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Living Joy!us: The fear that stalks you
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Sunday, July 25, 2010. The fear that stalks you. We keep talking about tracking the fear, and that's really NOT hard to find because your fear stalks you. It haunts you. It comes up in your dreams, in your thoughts, in your reactions. It is knocking all the time at the edges of us. Nudge nudge. Some of us have it louder than others. Some of us ignore it better than others. But it's there. Do they encourage you to spread your wings, or are they threatened by that? In this work...
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Living Joy!us: Everything We Need Is Around Us-if we can recognize it as a gift
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Everything We Need Is Around Us-if we can recognize it as a gift. There was an old Star Trek (I'm talkin' the ORIGINAL Star Trek tv series) that put Kirk on a planet with an alien and they had to battle to the death to save their crew (or was it their planet? The crew could watch on the monitors. Anyway they had everything they needed to win. It was all around them, IF they could recognize it,. Cudos to British researchers at the University of No...
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Living Joy!us: Finding Safe-be consistent.
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Ultimately, safe is what we are all craving, and what we all strive to find. In the classroom, if a teacher is safe, it means she's consistent, and that she is predictable. If a parent is safe, it means they are the same. It does NOT mean that the adult is indulgent. Indulgent does not make the child feel safe. In fact, it often feels the opposite. Sometimes indulgence codes in as indifference. Labels: Being a Child. Articles on the Brain. Omega ...
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Living Joy!us: Working with Children and Trauma
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Working with Children and Trauma. As adults we forget what could be traumatic for a child. We think we are looking for big events, but really it's anything that was overwhelming. What sticks in the memory are events that engaged all of our senses at the moment of overwhelm. In that instant, it codes into the instinctive memory with deep indelible roots. It will be interesting to watch. This mother is also a nurse. If we are experiencing emotion via o...
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Living Joy!us: Getting Dirty Keeps Us Happy
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Sunday, August 29, 2010. Getting Dirty Keeps Us Happy. Science Daily (April 10, 2007) - Bacteria found in soil activated a group of neurons that produce the brain chemical serotonin. According to Dr. Chris Lowry, who wrote a paper for Bristol University, getting dirty produces more serotonin in the brain! Now, see that makes sense to ME because we always feel better when we get our hands in the dirt and work in the garden. Good old fashion playing in the mud made us happy.
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Living Joy!us: What Does it Mean to Be a Child?
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Sunday, August 29, 2010. What Does it Mean to Be a Child? Back in the Victorian Era children were dressed up like miniature adults. Little boys had powder wigs, and little girls had bustles. We look at the archival images and say "oh can you imagine? But are we any different today? What does it mean to be a child? We don't think that they should make mistakes. But if we never make a mistake, how do we learn? Figure out another way. Exploration leads to discoveries. Breaki...
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Living Joy!us: The Worry Wheel and How we Create Well Meaning Allergies
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Thursday, July 15, 2010. The Worry Wheel and How we Create Well Meaning Allergies. My mother, God love her, is a perfect example of the worry wheel, so let me tell you how this went just recently. The other day she decided to go downtown to pay a bill and pulled into a terraced parking structure. This was a new adventure, a toe in a bigger pond! This shook her but she got out, inspected her car, realized she didn't hit a car but a pole, and went home. This is backwards thinki...
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Living Joy!us: Inception-the seed of an idea of who we are
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Thursday, August 12, 2010. Inception-the seed of an idea of who we are. In the movie "Inception", just out now, the characters go into someone's dream to plant a seed so that the dreamer wakes with a new idea that he thinks is his own. Once accepted the seed will bloom and the mind will grow it. She said "even this horse's ass of a man won't stay with me"! But did you want him? We go into the past to find the seed that began the 'idea' of who we accepted that we were, so that...
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Living Joy!us: Sleep - it's a Ritual
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Monday, August 30, 2010. Sleep - it's a Ritual. There are two times of day when we are procedural-meaning we do things based on a routine. Routine is doing the same thing the same way. Another word for routine could be ritual. We have our waking rituals and our sleeping rituals. When we are in our procedural brain, we are not thinking, we are on automatic pilot. We have established a protocol and we simply go through it. If the sleep issue has been an issue for awhile now,.
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Living Joy!us: Birth Trauma Memories
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I-SEA - calm the sea inside. Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Someone recently told me that she had heard that all children remember being born until they are about two and a half. So she had asked her grandchild if he remembered. And he said he did. She asked him if he remembered being born and he nodded with assurance. She asked him what it was like being born and he touched the top of his head and made a squished up face and said "ow" in a long sound. Will take you somewhere else. Now imagine asking ever...
