How do you feel after the Path of Love? – Video
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How do you feel after the Path of Love?
Some of the our dear Path of Love participants tell us how they feel upon completion of the process in August 2014. Path of Love is an internationally acclaimed, powerful personal development...
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How do you feel after experiencing the Path of Love process? – Video
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September 6 – Personal Development – Video
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Personal Development Tip of the Day: maintain your power – Video
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Online Education For Career Change – Video
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Measuring Teaching Quality in the Online Classroom A conversation with Ann Taylor – Video
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Or, how I ended up plucking the seeds off a strawberry at six in the morning.
Posted: September 9, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Its six in the morning. Im on the sofa, hunched over a strawberry. One by one, Im removing all of its seeds with a pair of tweezers. Each one makes a satisfying thuck when disconnected from its fleshy socket.
I hear some footsteps and my dad appears, wearing a dressing gown and a look of profound concern. Ive been expecting him. He usually gets up about now; I havent even been to sleep yet.
Are youOK? he says.
Shh! I reply, barely looking up from the strawberry.
I feel like all of my 25 years have been leading up to this; me, sleeplessly, lovingly, painstakingly assaulting fruit. Although I appreciate (and completely understand) my dads concern, this isnt a cry for help. Not exactly. For the past couple of weeks, Ive been making a concerted effort to achieve mindfulness. The strawberry thing happened organically.
Any of my fellow depression and generalised anxiety sufferers have probably been told at some point that mindfulness, the ability to mentally exist in the present, is the answer to absolutely everything. Stress? Mindfulness. Panic attacks? Mindfulness. Huge, pulsating haemorrhoids? Anusol, and mindfulness. Mindfulness is, if were to believe its exponents, the sexy cure-all for the nail-chewing ailments of my anxiety-ridden generation.
Recently, my mental health took a dive. So I bought a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. The most sickeningly florid one I could find. My reasoning was that if Im going to take up a pensioners hobby, I might as well go all out and do a puzzle of an English country cottage with a thatched roof, next to a stream littered with the most serene looking waterfowl youve ever seen. One way to achieve mindfulness, Ive heard, is to engage in the kind of intricate task that requires all of your focus.
Ten minutes into the puzzle, Im on my knees, sweating onto pile upon pile of its mean little pieces. How, in the name of bad art, am I supposed to differentiate between pieces of sky and pieces of lake? It turns out that negotiating the subtleties of the colour blue does absolutely nothing to alleviate my weltschmerz. I want to put all of the pieces together, just so I can punch them back into a giant mess. Take it from me, wanting to complete a puzzle out of spite is a bad place to be, both mentally and physically.
The puzzle has only added to my stress. I shove the pitiful amount of it that Id managed to complete under my bed, and promise that Ill give it another try one day (like shit I will). Its time to simmer down to the sound of Eckhart Tolle, the worlds most soothing German. I have his 1997 mindfulness instruction manual, The Power of Now, on audiobook. I press play on Tolle. Hes saying a lot of words, and I quickly stop caring what they are theyre just so freakishly calming. Its like being whispered at by a lovely wise horse.
But back to the strawberry, and how that happened. Insomnia always makes me hungry. I was hunting cheese, but a punnet of strawberries caught my eye. Have you ever looked at some fruit and wondered what if?. I usually avoid eating strawberries, because the feeling of a seed stuck in my teeth makes me want to saw off my face from the nose downwards. So why not just take out all of those bastard little seeds? Early morning sunlight glinted off my tweezers. If I wasnt feeling drained of all life, I wouldve laughed maniacally.
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Religious Youths Are Less Likely to Experiment with Drugs and Alcohol, Baylor Study Finds
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Newswise Young people who regularly attend religious services and describe themselves as religious are less likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol, according to a new study.
The study of 195 juvenile offenders was done by researchers at Baylor Universitys Institute for Studies of Religion, the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. It appears in the journal Alcohol Treatment Quarterly.
Juvenile offenders in the study were referred by a court, mental health professional or physician to a two-month residential treatment program and were assessed by researchers at intake and discharge through interviews, medical chart reviews, drug screening and reports by youths, parents and clinicians.
Study findings, which support a growing body of research, suggest that young people who connect to a higher power may feel a greater sense of purpose and are less likely to be bothered by feelings of not fitting in, said researcher Byron Johnson, Ph.D., co-director of Baylors Institute for Studies of Religion.
Researchers used four measures: alcohol or drug use, craving for alcohol or drugs; prosocial behaviors (service to others); and self-centered or narcissistic behavior. Forty percent of youths who entered treatments as agnostic or atheist identified themselves as spiritual or religious at discharge, which correlated with a decreased likelihood of testing positive for alcohol and drugs.
Daily spiritual experiences such as prayer or worship also were associated with a greater likelihood of sexual abstinence, increased prosocial behaviors and reduced narcissistic behaviors, researchers wrote.
Johnson noted that fewer adolescents today are connected to a religious organization than were youths of previous generations. Twenty-five percent of the millennial generation people born between 1980 and 2000 were not attached to any particular faith, Johnson said, citing a 2010 Pew Research report.
Among possible reasons that adolescents may opt not to experiment with drugs are religious instruction, support from congregations, or a conviction that using alcohol and drugs violates their religious beliefs, Johnson said.
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Solavei Social Presentation – Zig Ziglar – 9/4/2014 – Video
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Bristol TN Counseling Center Walkthrough – Video
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