Download or read book Your Mindful Compass written by Andrea Maloney Schara and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
Download or read book Shri Sai Satcharita written by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards Hilaritas written by Minna Koivuniemi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages in Two Parts written by Thomas Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mountain Pool written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aristocratic lady travels alone to picturesque Monaco, expecting a peaceful vacation. It turns into a place of horror for the woman, however, as she experiences something unspeakable at the artificial lake. She details her experiences in a letter to a dear friend. This grim tale was Maupassant's dive into something new, and his experiment paid off - creating a chilling story that rivals even the masters of the supernatural genre. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer. Famed for being a master of the short story, he also wrote travel books and occasionally dabbled in poetry. His stories mainly focus on the relationships between men and women sitting at crossroads in their lives - whether personal or professional. His dramatic flair is largely influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and is perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. The most notable of the 300 short stories that he wrote include 'Bel Ami', 'Une Vie', and 'The Dumpling'.
Download or read book Resonant Recoveries written by Jillian C. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians-from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more well-known musicians-engaged with music. Situated at the intersections of musicology, history, sound and performance studies, and psychology and trauma studies, Resonant Recoveries argues that modernists' compositions and musical activities were sonorous locations for managing and performing trauma. Through analysis of archival materials, French medical, philosophical, and literary texts, and the music produced between the wars, this book illuminates how music emerged during World War I as an embodied technology of consolation. Resonant Recoveries demonstrates that music making came to be understood by French interwar musicians as a consolatory practice that enhanced their abilities to remember lost loved ones, gave them opportunities to perform their grief publicly and privately, allowed them to create healing bonds of friendship, and soothed them with sonic vibrations and the rhythmically regular bodily movements required in order to perform many French neoclassical compositions. In revealing the importance music making held for interwar French musicians, this book refigures French modernist music as a therapeutic medium for creators, performers, and audiences, while also underlining the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people's emotional lives in music scholarship"--
Download or read book Jacob Menahem and Mimoun written by Marcel Benabou and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1998 National Jewish Book Award Winner for Autobiography/Memoir "A dry wit and surprising pathos infuse this "family epic," which turns out to be "merely" the telling of Benabou's failed attempt at creating his literary masterpiece. . . The reader shares his initial hopefulness as he details his younger self's ambitious plans for a family epic, founded in memory, supplemented by ever-growing mountains of scholarly documentation . . . and formally grounded in a literary model of the past that, ultimately, eludes him. In telling the stories of his three selected ancestors, Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun, Benabou notices that his youthful project has not disappeared. He's decided to let his book tell itself; he'll merely hitch himself to the story and go along for the ride in this artistic tour-de force, by turns playful and serious."--Kirkus Reviews Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun delves into Marcel Bénabou's uncommon family history while reflecting on the mysteries of memory, the past, and writing. Born in Morocco in 1939 to a Jewish family, Bénabou left his home at age seventeen to study ancient history in Paris. Bénabou's memoir returns to his childhood in Morocco--to his parents, their home, and the Jewish community in Meknes. At the same time he accounts for all that has changed, including his very different life in Paris and the disappearance of the world of his childhood. He notes how he has turned from his family's wish that he become a rabbi to his absorption, as an adult, in several millennia of secular literature. And he worries about how his "family epic"--an epic meant to include the history of Morocco's Jews--has become a book about himself and his inability to write the great book he has long imagined--the book one owes oneself and the world. The impossibility of fully recovering the past hovers over his memories. And the impossibility of writing a book about that past is also there--an impossibility that Bénabou acknowledges, delineates, and, in a real if also provisional sense, transcends. In his inspired attention to that impossibility, Bénabou has written a book that transforms absence into presence and the past into rich matter for the present. Marcel Bénabou lives in Paris and pursues his current positions as professor at the University of Paris and as the permanent provisional secretary of Oulipo, that unsettling association of indefatigably innovative writers. Steven Rendall is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently and the translator of many books including Jürgen Habermas's Berlin Republic (Nebraska 1997). Warren Motte is a professor of French at the University of Colorado. He is the author of several books including Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporay Literature (Nebraska 1995).
Download or read book About the Contemplative Life written by Philo (of Alexandria.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devenir Mentalement Plus Resistant En Bodybuilding En Utilisant La Meditation written by Joseph Correa (Instructeur Certifie de Meditation) and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devenir Mentalement Plus Solide en Bodybuilding en Utilisant la Méditation est l'une des meilleures façons de vous préparer pour atteindre votre véritable potentiel. Vous nourrir correctement et la formation sont deux des pièces du puzzle, mais il vous faut la troisième pièce pour avoir d'excellents résultats. La troisième pièce est la force mentale et c'est ce que vous pourrez obtenir par la méditation.Les athlètes qui pratiquent la méditation régulièrement verront les résultats suivants :- Plus de confiance durant la compétition.- Un niveau de stress réduit.- Une meilleure capacité à se concentrer pendant de longues périodes de temps.- Une fatigue musculaire réduite.- Des temps de récupération plus rapides après la compétition ou la formation.- Meilleure capacité de contrôle du stress et de la nervosité.- Contrôle des émotions lorsqu'ils sont sous pression.Que demander de plus pour un bodybuilder?Lorsqu'ils considèrent déverrouiller leur véritable potentiel, la plupart des athlètes se concentrent sur des objectifs physiques et nutritionnels mais négligent souvent le développement de leur potentiel intérieur grâce à des pratiques comme la méditation et la visualisation. Il est commun de vouloir observer les résultats des exercices physiques, mais ce que de nombreux athlètes ne savent pas, c'est qu'il a été prouve que la méditation améliore aussi la santé physique et la performance.Atteindre votre performance de pointe exige que vous vous entraîniez et stimuliez le corps et l'esprit. Ne pas en tenir compte peut être une raison principale pour laquelle certains athlètes ont du mal à passer au niveau suivant. Afin de faire de votre mieux, vous devez accepter que le corps et l'esprit soient ce qui va vous rendre entier, ce qui va vous compléter.La méditation en tant qu'exercice pour l'esprit vous aide à renforcer votre esprit, tout comme vous souhaitez renforcer votre corps, à travers une évolution constante lorsque vous la pratiquez.Le conditionnement physique, une bonne nutrition, et la méditation sont les trois clés pour parvenir à un état de fonctionnement optimal. La plupart du temps, de nombreux athlètes n'accordent pas autant d'attention qu'ils le devraient à la méditation, car ils sont principalement concernes par leur apparence et inquiets de la façon dont les autres les perçoivent.Dans la méditation, les résultats ne sont pas quelque chose que vous verrez physiquement, mais plutôt dans la façon dont vous vous sentez et dans votre nouvelle capacité de contrôler vos pensées et émotions. En commençant vos séances de méditation et en étant discipliné et cohérent, vous remarquerez des améliorations significatives dans la façon dont vous répondez à l'anxiété, la pression et le stress qui sont trois des principaux problèmes la plupart des athlètes ont du mal à surmonter dans la vie, et en essayant d'atteindre votre véritable potentiel.Changez votre vie et commencer à utiliser la méditation pour dépasser vos limites et pour vous libérer!(c) 2015 Correa Media Group
Download or read book Devenir Mentalement Plus Resistant En Natation En Utilisant La Meditation written by Joseph Correa (Instructeur Certifie de Meditation) and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devenir Mentalement Plus Résistant en Natation en Utilisant la Méditation est l'une des meilleures façons de vous préparer pour atteindre votre véritable potentiel. Vous nourrir correctement et la formation sont deux des pièces du puzzle, mais il vous faut la troisième pièce pour avoir d'excellents résultats. La troisième pièce est la force mentale et c'est ce que vous pourrez obtenir par la méditation.Les athlètes qui pratiquent la méditation régulièrement verront les résultats suivants :- Plus de confiance durant la compétition.- Un niveau de stress réduit.- Une meilleure capacité à se concentrer pendant de longues périodes de temps.- Une fatigue musculaire réduite.- Des temps de récupération plus rapides après la compétition ou la formation.- Meilleure capacité de contrôle du stress et de la nervosité.- Contrôle des émotions lorsqu'ils sont sous pression.Que demander de plus pour un nageur?Lorsqu'ils considèrent déverrouiller leur véritable potentiel, la plupart des athlètes se concentrent sur des objectifs physiques et nutritionnels mais négligent souvent le développement de leur potentiel intérieur grâce à des pratiques comme la méditation et la visualisation. Il est commun de vouloir observer les résultats des exercices physiques, mais ce que de nombreux athlètes ne savent pas, c'est qu'il a été prouve que la méditation améliore aussi la santé physique et la performance.Atteindre votre performance de pointe exige que vous vous entraîniez et stimuliez le corps et l'esprit. Ne pas en tenir compte peut être une raison principale pour laquelle certains athlètes ont du mal à passer au niveau suivant. Afin de faire de votre mieux, vous devez accepter que le corps et l'esprit soient ce qui va vous rendre entier, ce qui va vous compléter.La méditation en tant qu'exercice pour l'esprit vous aide à renforcer votre esprit, tout comme vous souhaitez renforcer votre corps, à travers une évolution constante lorsque vous la pratiquez.Le conditionnement physique, une bonne nutrition, et la méditation sont les trois clés pour parvenir à un état de fonctionnement optimal. La plupart du temps, de nombreux athlètes n'accordent pas autant d'attention qu'ils le devraient à la méditation, car ils sont principalement concernes par leur apparence et inquiets de la façon dont les autres les perçoivent.Dans la méditation, les résultats ne sont pas quelque chose que vous verrez physiquement, mais plutôt dans la façon dont vous vous sentez et dans votre nouvelle capacité de contrôler vos pensées et émotions. En commençant vos séances de méditation et en étant discipliné et cohérent, vous remarquerez des améliorations significatives dans la façon dont vous répondez à l'anxiété, la pression et le stress qui sont trois des principaux problèmes la plupart des athlètes ont du mal à surmonter dans la vie, et en essayant d'atteindre votre véritable potentiel.Changez votre vie et commencer à utiliser la méditation pour dépasser vos limites et pour vous libérer!(c) 2015 Correa Media Group
Download or read book The Power of Groups in Youth Sport written by Mark W. Bruner and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on understanding the key underlying group processes that contribute to youth sport experiences, The Power of Groups in Youth Sport provides an innovative and expansive overview of the research in group dynamics within youth sports. The first section of the book examines topics relating to forming and structuring groups, including team selection, athlete socialization, normative expectations, roles, coach and athlete leadership, social identity, and more. The second section reviews concepts associated with group functioning and management, such as cohesion, subgroups, motivational climate, teamwork, and team building. This book concludes with a series of chapters focused on specific developmental considerations in youth sports that are often overlooked in group dynamics research including parental involvement, bullying and hazing, mental health, ,and disability and accessibility. - Synthesizes the research of group dynamics within the context of youth sport - Highlights how groups form and function - Discusses the role of parents and peers on youth sport experiences and development - Suggests ways to advance the field of group dynamics in youth sports
Download or read book Cultural Sport Psychology written by Robert J. Schinke and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cultural Sport Psychology is the first full text to offer a complete and authoritative look at this developing field by a diverse group of established and aspiring contributors. As clinicians develop their practice to include more diverse athletes and sport psychologists expand to work in multicultural settings, this text will undeniably spark increased discussion, reflection, and research of cultural considerations in sport psychology practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Download or read book Social Media in Industrial China written by Xinyuan Wang and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker. Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’. Wang’s fascinating study explores the full range of preconceptions commonly held about Chinese people – their relationship with education, with family, with politics, with ‘home’ – and argues why, for this vast population, it is time to reassess what we think we know about contemporary China and the evolving role of social media.
Download or read book Devenir Mentalement Plus R sistant en Bodybuilding en Utilisant la M ditation written by Joseph Correa and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La mEditation est l'une des meilleures faCons de vous prEparer pour atteindre votre vEritable potentiel. Vous nourrir correctement et la formation sont deux des piEces du puzzle, mais il vous faut la troisiEme piEce pour avoir d'excellents rEsultats. La troisiEme piEce est la force mentale et c'est ce que vous pourrez obtenir par la mEditation. Les athlEtes qui pratiquent la mEditation rEguliErement verront les rEsultats suivants - Plus de confiance durant la compEtition. - Un niveau de stress rEduit. - Une meilleure capacitE A se concentrer pendant de longues pEriodes de temps. - Une fatigue musculaire rEduite. - Des temps de rEcupEration plus rapides aprEs la compEtition ou la formation. - Meilleure capacitE de contrOle du stress et de la nervositE. - ContrOle des Emotions lorsqu'ils sont sous pression. Que demander de plus pour un bodybuilder? Lorsqu'ils considErent dEverrouiller leur vEritable potentiel, la plupart des athlEtes se concentrent sur des objectifs physiques et nutritionnels mais nEgligent souvent le dEveloppement de leur potentiel intErieur grAce A des pratiques comme la mEditation et la visualisation. Il est commun de vouloir observer les rEsultats des exercices physiques, mais ce que de nombreux athlEtes ne savent pas, c'est qu'il a EtE prouve que la mEditation amEliore aussi la santE physique et la performance. Atteindre votre performance de pointe exige que vous vous entraIniez et stimuliez le corps et l'esprit. Ne pas en tenir compte peut Etre une raison principale pour laquelle certains athlEtes ont du mal A passer au niveau suivant. Afin de faire de votre mieux, vous devez accepter que le corps et l'esprit soient ce qui va vous rendre entier, ce qui va vous complEter. La mEditation en tant qu'exercice pour l'esprit vous aide A renforcer votre esprit, tout comme vous souhaitez renforcer votre corps, A travers une Evolution constante lorsque vous la pratiquez. Le conditionnement physique, une bonne nutrition, et la mEditation sont les trois clEs pour parvenir A un Etat de fonctionnement optimal. La plupart du temps, de nombreux athlEtes n'accordent pas autant d'attention qu'ils le devraient A la mEditation, car ils sont principalement concernes par leur apparence et inquiets de la faCon dont les autres les perCoivent. Dans la mEditation, les rEsultats ne sont pas quelque chose que vous verrez physiquement, mais plutOt dans la faCon dont vous vous sentez et dans votre nouvelle capacitE de contrOler vos pensEes et Emotions. En commenCant vos sEances de mEditation et en Etant disciplinE et cohErent, vous remarquerez des amEliorations significatives dans la faCon dont vous rEpondez A l'anxiEtE, la pression et le stress qui sont trois des principaux problEmes la plupart des athlEtes ont du mal A surmonter dans la vie, et en essayant d'atteindre votre vEritable potentiel. Changez votre vie et commencer A utiliser la mEditation pour dEpasser vos limites et pour vous libErer
Download or read book Metamorphoses written by Emanuele Coccia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.
