Angelle
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Angelle
core intellectual pursuits: yoga & body movement for the mind and Core intellectual pursuits
alluding to the fact that you do not learn in fight/flight mode, and that we need to be intentional in our practices to get the most out of our life experience.
science confirms that simply thinking about ANY object, event or scene changes your physiological state and can either drain your energy or replenish it. “Based on these and hundreds of other studies, we now have good evidence that your brain predicts your body’s responses by drawing on prior experiences with similar situations and objects, even... See more
Olga Kabel • Balance your "body budget" through movement, thoughts and relationships - Sequence Wiz
This passage explains how mental imagery alone can trigger real physical responses in our bodies by leveraging past experiences, highlighting the powerful connection between mind and body even in the absence of actual movement.
Over the course of evolution, the three pathways of the autonomic nervous system (dorsal, sympathetic, and ventral) emerged and formed the building blocks of the system (hierarchy). Our preferred place, the place where we find experiences of health, growth, and restoration, is anchored in the ventral vagal state of safety and connection. When we
... See moreDeborah A. Dana • Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money,... See more
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
core intellectual pursuits: philosophy and Core intellectual pursuits
gardening as a way to enhance the mind, body, spirit, and connect with the outter world.
when all the intellectual abstractions have been stripped away, and it is allowed to speak in its own native tongue, what it speaks of, with surprising simplicity and directness, is beauty, hope, and a mysteriously deeper order of coherence and aliveness flowing through this earthly terrain connecting it to the infinite wellsprings of cosmic
... See moreCynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
The latest research supports the notion that we have a natural ability to change the brain and body by thought alone, so that it looks biologically like some future event has already happened. Because you can make thought more real than anything else, you can change who you are from brain cell to gene, given the right understanding.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Breaking the habit of being yourself
Having studied myths, symbols, and religious material, Jung posited a collective unconscious, a deep layer of psychic experience common to humankind. This concept is unique to Jungian psychology. The repository of prototypical, instinctual human experience over millennia, the collective unconscious is a wellspring of inherent, universal patterns
... See moreJoseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
If we take the foundational idea that there’s a redemptive quality behind the darker, edgy, difficult emotions and experiences, then we are well on our way to making our house into a home.