Paul Hawken

Simple Living

1. Accurate Self Knowledge
2. Purging the Unnecessary
3. The Willingness to Say “No”
4. A Focus on Conscious Consumption
5. Cultivating Patience
6. Mindfulness
7. A Desire for Less

Dalai Lama - Mission Statement

“He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.”

Knowledge without action pays few dividends.

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it." 
- Samuel Johnson

Compassion for all living things needs to be practiced to save our Planet...

Jane Goodall


‎"AND IF WE DARE TO LOOK INTO THOSE EYES, THEN WE SHALL FEEL THEIR SUFFERING IN OUR HEARTS. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THAT APPEAL AND FELT IT IN THEIR HEARTS. 


ALL AROUND THE WORLD THERE IS AN AWAKENING OF UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT REACHES OUT TO HELP THE SUFFERING ANIMALS IN THEIR VANISHING HOMELANDS. 


THAT EMBRACES HUNGRY, SICK, AND DESPERATE HUMAN BEINGS, PEOPLE WHO ARE STARVING WHILE THE FORTUNATE AMONG US HAVE SO MUCH MORE THAN WE NEED. 


AND IF, ONE BY ONE, WE HELP THEM, THE HURTING ANIMALS, THE DESPERATE HUMANS, THEN TOGETHER WE SHALL ALLEVIATE SO MUCH OF THE HUNGER, FEAR, AND PAIN IN THE WORLD. 


TOGETHER WE CAN BRING CHANGE TO THE WORLD, GRADUALLY REPLACING FEAR AND HATRED WITH COMPASSION AND LOVE. LOVE FOR ALL LIVING BEINGS."

If you don't see our "shared something" in his eyes, look again.

Homeostasis of Happiness: Moods Fluctuate

Elements of the Wallenda Model

Variable: position of body Setpoint: directly over the wire Sensors: nerve receptors (eyes, inner ears, muscle stretch receptors, etc.) Integrator: brain Effectors: skeletal muscles

Homeostasis: The body's balance

homeo = same; stasis = standing
Homeostasis = relative constancy of the internal fluid environment

The concept was first articulated by the Frenchman, Claude Bernard in 1860s

The term "homeostasis" was first used by an American, Walter Bradford Cannon in 1920s

"The coordinated physiological processes which maintain most of the steady states in the organism are so complex and so peculiar to living beings ...that I have suggested a special designation for these states, homeostasis. The word does not imply something set and immobile, a stagnation. It means a condition—a condition which may vary, but which is relatively constant." —Walter B. Cannon

W. B. Cannon was the one who really established homeostasis as a unifying concept of human physiology.

Read more at the site:

http://www.lionden.com/homeostasis.htm

Loving the World

MESSENGER

My work is loving the world.

Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird —

equal seekers of sweetness.

Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?

Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me

keep my mind on what matters,

which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

The phoebe, the delphinium.

The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.

Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,

which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart

and these body-clothes,

a mouth with which to give shouts of joy

to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,

telling them all, over and over, how it is

that we live forever.

~ Mary Oliver, born in 1935, American poet

Positive Psychology: How Full Is Your Glass? | World of Psychology

Positive Psychology: How Full Is Your Glass? | World of Psychology:

How Full Is Your Glass? | World of Psychology : This realization ushered in a more global discussion of what positive psychology is actual...

Mindfulness Continental Style

“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.
We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;

but we do not notice it.”
(Charles Baudelaire - French poet, 1821-1867)

Imagery for Getting Well

Creating the image of meaning in despair, finding joy in crisis, and imaging hope in tragedy.  In other words, it is about seeing the pony in the mire of a life-threatening or chronic condition.

- Deirdre Davis Brigham, author "Imagery for Getting Well -Clinical Applications of Behavioral Medicine

Beginner's Mind

Sit down before facts like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion.  Follow humbly whatever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- T.H. Huxley