independence & love together might represent opposing and counteractive forces
and an impossibility for now or for ever. yet for me today, this concept of true love seems so easy, so essential, so intuitive, and so eternal ~ sb … {READ MORE} …
sarah nean bruce ≈ living in urbia… 