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David Dunn

A Meditation With Nature: A Special Way To Bring in the New Year - 0 views

  • This meditation needs to be performed outside where you are physically present with Mother Earth and the Universe that surrounds her.  Find a quiet place outside, where you are away from other people, traffic noises, and alone with the beautiful sounds of nature.
  • Grounding is simply a word that describes the strengthening of your connection with earth.  It is an exercise that should be performed each morning as well as before meditation.  The process of grounding helps you to remain anchored in this dimension as you move through other dimensions in this meditation.
  • To ground yourself, close your eyes, breathe gently and deeply.  Imagine that there is a strong energy that flows up and down your spine, and then down through both legs.  Stay with this energy as it moves up and down your spine and legs – it’s a powerful energy.
Tara Picudella

Pre and post monsoon monitoring of ground water quality in region near Kupwad MIDC, San... - 0 views

  • Degradation of water resources in rural and urban area due to industrialization, urbanization, overpopulation
  • resources are being deteriorated
  • As water is one of the basic amenity for human being, waterborne diseases have adverse impact on human health
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      diseases can come about from overpopulation
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  • samples are out of the highest desirable limit or exceeded the permissible limit
Emily Vargas

Yoga: Social work as Awareness:Mindfulness | What is a Social Worker? - 1 views

  • the more I am coming to realize that the qualities social workers embody are the same qualities that are required in yoga practice
  • Noting this, yoga appears to originate from the idea that yoga is a state of mind before it is a physical gesture.
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
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  • Are these not the same qualities to those that social workers and helping professionals exemplify and humanize?
  • We side with clients and teach them to come back to themselves, to regulate, to be mindful, to act with intention, to breath.
  • Social workers help clients to develop coping skills that ground them back into the reality of their perceived threat
  • We do this kindly, without judgment, and we ask them to do the same towards themselves.
  • Be mindful – follow the breath – feel your body and where it is heavy and where it is open. Experience the moments and watch them pass by. If you find a thought that doesn’t serve, just let it go. Watch your thoughts go by. Choose the thought that best serves you and let the other ones go.”
  • This idea brings us one step closer to knowing we can choose which thoughts to act upon
  • . It is the silence between the thoughts that is considered to awareness in yoga,
  • In work with clients it is important to get them to recognize that it is not their behavior but the thought guiding their behavior that needs attention
  • Just as in social work practice, yoga is first a state of mind
  • Social workers empower clients in an effort to help them learn to be mindful and aware so they can fold into themselves and introspect to find insights and create change
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
kurt stavenhagen

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker - 1 views

  • toilets, zippers, and cylinder locks. They were then asked to write detailed, step-by-step explanations of how the devices work, and to rate their understanding again. Apparently, the effort revealed to the students their own ignorance, because their self-assessments dropped
  • illusion of explanatory depth,
  • People believe that they know way more than they actually do
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  • no sharp boundary between one person’s ideas and knowledge” and “those of other members” of the group
  • favor (or oppose) an immigration ban without knowing what I’m talking about
  • The farther off base they were about the geography, the more likely they were to favor military intervention
  • As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding,”
  • If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless.
  • much detail as they could, the impacts of implementing each one. Most people at this point ran into trouble
  • pent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we’d realize how clueless we are and moderate our views.
  • science is as a system that corrects for people’s natural inclinations
  • by researchers who have no motive to confirm them. And this, it could be argued, is why the system has proved so successful.
  • field may be dominated by squabbles, but, in the end, the methodology prevails
  • experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,
  • At this point, something curious happened. The students in the high-score group said that they thought they had, in fact, done quite well—significantly better than the average student—even though, as they’d just been told, they had zero grounds for believing this
  • Once formed,” the researchers observed dryly, “impressions are remarkably perseverant.”
  • Even after the evidence “for their beliefs has been totally refuted, people fail to make appropriate revisions in those beliefs,” the researchers noted
  • that reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational
  • “confirmation bias,” the tendency people have to embrace information that supports their beliefs and reject information that contradicts them.
  • Those who’d started out pro-capital punishment were now even more in favor of it; those who’d opposed it were even more hostile.
  • Such a mouse, “bent on confirming its belief that there are no cats around,” would soon be dinner.
  • we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own.
  • ewer than fifteen per cent changed their minds in step two.
  • getting screwed by the other members of our group.
  • There was little advantage in reasoning clearly, while much was to be gained from winning arguments
  • roviding people with accurate information doesn’t seem to help; they simply discount it. Appealing to their emotions may work better, but doing so is obviously antithetical to the goal of promoting sound science. “The challenge that remains,” they write toward the end of their book, “is to figure out how to address the tendencies that lead to false scientific belief.
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