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‘Hurt' the short film by Luviama is a story about the beautiful dance of relationship, trust and betrayal, feelings and beliefs, the tragedy of chance, change and risk that naturally destroy and bring friable soil to the unknown anew.
Audio by @sound_hybrid_artist
Full video on YouTube
Multiple Intelligences online learning styles test, available online at site of Birmingham Grid for Learning: www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict...
There are cicles in life,
and sometimes we must rebuild.
Let's ask ourself what is wrong inside.
Rebuild :)
"We are what we do, but mainly, we are what we do to change what we are."
Eduardo Galeano
"Somos o que fazemos, mas somos, principalmente,
o que fazemos para mudar o que somos."
Eduardo Galeano
Dedicated to CARF.
"The scent of your skin
Gets to my head
As the smoke from your cigarette do"
Jay Jay Johanson: I fantasize of you
Meat, alcohol - drugs and free sex should not to be taken up to maintain the Self-Realization attained. Pre-marital sex is wrong and if ever it has happened one can do pratikraman to wash the karma bound and be determined not to indulge in it again. One must find a partner, get married and remain sincere to that person.
To know more about dangers of free sex, please click on:
English: www.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/self-help/how-to-pr...
Gujarati: www.dadabhagwan.in/path-to-happiness/self-help/how-to-pra...
Hindi: hindi.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/self-help/how-to-...
To know more about dangers of meat eating, please click on:
English: www.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science/n...
Gujarati: www.dadabhagwan.in/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science/no...
Hindi: hindi.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/spiritual-science...
This necklace is made of gemstones and glass beads with an Om symcol in the center. To keep the neckalce chunky, I used a similar size in chunky beads. There are certain beads that represent each chakra, but I have not focused on the gems themselves. I have focused on the colours of each chakra system. Shows are: Hemetite beads which are sttung as a base for the neckalce.
GEMLORE AND CHAKRA INFO:
Hemetite is said to bring on better memory, focus, calmness,energy,peace, inner joy and transforms negativity.
The red bead, red aventurine is said to be an all purpose healing stone. It encourages creativity, brings calmness to the troubled soul, confidence,heals emotional and physical aches and pains, and luck.
Next, is carnelian which purifies blood, lessons the pains of menstrual cramps, enhances desire and passion,self esteem, personal power, concentration,boldness,, rebirth and assertivness.
The yellow bead, Citrine encourages the growth of self condfidence, creativity, will power, success, comfort,energy and emotional/mental clarity.
Peridot, th green bead heals anger,jealousy and bitterness from the ego or heartache. It draws money,relaxation,abundance,renewal,growth,intuition,communication and even helps to get better sleep.
The next bead shown is a blue glass bead. However, f.y.i, the bead representing the 5th charka is chrysocolla which attracts good luck, peace,prosperity,intuition,intimacy, meditation,heals wounds, promotes forgiveness,acceptance and patience.
The indigo bead is also a glass bead, and the last bead is an amethyst stone. This spiritual stone has important metaphysical properties as it connects one to the divine, brings calmness and clarity to the mind, strengthens intuition, banishes confusion and anxiety, rids stress, brings sobriety, protects, increases spiritual strength, tolerance, forgiveness, meditation, and over all positive transformation.
OM: Om mantra is the most sacred syllable in the Hindu and Buddhist tradition. It represends the sound that was created which made the world manifest. It is used in meditation to clarify the clouded mond, promote peace and encourage compassion, mindfullness and intuition.
The Chakra system is a system of spinning discs in the body. When these discs are aligned, the spin, creating a harmony in the individual. However, when they ar unbalalnced, there are symptoms of discord, and disharmony. There are disctinct chakras which govern particular parts of the body.
1st-Root chakra,Red;Grounding chakra, security. Imbalanced-Insecurity,self pity.
2nd-Sacrum,Orange;Pleasure/Creativity. Expression, optimism. Imbal-Withdrawn,destructive.
3rd-Solar Plexus,Yellow; Confidence, Willpower, self esteem, Logic/intellect,Goals. Imbal-Sarcasam,poor self image.
4th-Heart,Green; Love,compassion, Empathy,Accaptance. Imbal-Anger,Unforgiving,Apathy,Selfishness.
5th-Throat,Blue; Expression,Truth,Honesty,Power with words. Imbal- Poor communication, arrogance in ideas, arguments,self-righteous.
6th-Third Eye,Indigo; Devotion, Intuition, Openess to the divine and what is, Connection to the divine in things, Kindness, Trust. Imbal-Indifference,Scattered Mind,Doesn't trust Intuition.
7th-Crown,Purple;Spirituality, Peace,Self Knowledge,Artistic, Intuition, Wisdom, Openness. Imba;-Apathy, Depression.
The chakras can be balances with meditation, diets, colour visualization, and more.
"I drink again
I smoke again
There's no one here
To call my friend
I swear again
I'm mad again
So troubled since
I don't know when"
Jay Jay Johanson
Simple (too simple?) Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic learning style assessment, online here: www.vaknlp.com/vak.htm
Showing someone their political/family orientation which they either don't know or have lost touch with. I simplify it to conservative or liberal. Red for conservative and blue for liberal, kind of like the current --blue state/Democrat -- red state/Republican-- description. I also like the --right brain/blue -- left brain/red --orientation descriptions if you are familiar with those from psychology.
This self knowledge would help us not to more deeply ingrain our prejudices in futile conflicts. For example, if a person knows they are more conservative they know that they must restrain their inclination to attack those that have strengths or weaknesses in the liberal vein. That could mean being less critical of new ideas. It could mean being less critical of more free ideas of personal behavior. Another common and more serious problem is overreacting to violations of legislated law or other traditional doctrines. For closer views see: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2101757001/
"Gazing into your eyes for a brief moment I seize my freedom
Just as quickly as it comes, the mind shuts down with feelings of pain
The pang of feeling separate invades my thoughts
Aching to touch your mind with my own
Aching to feel your heart with my own
Tears offer both cleansing and suffocation
In and around me
Desperate to return
The blossoming comes
No more a wife
No more a widow
No more a woman
The Goddess appears
She opens herself
She blooms in glory of the beginning
She forms herself into the shape of a key
And opens my heart
In awe and reverence the mind bows low
And forms within itself the Vision of Her
And She becomes the Way and the Substance
She becomes the Light and the Song
Until Joy brings Freedom effortlessly"
Ganga Fondan, 2009
Today I met a beautiful woman in her seventies who like me under very similar circumstances lost her soul mate at a young age and had to rebuild her life. Unlike me she had three daughters to raise and for the last 30 years has not let go of the idea of depending on them and her husband’s shadow to find happiness. She yearns now to expand and transform this paradigm. Her mind is locked in a limited idea of what is still possible for her to experience and express in this life. I told her about the tools I discovered and use on my journey and invited her to tomorrow night’s event:
You are welcome to join 21st century business innovator and creativity expert Tulshi Sen for a live no charge teleseminar where he discusses his insights and offers cutting edge methods for unlocking the padlock of the mind and creating the life you really want to experience:
Part 1 - You Cannot Raise Yourself Above Your Belief Level
Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time (10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Dial in Phone Number: 1-218-862-1300
Conference Code: 302937
I recently created this flower diagram from the classic career guide "What Color is Your Parachute."
One of the basics of marketing is to know all the ins and outs of the product you are publicizing. I can't think of a more exhaustive piece of product research about oneself than this flower diagram which grows only after a barrage of exercises in Richard Bolles' career guide.
Memletics learning styles inventory, available free online and/or downloadable here: www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/
At www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv - I'm only moderatley schizoid, narcissicistic/Obessesive-compulsive - get over it!
Test done online at www.humanmetrics.com 16 Dec 2011
I came out as ITNP which is the same as Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, C. G. Jung, Michel de Montaigne, Michel Nostradamus, Ada Lovelace - which is not a bad list I suppose... I expect each 4 letter type has its stars though!
"Walking like you're stuck in velvet snow,
Start in on your story and I'll go
Walking like you're stuck in velvet snow
Glowing 'cause youre sweating on the floor,
Dancing like you'll never dance no more,
Glowing 'cause you're sweating on the floor
And tehn you go, and when you go,
you get to going way too fast, and I'm so slow
Turn out the lights, she's coming to fight,
and then she'll go
Deatz row smoking getting to your face,
Showing off your something shaved and lacy,
Death row smoking getting to your face
Little Jo, she warned me not to call you,
stocked that you were carrying some bad news
Leave it up to me and I'll just drown you,
out into the city where you came from."
Kings of Leon: Velvet Snow, on: Aha Shake Heartbreak, RCA, BMG 2004.
Self identification allows a person to understand their prejudices and strengths. I suggest that the red shirted male and red dressed female have a conservative orientation and the blue shirted male and blue dressed female have a liberal orientation. The gray people don't know their strengths or weaknesses.
That self knowledge would help us not to ingrain our prejudices in futile conflicts. For example, if a person knows they are more conservative they know that they must restrain their inclination to attack those that have strengths or weaknesses in the liberal vein. That could mean being less critical of new ideas. It could mean being less critical of more free ideas of personal behavior. Another common and more serious problem is overreacting to violations of legislated law or other traditional doctrines.
I also like the current descriptions of state voting records where the the color choices match this painting--blue states for Democrat/liberal and red states for Republican/conservative. I also have read with interest the descriptions from psychology which would be --my blue color stands for right brain orientation/liberal and -- my red for left brain orientation/conservative. Art and creativity supposedly come from the right side of the brain and logic and science from the left.
To see a closer view see: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2101820241/
My fifteen year old son loves to torment me by mentioning, with respect to my work, a comment which was made during the opening of “The Box Projects” in July of 2005. In parting, a woman refered to my pieces as “clever” and my son thought this was hilarious.
It struck a cord with me as well, which seems ironic since I do consider my work more akin to parlour magic than high art.
When a fellow artist recently visited and saw what I was working on, she asked, “What's this?” My heart sank as I replied, “It's just a paper cup I'm making.”
I had spent the previous week very excited about the possibilities inherent in my paper “test” and to hear myself describe it in these terms reduced it to what I no doubt secretly feared could be the perception of “others”.
In my work , I strive to be true to the process. I honestly don't give a lot of thought to what others will think of individual pieces. For me, it is a process in story-making, in revisiting my own assumptions, in not considering “carved in stone” the truth in anything I remember.
This brings criticism (from both within and without). Technique aside – all my “paintings” have more to do with cutting in and filling, for example, because of what I learned while painting door jams – the content of my work may very well just be a re-hashing of things best forgotten.
I really don't believe that, but I often think that. And often, both in my head and in crowds of people I love, I say so.
My brain is always a blur with questions about art, and I guess what it really boils down to is a question about what it really is. Why is it important? Is it? What is its relationship to knowledge? Is it possible for it to be a way of knowing? Is making paper cups important?
Perhaps only a clever person would know for sure.
Soem analysis of this personality type here: typelogic.com/intp.html
Apparently this type is also known as "The Architect": keirsey.com/4temps/architect.asp
"Sun of the Sleepless
Sun of the sleepless! melancoly star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremlously far!
That show'st the darknes thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to joy remember'd well!
So gleams the past, the light of other days,
Which shines, but warms not with its powerless rays;
A night-beam Sorrow watcheth to behold,
Distinct, but distant - clear - but, oh how cold!"
Byron
The greatest challenge for must of us is believing that we are worthy now, right this minute. Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites mind power techniques by Brené Brown #artworksayings #selfknowledge #lifeenhancement
Day 114/365
I've been learning a lot about myself in the last few months. And today as I talked to a coworker about the things that are on tap for my photography in the next couple of months. I got so excited, could feel myself getting happier and more confident, and more hopeful as I talked.
And when I came home and found this quote I stopped to think about the last few weeks, to think about the progression (or lack thereof) of my anxiety and discomfort over that last 3 and a half months. And what I realized is that as I've become more and more invested in this project, and in my art-- I have been less and less bothered by ... well... anything.
I'm still not super-happy at work. It's still stressful, and going to get worse. But i'm not as actively bothered by it. I've gotten better and better at leaving it behind me at the end of the day. At not carrying my frustration with me when I leave the office and head home for the night, or for the weekend.
Even at my desk at the office, I find myself getting less worked up about things. Because I know that in time I won't need any office to pay my bills. WIth every event, with every daily photo, with every experimental shot, every panorama... I get closer.
Like so many things, this idea isn't perfect yet. But the difference in me a year ago (shortly after starting this job) and me now is striking. It's not that I care less, it's that I've learned that I don't have to care as intensely. I don't have to take this job personally. I've learned and accepted and taken to heart that good-bad-or ugly, it's just a job. And doing my best doesn't have to include letting it run my life.
I know myself so much better now, and i know what I want. And I won't let things that aren't part of my final plan bother me anymore. They're stepping stones to the future I'm creating. And it's a waste of time to get worked up about a stepping stone. Instead of being bothered, I'm going focus on the ultimate goal. Because that's what really matters.
still a work-in-progress..
"You dread the depths; it should horrify you, since the way of what is to
come leads through it. You must endure the temptation of fear and doubt,
and at the same time acknowledge to the bone that your fear is justified and
your doubt is reasonable. How otherwise could it be a true temptation and a
true overcoming!"
Carl Jung, The Red Book
Groucho Marx presents my personality. Worth the licence fee alone. (but surely I'm not that disagreeable...)
"We declare our right on this earth...
To be a human being,
To be respected as a human being...
Which we intend to bring into existence
By Any Means Necessary"
If love is universal, no one can be left out inspirational thoughts by Deepak Chopra #InspirationalQuotes #Thoughts #SelfKnowledge
"I warn you, whoever you are, oh! You who want to probe the arcana of nature, that if you do not find within yourself that which you are looking for, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the excellences of your own house, how do you pretend to find other excellences? Within you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Know thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."