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The Power of Attention: ReWilding the Self #6

On this Memorial Day weekend, ReWild your Self! Be a memorial to your own innate wholeness and to the Earth. Choose to listen to the song of your own plasticina. Notice where you place your attention, and how you attend to your own self-care. Love yourself. It is the most radical political and spiritual act of our time. Continue reading

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The Plastic Paradox: ReWilding The Self -5

It is by understanding both the positive and negative effects of (neuro)plasticity that we can truly understand the extent of human possibilities. Continue reading

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Re-Wilding the Self -1

The nails of my fingers
leave claw marks
in the soil of life
from my clinging on
to what is familiar
and comfortable and no longer
serves that which is awakening Continue reading

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Re-Membering Beauty

…part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. The questions raised: In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? Continue reading

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Army to Train Soldiers to Cope with Emotions

“The idea here is to give people a new vocabulary, to speak in terms of resilience. Most people who experience trauma don’t end up with P.T.S.D.; many experience post-traumatic growth.”… Perhaps the biggest question — can an organization that has long suppressed talk of emotions now open up? Continue reading

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Resilience poem, “Optimism” by Jane Hirshfield

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow Continue reading

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Resiliency and Business Schools and Recession 101

…Western civilization must withdraw from its efforts at dominion over the Earth. This will be one of the most severe disciplines in the future, for the Western addiction to economic dominance is even more powerful than the drive toward political … Continue reading

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Resiliency — a poem by Allison Burnett, and Reflectiions

Resiliency I’m weary of resiliency. I want the kind of heart that breaks The way a wafer cracks in two – Along a fault.  Mine merely aches And bends, as does an autumn twig, Which, drenched by April rain and … Continue reading

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Sleeping with Rumi: Two Kinds of Resilience

It is true. I slept with Rumi last night. Yes. It is true too that he wears a beard and that after a January’s week of being alone in a remote mountain cabin, I now sprout one too. But that … Continue reading

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Today’s Politics and the Human Shadow

There would seem to be literal waves of tension and anxiety and fear moving through the world these days, what with the stock market crashing and a $700 billion bailout of a sitting president and people loosing their homes and … Continue reading

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