Stress Alive

Time is a funny thing. It seems we wrap and organize our brains around it and it becomes something that leads in many cases to stress. Hmmm--no wonder the mindfulness movement is so popular. Being in the moment is in a way, about timelessness. And we seek it in so many ways, some healthy and some not.

In our point/counter-point culture of 'valuing' time and being burdened by time, there are many silf-help practitioners speaking to the issue. "Manage time" or "make priority list" or "take ten seconds" and on and on and on...

HOW DO YOU 'DO' TIME?]

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Personal Peace, Baby!!!

March 31st 2009 12:45

Now, more than ever, people are missing something they are often unable to even identify. Because it is easier to describe ‘all that is bad’ in our lives—the unfulfilled relationship; the ongoing financial stress; the never feeling good enough; the sense of being victimized by a battery of people, places, things, and even circumstances—our eyes are often taken off the target. Away from that which is available right here, right now, in the present. Even our modern day gurus and professed authorities speak more to pathology, dysfunction, disability, and maintaining a problem-oriented focus while attempting to help individuals clarify and mentally organize out of whatever ongoing difficulty they are experiencing. We psychologically diagnose, politically contest, financially bankrupt, and spiritually long for something unseen. All in service to finding something we know is missing yet continue to detour and distract from.

The real issue?!? What is it that we truly wish for? Couched underneath the social acceptance, financial security, political correctness, social standing, and more, what is primary seems to be Personal Peace. And, paradoxically, it can be a long and confusing path.

In the spirit of ferreting out the 'real issue', I humbly ask you, of blog-world, to answer this one simple question:

First Name:_____________ Gender:__________ Age:_____

Please describe, in one to five sentences, what Personal Peace means to you as an individual:

Again, thank you for contributing to this emerging movement.

In peace,

deorre

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Wow!!! Brushing Myself Off...

March 24th 2009 16:25

Whew...what the hell? Orble. This is Orble. This is stressalive?!? Holy shit. Where have I been. For all you know, prison or some other psycho-fugue state of being. Whatever the case may be, I am back.

My focus at this juncture of blogreer (Career) will be on Personal Peace, and the pending movement of the personal peace project. Will surely need to weave instances of being precariously civilized, as that is just a part of me. And, quite frankly, all of you too.

Got to go, hopefully not for another year. The community that blogs together grows together.

Out.

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Seven Primal Principles Of Marginally Effective People

January 3rd 2008 16:54

I have read so many books that will help me improve, find my path, create my path, love, and in general empower me to become more effective and ‘all that I can be.’ Because, I detect, highly effective people (HEP) are what we all aspire to be. Yes?

I wonder, though, if we don’t leave something behind while investing time, energy, and focus on becoming as on top of our game as we can possibly become. In the spirit of that sense of wondering, I hope to ‘lower the bar’ by identifying seven primal values and principles of marginally effective people. Seven is the number often used, say the success gurus, because that is the number that will not bore us but will not over-stimulate us

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Bush Traumatic Stress Disorder

January 2nd 2008 01:56

After nearly eight years of Mr. George Bush as President of the United States, I find I have changed. For better or for worse, I have lost my youthful naiveté. I find it more and more difficult to see the wonder in every moment through the eyes of an innocent child. I no longer believe that people are inherently good.

Instead, I trust fewer and fewer people. I have seen that if they are not out right liars, then they will spin words and phrases into faux meaning that seems in service to unfinished psycho-issues and overt greed. I am told that this is the price to be paid to be safe from all the terror that is in the world

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Smiles

December 23rd 2007 05:11

While I love smiles in general, when they come from the faces of young ones I am tickled all the more. Eyes and smiles go very well together, and give information about the other. That may be why the adults who have become criminals have smiles that are incongruent with what is in their eyes and other attributes.

Driving up to a stop light the other night, I was witness to a young teen (at least 16y/o I suppose) also at the light, on her phone to (fill in the blank). Likely a peer. Laughing and smiling and essentially seeming extremely happy

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Smiles

December 23rd 2007 04:47

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Being Nature

November 18th 2007 03:55

When I am out in the nature---you know, trees, and birds, and bees, and weeds, and running water, and poison oak, and other things non-civilized, I SOOOOO don't know the classifications and labels of all that bound. I wonder, when out there in the nature with those who know the classifications, order, label, and other things cognitive, if they are at one with it all. I suppose it reduces to what it means, individually, to be 'at one with it all'.

If one identifies oneself as nature, as part of nature, and as an expression of nature, I wonder if one may need to shift or re-vision what it means to 'go all cognitive' on the very nature that is revered. Classifying, ordering, labeling, and defining, all this new-brain activity seeming to emerge from a fear of who and what we are at a very basic level. I leave the city, for Christ's sake, to get out of my head and into something else

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Everybody Is A Star

October 22nd 2007 17:32

Imagine, if you will, a world in which all may thrive in their own unique way. Offering the individual gifts and talents and skills and capacities and proclivities that they bring to the table in the spirit of a collective, if you will, diversity that is nothing more or nothing less than what some several years ago coined 'bio-mimicry'.

What, one may ponder, is my connection with that nice tree that stands firm amongst the fences and houses? How, one may query, can I even hope to understand what that snail 'darting' across the sidewalk may be experiencing? And, one may question in urgency, "WHEN THE HELL DO I GET PAID

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When Parents Die

September 8th 2007 05:14

A friend of mine recently lost his father. The old man was leaving behind a significant legacy, financially, genetically, and in so many ways that are simply intangible. He was, for instance, very active in fusing traditional Japanese culture and contemporary American culture here in our little niche on the edge of the continent.

So difficult to find the right words to say to one who has lost a parent. Even when it is known that the passing will come soon, no planning can help organize a mind and heart for such. I was speaking to my friend about this the other day, and seemed at a loss for words

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