News & Information
Here’s a health warning – you may not feel in the mood to laugh or joke about what is going on in your life. For me – sometimes the worse things are the more I find humour heals me…
This is a noticeboard. I wanted to put up things that interested me. Not everything here is funny, some things just touched me.
So please only look at this page if you are willing to lighten your load for a few moments, to be a little distracted, to share a sigh a smile or a tear. If you have anything you would like to add to this page and if it fits I would be glad to add it.
External events shape inner weather. Political instability, media outrage, and public conflict prime our alarm systems, at the moment it is hard to bear the volume of noise coming from world events. Notice when your anger feels louder after headlines; notice if you are addicted to the news cycle. Give yourself a rest: pause, breathe and listen to music or read a book instead.
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MY SQUIRREL TRAUMA – AN EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA
My garden is overrun with grey squirrels, I get angry when I see them because they sneak into my roof space, eat the insulation and chew the cables. I recently put up a large sign “NO SQUIRRELS ALLOWED” but they constantly ignore it. One sits outside my window when I am working, chewing on a tasty piece of cable and – so it seems – smiling at me, a big “F-YOU” on his face. Helpless, I live with my fantasies of squirrel murder which I am too ashamed to reveal publicly! However, comparing “angry” behaviour in squirrels and humans is…
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Tennis and therapy
Behavioural changes take time. I am a tennis player and years ago I learned incorrect backhand technique, losing many balls to local gardens. Over time, the behavioural neuron paths grew wide and deep and this ‘wrong’ backhand technique became automatic. Nowadays, I may ‘know’ the right technique, I watch Roger Federer, I try and copy him, but I have discovered that it takes thousands of repetitions to undo an old habit, to create new muscle memory. It is the same with angry behaviour and with ingrained traumatic responses. This requires patience – which may not come easy when or anger…
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Understanding Anger & Gaza and the Heavenly Warning by Voice Of Islam
Topic I: Understanding Anger: A Double-Edged Emotion
Topic II: Gaza and the Heavenly Warning: Famine, Pain, and the Unforgettable Reckoning -
Who would have thought it?
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How Groundhog Day changed my life
Paul Hannam believes the film ‘Groundhog Day’ holds the secret to happiness.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/07/how-groundhog-day-changed-my-life
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New York Times – Oliver Sachs
New York Times article : Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html?_r=0
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Nietzche and immortality
Below is the famous thought experiment by Frederick Nietzsche called ‘The Eternal Recurrence’: “What if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence-even this spider and…