Apes found suffering self-doubt - life - 18 April 2010 - New Scientist

 
Apes found suffering self-doubt - life - 18 April 2010 - New Scientist

We are not the only ones who find ourselves questioning if we can or cannot do the things we do, and with our close genetic lineage I am surprised it has taking science this long to have figured this one out...wait a minute, didn't science spend millions of dollars to bomb the moon with a missile?

The Necessities of Life

So a woman who is very dear to me was cleaning out her daughters backpack and found a note from the school that contained a very strong message on the necessities of Life, and this is what the note said~

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:

- Share everything.
- Play fair.
- Don't hit people.
- Put things back where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don't take thing that aren't yours.
- Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Wash your hands before you eat.
- Flush.
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Take a nap every afternoon.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup; the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice are even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - 

the biggest word of all LOOK.

 Then this woman of heart continued with her thoughts in such a way that I choose not to alter it in any form, now she did use a ten dollar word in this last part and to be honest....it kind of turned me on, see if you can catch it~

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true; no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

What a wonderful way to summarize it all wouldn't you care to agree? Oh, and you win cookie points for guessing what the $10 word is....I'd give you brownie points if it was not for the fact that I am more a cookie kinda guy. 

Love

What are unconditional self-acceptance and self-love?

To accept and love yourself unconditionally is to:

* Place no condition on yourself as to how to behave or what to be in order to receive self-acceptance and self-love.
* Not use "if-then" clauses in establishing conditions for accepting and loving yourself.
* Take a risk to be open and vulnerable to who you are with no preset limits or expectations.
* Accept and love yourself for the fact that you exist rather than for what you do.
* Give yourself the respect and latitude to be yourself rather than to be what others want or expect you to be.
* Set the stage for yourself to feel warmth, caring and concern for yourself which results in your growing in self-esteem and self-worth.

How do you feel when you accept and love yourself unconditionally?

When you are the recipient of unconditional self-acceptance and self-love from yourself, you feel:

* Free to be yourself.
* You have value and worth.
* Wanted and desired for you as you are rather than for what you do.
* Listened to and understood.
* That you have yourself to offer others which in itself is worthwhile.
* Warm, cared for and nurtured.
* You are OK just the way you are.
* That there is no need to wear a mask or to act in any way just to please another.
* Free to be yourself and to open up your feelings with no fear of rejection or non-approval.
* That it is possible to take the risk to be vulnerable in order to have open and honest relationships with others.
* No fear of retribution or reprisal from others if you should make a mistake or experience a failure.
* That there are no conditions set on your relationships with yourself.

It is quite simple and there is no need to over complicate things. Step out into the world and look into the sky, smile at yourself and realize that it is all a game and you can choose what you want to feel. Let us choose LOVE... 

Thanks go out to Cosmic Consciousness on facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1796193020 and my girl Jessica Comet Energy Meranda for always being a wonderful source of information.

Mercury Retrograde on Sunday the 18th

Mercury - the planet of communication -- turns retrograde in Taurus at 4:06 am UT - April 18 (12:06 am PST- April 18, 9:06 pm EST- April 17). On a basic trivial level, Mercury retrograde means communication delays and foul-ups. Prepare for crashed computers, missing files, emails going astray and friends and business associates not getting back promptly. There will be delays in getting contracts or agreements signed. It is a time that exercises one's patience, nothing catastrophic will happen -- things will all just take more time and will have obstacles.

But there is a deeper meaning to Mercury retrograde which is about looking inwards and finding time in our busy schedule to ask ourselves fundamental questions. So instead of getting uptight about hold-ups, a Mercury retrograde period should be treated as a blessing in disguise. Just as in music, a pause is as important if not more dramatic than a note, here is our chance to go deeper, be reflective, think and not act, listen rather than speak.

Mercury is the most restless of the planets, so it is easy to get our attention and focus scattered so widely, that we are bogged down in detail and trivia, and find ourselves going around in circles. Retrograde periods give as an opportunity to straighten out our thinking. Mercury retrograde is when you can straighten out your thinking. So while we might become very absent-minded during these weeks, this is also a time to enjoy our own company and let our imaginations wander at will. Who knows what inspiration we may come up with? 

http://www.evolvingdoor.ca/miscarticles/rxmerc.php this is an extra about Mercury Retrograde!  

Thanks goes out to Shirley Ponto for this information.