Category Archives: Thrivability

Emotional Resilience—Highest of Arts

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me… We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does  not forsake us in … Continue reading

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Edward T. Hall: A Personal Remembrance and “Thank You”

Edward Hall, Expert on Nonverbal Communication is Dead at 95 1914 — July 20, 2009 A Personal Remembrance and Thank You. Edward T. Hall’s book, The Hidden Dimension, was for me like being a kid and discovering a hidden light … Continue reading

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Choosing Heart and Risking Vulnerability

I am the river and the river is me. — Maori saying “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then. I am large. I contain multitudes.”  — Walt Whitman There are many paths through this time of drowning whirlpools and confusing … Continue reading

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Resiliency Skills for Today’s Job Market

Health takes a hit as economy creates more stress Economic stress is taking its toll on the USA’s emotional and physical health, new survey data show: More than half of Americans report irritability or anger, fatigue and sleeplessness, and almost … Continue reading

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Heart Opportunity Knocking — At Your Door!

The World is my teacher filtered through eyes memories and emotions attitudes moods and beliefs conscious and unconscious rigidities and flexibilities of body and heart and spirit and vision… and My goddess! How large a being can I allow this … Continue reading

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A Change and Hardiness Strategy

The realization of Oneness is the most viable change and hardiness strategy available to us – as individuals, in business, and as a nation. Say what? you ask. Yep. Woody Allen said it this way: “Students achieving oneness will move … Continue reading

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A Walkabout into Collective Consciousness

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. — Linda Hogan, Native American author and poet Look deep into nature … Continue reading

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What is the most important question you can ask?

Change is coming, but is it a ripple in the water or a convulsion of our sacred earth, preparing to mourn our passing? — Nancy Wood, We Became as Mountains: Poems of the Pueblo Conquest In such a time of … Continue reading

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The Fourth Instinct

“Most psychologists and biologists look at human behavior in terms of three instincts: survival, sex, and power. I believe, however, that you cannot understand human behavior without recognizing a fourth one-the instinct for transcendence, the instinct to connect to the … Continue reading

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The New Religion of the 21st Century

The potency of our worldviews is part and parcel of the wild resiliency keystone process, The Power of Arrival — A Self in the World. What I like about the poetic worldview expressed by Brian Piergrossi below is that it … Continue reading

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