Anne Muehlethaler
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... See moreA Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you from lifting your heart
toward heaven
only you.
It is in the middle of misery
that so
Effects of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Prosocial Behavior: Empirical and Meta-Analytic Evidence
iit.comillas.eduEFFECTS OF LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION ON PROSOCIAL
BEHAVIOR: EMPIRICAL AND META-ANALYTIC EVIDENCE
ABSTRACT
• Purpose. Brief Loving-Kindness meditation (LKM) is introduced here as a valid social
marketing intervention. LKM positively influences prosocial cognitions and affects.
However, it remains unclear whether brief meditation interventions can influence
prosocial behavior. This study aims to provide evidence of the effects of short LKM on
prosocial behavior.
Transportation theory (psychology)
en.wikipedia.orgIf at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern... See more
Emerson on selecting the right gift to give at Christmas and New Year (1844) | Online Library of Liberty
Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
the story theorist and celebrated commissioner of screen drama John Yorke has written that ‘the image every TV director in fact or fiction always looks for is the close-up of the human face as it registers change.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
The Masculine and Feminine Communication Styles - ResearchGate
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