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The ups and downs of my 27 months living and working in rural Ethiopia. January 15, 2015. I apologize for not blogging very frequently. I really appreciate you reading and following my journey over here! I hate to say it, but I’ve been having some pre-mature senioritis lately. Next week I’ll leave for my South African vacation! I am optimistic that I will come back rejuvenated and ready to finish out my last semester in Ethiopia strong. 1 Picking your nose. Totally fine any place any time. 4 Lines. T...
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A Little Culture | Rosieopia
https://rosieopia.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/a-little-culture
The ups and downs of my 27 months living and working in rural Ethiopia. January 15, 2015. I apologize for not blogging very frequently. I really appreciate you reading and following my journey over here! I hate to say it, but I’ve been having some pre-mature senioritis lately. Next week I’ll leave for my South African vacation! I am optimistic that I will come back rejuvenated and ready to finish out my last semester in Ethiopia strong. 1 Picking your nose. Totally fine any place any time. 4 Lines. T...
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The Meditation Experience: Suchness
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. If you could choose, where would you be right now? That's where we spend most of our lives. This world takes a myriad of forms including galaxies, ants, and human beings. Birth and death are as basic as pleasure and pain. In meditation we observe the relative inside us in our internal talk, in body sensations that come with emotions, and in our internal imagery. Living in the relative is an incredible trip - and very far from easy. Confusion, though unco...
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The Meditation Experience: Can shame serve a positive purpose?
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. Can shame serve a positive purpose? Shame is one of the destructive emotions. When it arises inside you (all of us experience it from time to time) look closely and see how your very body shrinks in size. A serious bout of shame makes you shut down, close up shop, and try to disappear. Self-hate is also likely to arise. Then you can’t adequately deal with what is occurring – or even learn from it. What a remarkable learning to realize the polarity exists...
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The Meditation Experience: Building a Meditation Practice
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. Building a Meditation Practice. How is your meditation going? Are you finding the twenty to thirty minutes each day that's needed to build a practice? If not, try to make meditation the first thing you do in the morning. Yes, I know that might mean having to get up earlier, but I do believe it's worth it. With your awareness on both relax and blank, you are more likely to move into a deep meditative state. And let me know how it works. Psychotherapists c...
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The Meditation Experience: No Agenda
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. We come to our Meditation Mornings to sit. At best we sit as if we were rocks, each of us with our own center of gravity. We have no other agenda except to be aware. It's a strange thing to do, to sit. People "relax" "waste time" or "hang out" but most never - not once in a life time - do they sit with awareness. Sitting is a powerful act, even a rebellious act since it is an alternative to the frantic busyness in our culture. Psychotherapists can teach ...
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The Meditation Experience: What does it mean to spend a day sitting in meditation?
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. What does it mean to spend a day sitting in meditation? For me it means. Sitting in noble silence, which is a way to know people without having to go through a forest of words. A chance to study the mind, which includes listening to my internal talk and slowly, as my meditation deepens, finding those precious gaps when I am silent within. Barbara Miller Fishman, Ph.D. Psychotherapists can teach depressed people to become aware of their internal talk....
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The Meditation Experience: No Self and Shame
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. No Self and Shame. I like the way you, Charlie, connect "no self" with the capacity to release yourself from shame. And the experience of no self arises as the meditative observer becomes steadier, more able to stake a claim, to mental space. We observe our internal thought, feel the body sensations that accompany it and simply be with it until they fade or change or show signs of instability. Barbara Miller Fishman, Ph.D. Whether in a psychotherapy offi...
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The Meditation Experience: Feeling homesick
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. Barbara Miller Fishman, Ph.D. A meditation-inspired psychotherapy offers people a way of understanding their problems as well as a way of healing them. This full day retreat offers an opportunity to engage in learning mindfulness psychotherapy. The approach to working with others that I advocate is one in which spontaneity and humanness is extended to others.". Meditation is a method for moving beyond the isolating tendency of the thinking mind. Narcissi...
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The Meditation Experience: Acting From Shame
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MY BLOG HAS MOVED. Anyone can post to MY NEW BLOG. That you said you would do it and you did it, is great! And you felt competence pleasure, which is an important awareness. Recall, however, that everything is interconnected. An action arising from shame will affect the action itself; for instance, you might put yourself down as you act from shame. And that’s not positive. What is truly positive is that you weren’t totally caught up in shame. Barbara Miller Fishman, Ph.D. Psychotherapists can teach depre...