November 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
“Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep...”
– ~Albert Einstein (via one-life)
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
– Ranier Maria Rilke (Tip ‘o’ the hat to a FB friend.)
June 2010
4 posts
yogaprivatelessons:
lingerlonger:
“To be free, shun the experiences of the senses like poison. Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, simplicity, truth.”
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“Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.”
– Claude Bernard (via scienceisbeauty)
“One faces the future with one’s past.”
– Pearl S. Buck (via psychotherapy)
You can't 'ask' for love.....
lady-amalthea:
dougstumblr:
it can only be ‘given’
and you don’t ‘take’ someones love when they give you it……oh no…
you ‘return’ it.
May 2010
18 posts
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,...”
– Swedish Proverb (via mirzdeliva) (via corners, mcmiri)
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha (via santosha65:ayyonikkib:blazinuzumaki:mfs) (via constantflux)
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So...”
– Andy Goldsworthy (via vanmoose) (via americansatori) (via oceanofmind) (via crashinglybeautiful, vasuki)
“The foolish man lies awake all night
Thinking of his many problems;
When the...”
– Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72 (via lastchatwithphontaine) (via arsvitaest) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“We don’t have to hate ourselves for our own vulnerability. We don’t have to hate...”
– Barry Magid (Courtesy of Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
I don’t forgive people because I’m weak. I forgive...
-jouerlasouris:
(via eletheowl)
“Why waste time lamenting time was wasted? Why not just stop wasting time?”
– @stonepeace (via jmoening)
“As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows,
you...”
– Morihei Ueshiba, “The Art of Peace,” page 55 (from Wake Up and Laugh!) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Life is precious and it’s important to live it boldly. There is no point in...”
– Bear Grylls (via lifeasquotes) (via lady-amalthea)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– (via fuckyeahhappy) (via xxboy)
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being...”
– Gottfried Leibniz (via joshuafry) (via fuckyeahneuroscience)
“An intense experience of mystery is what one has to regard as the ultimate...”
– Joseph Campbell (from Quantum Spirit) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Lots of people hardly ever feel real soil under their feet, see plants grow...”
– Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo), STONEY (via smokeandsassafrass) (via cosmic-dust) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I am more and more convinced that music, by its very nature, is something that...”
– Claude Debussy (via symphonyno2inem) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness....”
– Lao Tzu (via oceanofmind)
Gay Muslim Scholar challenging how Islam should... →
makelovelikemagic:
fuckyeahbisexuals:
myholigay:jonhenry:pinkpanthers:ohmygay:
Hats go off to Junaid Bin Jahangir.
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe...”
– John Lennon (via yourhappyplace) (via quote-book) (via makelovelikemagic)
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....”
– Thomas Carlyle (via nihilnoetia) (via crashinglybeautiful, nathanielstuart)
“Modern man’s belief that he is the only intelligent species has not been good...”
– J.R.R. Tolkein (via stranded-wanderer) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via xxboy)
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via xxboy)
Support Your Partner, But Not Too Much (Psych... →
nonbpwithhope:
hailstormpixie:
psychotherapy:
Supporting a partner seems to be the right thing to do, especially when things become rocky.
However, a new study finds that too much support — or the wrong kind of support — may actually do more harm than good.
Couples having problems are often advised to be more supportive of each other, but a series of University of Iowa studies shows that...
Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much (New... →
psychotherapy:
…in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and...
Talk deeply, be happy?
jmoening:
NYTimes.com:
The happiest person in the study, based on self-reports about satisfaction with life and other happiness measures as well as reports from people who knew the subject, had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one-third of the amount of small talk as the unhappiest.
April 2010
76 posts
“Of course, we can become psychologically unhinged for many reasons that are...”
– - The Americanization of Mental Illness
Such a fascinating article (originally posted yesterday) that I had to post something else from it.
(via psychotherapy)
Why Marriages Fail (via Shrink Talk) →
psychotherapy:
bolinpsychedin:
Couples in therapy split up more often than you might think. Couples therapy has a horrible track record for two reasons: one is that the couple usually waits far too long to seek help, long after arguments have gotten out of hand and the dyad has drifted in directions that can’t be saved. The other is that “therapy success” is often measured by whether or not...
Many Smokers Suffer from Depression →
psychotherapy:
New government data suggests that depression and smoking may be more intertwined than previously known. The new survey data suggests that people with depression are more likely to be smokers than those without.
According to government data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) taken from 2005 to 2008, 43 percent of adult smokers age 20 and older have...
Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot (Mind Hacks) →
psychotherapy:
A delightful study on the function of sighing has just been published in the journal Physiology and Behavior which suggests that our wistful deep breaths reboot our respiration and work as an unconscious stress management strategy.
Researchers, led by psychologist Elke Vlemincx, asked participants to wear devices that kept track of their breathing and monitored chest muscles...
"Exercise Therapy" for Depression (Psych Central) →
psychotherapy:
A new study has an old answer for mental health issues: Physical exercise is an underutilized method to reduce depression and anxiety.
According to researchers who analyzed the results of numerous published studies, exercise is a magic drug for many people with depression and anxiety disorders, and it should be more widely prescribed by mental health care providers.
“Exercise...
Creating Harmony: Do You Suffer from a Fear of... →
By Denise Humphrey, Ph.D., www.DeniseHumphrey.com
Many people — men, women and children — suffer from a fear of abandonment. While the basis of abandonment fears is usually set in childhood, abandonment issues often do not manifest until adulthood. People who suffer from fear of abandonment…
Is Marriage Good for Your Health? (New York Times) →
psychotherapy:
…Published in 2005 in The Archives of General Psychiatry, the Glasers’ findings help explain epidemiological data showing that couples in troubled marriages appear to be more susceptible to illness than happier couples. The results may also have practical relevance for surgical patients, for instance, waiting for incisions to heal. But most important, the study offered compelling...
Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is... →
psychotherapy:
Buying stuff can be disappointing. After swallowing the hype, checking out the options and trolling for bargains, finally you’ve got it; your brand new whatever-it-is.
Before long, though, the excitement fades. Your whatever-it-is isn’t so great any more. They’ve brought out a newer model with more features and anyway you’ve seen it cheaper elsewhere. It’s happened to all of us.
...
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
yogaprivatelessons:
annaovchinnikova:
lingerlonger:
1) “You are a physical extension of that which is non-physical.” You are not simply starting you life here on earth and waiting to finish and be with god or other non-physical beings. You are on the cutting edge because you are here putting out wants and intentions and propagating the universe forward.
2) “You are here in body because you...
“And so this brings us to the final formula of the Bodhisattava way, the way of...”
– Joseph Campbell (via seekingsatori) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Study: Experiences make us happier than... →
psychotherapy:
…Another reason for increased happiness in experiences, the researchers found, was that people felt a greater sense of vitality or “being alive” during the experience and in reflection, Howell said.
“As nice as your new computer is, it’s not going to make you feel alive,” he said.
Most psychologists who study the phenomenon say people adapt to a new purchase in six to eight...
Five emotions you never knew you had →
victoriaisamess:
Some emotional states only have names in particular languages. Here are some examples:
Fiero (Italian): contented pride in achieving something just for oneself.
Amae (Japanese): the sweet feeling of being dependent on someone else.
Naches (Yiddish): the glow of proud pleasure that only a child can give to its parents.
Schadenfreude (German): the feeling you experience when...
“Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn’t...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (Absolutely, silence is a word that gets tossed around a lot, especially in so-called spiritual circles, and because of this, it loses meaning. Thank you nihilnoetia, for this wonderful quote.) (via crashinglybeautiful, nathanielstuart)
Neuroskeptic: A "Severe" Warning for Psychiatry →
psychotherapy:
A really great write-up that follows up with some legitimate questions about the study/article I posted a few minutes ago from Newsweek…
Imagine there was a nasty disease that affected 1 in 100 people. And imagine that someone invented a drug which treated it reasonably well. Good work, surely.
Now imagine that, for some reason, people decided that 10% of the population need to...
Too many toys →
jesssica:
This article is interesting, and a little sad:
“They [kids] get overwhelmed and over-stimulated and cannot concentrate on any one thing long enough to learn from it so they just shut down. Too many toys means they are not learning to play imaginatively either.”
A study by the University of Stirling recently concluded that expensive, hi-tech toys are a waste of money - children learn...
“The still point is at the heart of the creative process. In Zen, we access it...”
– John Daido Loori Roshi, “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life” (from wonderingmind studio) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Crashingly Beautiful: The Mullah & His Flower... →
Mullah Nasruddin had put a lot of effort into starting a beautiful flower garden and was eagerly awaiting the results. One morning he woke up and the garden was in full bloom. But it was filled not just with the flowers he had planted but also with a yellow blanket of dandelions, which he didn’t…