https://youtu.be/UfcAVejslrU?si=PQfxNsRfVMO1_7er In a UK neuroscientists study, “Weightless” by Marconi Union, which you can listen to below, induced a 65 percent reduction in overall anxiety of participants and a 35 percent reduction in their usual physiological resting rates. Let's call it sound therapy.
Franti’s “Hey World”
https://youtu.be/01FE9cPXE3M?si=8D65LntChERRaKHV Hey Worldtell me why the grass was greeneryear agoI swear it used to grow herebut no more heretell me whyon this hillall the birds they used to come to fly herecome to die hereand tell my why i need to knowsometimes i wish i didn't have to knowall you show mehey worldwhat you sayshould … Continue reading Franti’s “Hey World”
…or Text Instead of Call?
Photo credit: Dra. Blues, Flickr Don't use the phone.People are never ready to answer it.Use poetry.---Jack Kerouac
Picasso’s Dove and Learning New Things
I am always doing that which I can not do,in order that I may learn how to do it.----Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Important to Laugh
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. --Alan Watts
One Day. Day One.
...And then one day you find ten years have got behind youNo one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled linesHanging on in quiet desperation is the English wayThe time is … Continue reading One Day. Day One.
The Seven Factors of Awakening
What are the seven factors of awakening? Note that this Buddhist approach focuses on the positive rather than on the negative (the hindrances). Mindfulness. To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings. Investigation of the nature of reality. (nothing is permanent, and all thoughts and feelings should be viewed as passing phenomena.) Energy also … Continue reading The Seven Factors of Awakening
One Seeker's Story 