One of the pathways for connecting to this powerful potential is kindness.
As the ocean is vast, we have the capacity for everything to be--all the cycling life and death, the difficult emotions, relentless thoughts, aching bodies, severe injustice, all the waves washing ashore. What we truly are is unimaginably more. Let us not forget we are the ocean, not the waves. — at Dog Beach (Del Mar, North Beach). Our vastness is our power, and it is our innate potential for connectedness, creativity, joy and peace in a turbulent World--inside and out. Connect to it as often as you can.
One of the pathways for connecting to this powerful potential is kindness.
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As soft in heart as he is on the eyes, BJ Miller explores with us parts of his own personal and professional journey encountering death and loss. Grief is a powerful human experience and an usher toward a threshold through which our lives change; transformation. Thank you, BJ for your courage, confidence and service.
Here's some compelling evidence for what kind of power our thoughts could have. Keep in mind that our human bodies are approximately 60% water (according to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry). Our brains are 70% water. Babies being born have little bodies made up of about 78% water. Furthermore, it's estimated that 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by saltwater--not including the freshwater and glaciers, and water in the clouds and atmosphere. "If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what our thoughts can do to us?" This clip comes from a movie titled, What the Bleep Do We Know!? I usually enjoy a good review of quantum physics, neurobiology, psychology, and philosophy all rolled up into one captivating production. I thought this one was well done and put together particularly nicely. For me, it was a timely reminder to widen my gaze and open again to the infinitely broad range of possibility. To relax again into the mystery and not-knowing.
Today we remember Dr. Frankl fondly and celebrate his contributions to existential and humanistic psychology and medicine.Happy birthday! In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.
Neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl pioneered an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the human search for meaning. |
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