March 2007 - Stress Alive

I do love the music. Listening to it. Feeling it. Tapping my toes to it. Getting lost in it. Ah yes, the music.

I love writing music, also. Creative energy can be hugely cathartic. So many experiences leading to so many emotions leading to so many songs. There is, after all, a Tale in Every Tune.

I have recently placed a 7 - song CD, Back To My Home, on CafePress. In reviewing each song I find that I am able to step back in time and relive the moments and circumstances leading up to each tune. Get Back To My Home, for instance, speaks to the primal longing for peace and comfort in a world of change and turmoil.

Good Morning, on the other hand, is a celebration of starting fresh and rejuvenated each day, with a clean and energized slate. Full Agenda, speaks to quite a contrary experience. Those times when the day seems full of clutter, expectations, stress, and distance from self.

Love That Lasts Forever is a tribute to the stream of love that always is, whether or not one is in a relationship. Carencia is a sad song, though with hope. The muse was the long pregnancy of a horse, and the disappointment of Carencia being born nearly dead and only lasting for minutes at best.

All Work/No Play may be my favorite. It wraps itself around the experience of working too much without balancing out with play, relaxation, and regeneration. Let Your Dreams Carry You is a song written to 'escort' a young child off to sleep, and seems an apt ending to the CD.

Samples of each of these tunes are available at Soft Sounds. I hope you will listen, enjoy, and comment.

Be The Music!!

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Stress, And All That That Entails

March 30th 2007 16:07

I consider myself an ambassador for Stress Wellness and Stress Management. I have discovered that, while most people acknowledge that stress in general is a big problem, few will decide to take steps in their world to begin adopting approaches and strategies that will empower them to effectively manage the stress of life.

There are so many consequences of mis-managed stress, and so many ways to effectively manage the stress that fetters many and reduces unique thriving capacity. I urge and welcome dialogue on what consequences others have experienced as a result of mis-managed stress. Also, share what has worked.

How Has Stress Impacted Your Life?

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Magical Cell Phones, Or, How Crazy Is This?!?

March 27th 2007 03:15

I know, I know. I'm an old fart that may need to put a bit more energy into adjusting to the times. Yet, all I see is absurdity in this particular situation.

My 15y/o son has saved his money so that he can buy a cell phone that has the 'text-friendly' keyboard as well as the number pad for making 'voice' interactions. Now, he can click away at a much more comfortable pace with his numerous non-tangible friends.

I continue to ask why he (and his non-tangible gallery) don't just call and 'voice' each other. He says that it is just easier to text in certain circumstances. As a psychologist, I wonder as to the non-engaging nature of this texting.

But here is the real kicker: The new phone has a voice recognition function that allows you to speak into the phone so that the 'voiced' words can be translated into text.

SO YOU SPEAK INTO THE PHONE FOR THE PHONE TO CONVERT YOUR WORDS INTO TEXT!!!

Wait, what?

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Tits, Tats, & Neener-Neeners

March 22nd 2007 12:01

Though I am certain that reasonable discourse still exists, critical thinking and well-reasoned positions have been replaced with mindless and reactive rants, raves, and invitations to 'flame'. Be it political, social, emotional, or even spiritual, it seems many are so attached to a 'position' or 'school of thought' that meaningful engagement has become less about true interaction and more about finding relief from what I surmise can only be a dis-ease based in an unfortunate psycho-fragility.

Psycho-fragility. Not a place from which to base your arguments or beliefs or propaganda campaigns. Rather, a source from which healing can begin

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Why Would Life Be So Difficult?

March 19th 2007 16:37

I often wonder if the difficulty that life often presents is manufactured either individually or collectively by we humans. You know, we beings and entities that have the capacity for abstract thought. How much time, for instance, do you spend fretting and pining and worrying about this, that, or the other thing?

Perhaps the question of simplicity versus complexity comes to the fore. We, with our abstract thinking, have created some extremely complex tangible, intangible, physical, emotional, social, and even spiritual structures

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What About Love?

March 17th 2007 13:40

I've seen it so many times. Someone in the process of a divorce cannot imagine how they will ever find love again. Or the individual who has been single for-seemingly-ever is increasingly frustrated and stressed because there seems to be no relationship in sight. "Am I just not capable of love?" Such a question is understandable, though ultimately problematic.

When one person's identity is based on being with another person, then it is likely that the first person is not bringing all that he/she can be in the relationship. And, thusly, the other person is not getting the complete package

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The Predator

March 16th 2007 12:39

He will watch you from afar, for days if not weeks if not months. He will learn your habits, your routines, where you go and for how long. He may brush up against you in a store or an elevator, and perhaps have superficial conversation with you. "What a pleasant guy" you think.

He has learned where you live and he passes by several times a day. When he knows you are there, or when he knows you are somewhere else. It never hurts to get to know the habits of your family and neighbors. It never hurts to know as much as there is to know about you

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Texting, Instant Messaging, & Yes, Even Blogging

March 13th 2007 12:49

Electronic communications such as test messages, instant messages, email, and blogging have certainly niched their way into the collective psyche and consciousness of the modern world. It is not difficult to find someone, somewhere, at sometime tapping away at a keypad or keyboard. Click-click-click-click is the common sound of this relatively new form of communication.

Very convenient, efficient, and easy to squeeze into time frames that already represent squeezed time

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Who Shall I Blame?

March 10th 2007 23:29

Blaming others, I suspect, is a part of our human developmental learning curve. The more dependent on others, the more likely to blame others for our circumstance if said circumstance is deemed unpleasant. Am I to blame, for instance, if as an infant one of the fleshy breasts that I use for food is not available when I am hungry? If at that point I had a capacity to feel separate from my breast-source, I would likely indicate through my primitive and inarticulate actions that the carrier of the breasts is responsible for this breach.

As we do develop into some degree of separateness our capacity for abstract thought and self-responsibility often lags. Not enough ‘real life’ lessons and hard knocks to shed some light on the ultimate likelihood that each of us is responsible for most of what takes place in the form of what we call our lives

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In The Heart

March 9th 2007 13:55

A young man alone
Striving for autonomy
The world too large to know

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Let's See, What Does That Mean?

March 7th 2007 13:49

Many readers are familiar, at least superficially, with the projective psychological test called the Rorschach Ink Blot test. It is a concoction, born of the Freudian psychodynamic school of psychology whereby individuals subjectively interpret what they see in the various 'blots' shown to them. The tester/psychologist then interprets the 'data' and explores further with the client just what the hell may be going on within the murky depths of said psyche.

I though it may be fun--good for a few grins and giggles, you know--to create a Blog version of subjective test so that we can all become just a bit more familiar with each other. Or, if severe pathology makes itself manifest, then perhaps we can tap into the synergy of the blog and help a blogging colleague out

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Adolescent Brain Disorder

March 5th 2007 23:55

Remarkably, even those with years of experience in people processes may fail to see what exists directly in front of them. Particularly, if they are the proud owners/disowners/disownees of an adolescent in full-force post-puberty expression and identity erection, er...erecting, er...formation.

Sweet Jesus, take me now. I do belive my work is done here. For I have done all I can

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