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November 2012
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I used to believe that I wasn’t an angry person...By Beverley Glick
Posted on Fri, 30 November 2012
I used to believe that I wasn’t an angry person. That I didn’t “do” anger. I avoided loud people, rarely had arguments and condemned aggression. Anger did not fit into my self-image. No, I was the nice girl - calm, balanced, sensible, controlled, reasoned, a people-pleaser. All sweetness and light. Except that I wasn’t. A covert hostility lurked beneath the surface, which manifested itself in cutting remarks, quick wit and sarcasm.
I was conflict-averse so instead of confronting situations, I withdrew and allowed resentment and hurt to build and fester - never realising that this was simply anger in a different form.
In order to maintain my poise, I had to bury a lot of poison. During my “nice” phase I would be shocked if someone said I seemed aloof, or that they...Read More
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Cultivating the soul. By Pennie Quaile-Pearce
Posted on Fri, 30 November 2012
Apuleius a Roman writer said, “Everyone should know that you can’t live in any way than by cultivating the soul.” Care can also mean cultivation; watching and participating as the seed of soul unfolds into the vast creation we call character or personality, with history, a community, a language and a unique mythology. Cultivation of the soul implies a lifelong husbanding of raw materials. Farmers cultivate their land; all of us cultivate our souls. The aim of soul work therefore is not adjustment to accepted norms or to an image of the statistically healthy individual. Rather, the goal is a richly extraordinary life, connected to society and nature, woven into the culture of family, nation and globe. The idea is not to be superficially adjusted, but to be profoundly connected in the heart to ancestors and to living brothers and...Read More
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It is impossible to define precisely what the soul is… By Pennie Quaile Pearce
Posted on Wed, 28 November 2012
It is impossible to define precisely what the soul is… however here are a couple of definitions…
1. The animating and vital principle in humans credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
I find that definition is an intellectual enterprise, and quite frankly not of much use when dealing with the soul. However, it is an important first step. For me, it is that bigger part of myself that innate intelligence, my unique divinity that drives who I am in this world and helps me live a harmless life in harmony with everything else. When...Read More
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Loss of connection to our soul. By Pennie Quaile Pearce
Posted on Tue, 27 November 2012
The great malady of the twentieth century, which is implicated in all of our troubles and is affecting us all individually and socially is “loss of connection to our soul”. When soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away, it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, acting out, negative thought forms, destructive patterns of behaviour, and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one; but the root problem is that we have lost our wisdom about the soul, even our interest in it. We have today few specialists of the soul to advise us when we succumb to moods and emotional pain, or when as a nation we find ourselves confronting a host of threatening evils. But within our history we do have remarkable sources of insight from people who wrote explicitly about the nature and...Read More
October 2012
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Laughter Yoga for Seniors
Posted on Tue, 30 October 2012
Seniors can truly benefit from Laughter Yoga. These 5 categories can help you explain how Laughter Yoga is so well suited to helping seniors live fully and meaningfully.
1. Adds More Laughter to Life
Laughter Yoga is ideally suited to helping seniors live a more laughing life. It does not rely upon a sense of humour or cognitive function. Therefore, anyone can laugh heartily. It also helps people understand that they do not need a reason to laugh. As we grow older, we laugh less and less. Because of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, seniors often times can’t get jokes or find anything funny. This is because humour is mental and cognitive phenomena. Therefore Laughter Yoga is ideally suited for seniors to do laughter as a form of exercise and get multiple health benefits from it.
2. Promotes Physical Health
As we grow older because of wear and tear most seniors have...Read More
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