Pondering Elephants

09/11/2022

08/11/2022

Very Cognitive Hypnotherapy way of doing it https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/nov/05/i-have-never-eaten-cucumber-onion-or-an-egg-can-i-cure-my-extreme-food-phobias?fbclid=IwAR3kvpocAOR1dKSPCSLgrSsLfRD4yiSbbS3tfylM2lGJYb8dC2o_KU0NjKk

I’ve always been a fussy eater. Could an expert show me a life beyond the kids’ menu?

02/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIBhhdFmc5o I love this idea, about changing the words 'I have to' to 'I get to'

Do you have to, or d you get to? Words that can change how you feel about visiting the relatives.

03/03/2022

Some great thoughts about, elders, appreciation of community. Loved asking the question 'What is a person of honour to you', who are your tribe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzllB2SyxrM

The Pregnant Hag in Dialogue with Trevor Silvester: From law enforcement to offering young people safe experiences of initiation!Hi everyone!I proudly presen...

23/02/2022

I wish society would focus on the abilities of dyslexics instead of seeing this just as a disability. It's largely society that can't catch up with the genious within. If we could learn better how to help these people thrive, think of the out of the box thinkers we would be nurturing. We have a need for all ways of being in our communities. http://www.dyslexic-kids.org/dyslexic-heroes-poster/

All about dyslexia: Written for Kids

04/02/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EScK8eHGtA

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02/02/2022

It feels that so many bright stars don't realise this

02/02/2022

This is just so moving

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"In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”

27/01/2022

Love this thought

26/01/2022

I love this poem and the ending 'taking a breath for a friend who has passed'

20/01/2022

This is a key concept behind Cognitive Hypnotherapy summarised by Trevor. I am finding it something I am struggling to straddle in my current learning as I am becoming to realise how this is a key stone to my understanding of how to help in Therapy. It appears to be a key difference between how Cog Hyp is believed to work and how Counselling is believed to work. Counselling believes that all the answers are within you, which is something we believe too. Some people do seem to feel the need to just offload, perhaps this is important to those who don't have the opportunity to express themselves, this feels cathartic to them, to feel understood but what is the long term implication of these offloads? I still feel It's important that the Therapist is aware of their role and impact through summarising or offering metaphor to a client through the empathic building of the client therapist relationship. There appears to be a conflict between wanting to come across as empathetic and being able to work in an informed way, which may impact in the power relationship between client and therapist. Perhaps it's horses for courses. I have found some other papers on this and will include in the comments for those of you interested. Its a key stone ethical area for me I am currently researching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UK7NeVU8Ig

Find out why just talking about your problems isn't enough, in fact, it can make things worse.

16/01/2022

In the book 'Crazy Like Us' by Ethan Waters, observes how anorexia nervosa did not exist in Japan until the disease was portrayed on the news and symptoms expressed. The awareness of the symptoms seemingly lead to the creation of the disease and a heightened number of young people dying from these symptoms. It's the problem with the allocation of labels that may lead to making things concreate and perhaps creating illness through the very awareness of thinking a thing, a thing. I thought this idea related to this article https://bigthink.com/health/psychosomatic-illness-immune/?fbclid=IwAR1DhBce1RJj1ITd-ydXVmGGe3ZXa2CEKO4mlZTLYX7avguAYj_EthkR32U

The brain appears to remember immune responses, and memories can trigger them to happen again. This might explain some psychosomatic diseases.

16/01/2022

If you stress about waking up in the middle of the night this might interst you https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

14/01/2022

I think a lot of people could do with a 1 minute hug

12/01/2022

This is a really fascinating book about how the spread of American culture has homogenised the way the world goes mad. Really interesting how other cultures view and treat people that we might perceive as mad, depressed etc. Some of them are revered as inciteful, magical but not ill.