Babies are just plain smarter than we are, at least if being smart means being able to learn something new.... They think, draw conclusions, make predictions, look for explanations and even do experiments…. In fact, scientists are successful precisely because they emulate what children do naturally."
Much of the human brain’s power derives from its massive synaptic interconnectivity. I spoke with Geoffrey West from the Santa Fe Institute last night. He observed that across species, synapses/neuron fan-out grows as a power law with brain mass.
At the age of 2 to 3 years old, children hit their peak with 10x the synapses and 2x the energy burn of an adult brain. And it’s all downhill from there.
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Are You a Son or Daughter of Dissociational Parents? Take This Brief Survey to Find Out.
Are You a Son or Daughter of Dissociational Parents? Take This Brief Survey to Find Out.
Dissociation Identity Disorder is a spectrum disorder with the most severe end of the spectrum considered a personality disorder. A parent can have several traits and not fit the personality disorder. Mothers and Fathers with only a few traits listed can negatively affect you in insidious ways.
(Check all those that apply to your relationship with your parents)
When you discuss your life issues with your parents, do they divert the discussion to talk about themselves?
When you discuss your feelings , do they try to top the feeling with her own?
Do your parents or parent act jealously of you?
Do they lack empathy for your feelings?
Do they only support those things you do that reflect on themselves as a “good parent"?
Have you consistently felt a lack of emotional closeness with your parents?
Have you consistently questioned whether or not your parents likes you or loves you?
Do your parents only do things for you when others can see?
When something happens in your life (accident, illness, divorce) does your parent/parents react with how it will affect them rather than how you feel?
Is or were your parents overly conscious of what others think (neighbours, friends, family, co-workers)?
Do your parents deny her/his own feelings?
Do your parent/s blame things on you or others rather than own responsibility for their feelings or actions?
Is or were your parent/s hurt easily and then carried a grudge for a long time without resolving the problem?
Do you feel you were a slave to your parent/s?
Do you feel you were responsible for your parents’s ailments or sickness (headaches, stress, illness)?
Did you have to take care of your parents’s physical needs as a child?
Do you feel unaccepted by your parents?
Do you feel your parents was critical of you?
Do you feel helpless in the presence of your parent?
Are you shamed often by your parent?
Do you feel your parents knows the real you?
Do your parents act like the world should revolve around them?
Do you find it difficult to be a separate person from your parent?
Do your parents appear phoney to you?
Do your parents appear phoney to you?
Do your parents want to control your choices?
Do your parent/s swing from egotistical to a depressed mood?
Did you feel you had to take care of your parent’s emotional needs as a child?
Do you feel manipulated in the presence of your parents?
Do you feel valued by parent for what you do rather than who you are?
Are your parents controlling, acting like a victim or martyr?
Do your parent/s make you act different from how you really feel?
Do your family compete with you?
Does your family always have to have things their way?
Note: All of these questions relate to dissociational traits. The more questions you checked, the more likely your parents has traits and this has caused some difficulty for you as a growing child and adult.
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Do your parent/s swing from egotistical to a depressed mood?
Did you feel you had to take care of your parent’s emotional needs as a child?
Do you feel manipulated in the presence of your parents?
Do you feel valued by parent for what you do rather than who you are?
Are your parents controlling, acting like a victim or martyr?
Do your parent/s make you act different from how you really feel?
Do your family compete with you?
Does your family always have to have things their way?
Note: All of these questions relate to dissociational traits. The more questions you checked, the more likely your parents has traits and this has caused some difficulty for you as a growing child and adult.
End The Legacy of Dissociational Disorder!
Join our groundbreaking workshops designed to understand the effects of dissociational parenting.
Sunday, 26 March 2017
Hidden Agenda Workshops: You have big dreams. You feel that you have a big purpose.
CHILD WITHINS: Hidden Agenda Workshops: You have big dreams. You feel that you have a big purpose. You know that you can make a massive difference in this world.
There’s just one problem – you don’t have permission to do it.
Yup, that’s right. Permission.
We’ve met many who thought that they needed permission from someone else to live their dreams. It’s like they’ve been waiting around for some board of approvals to say:
GO FOR IT – IT’S OKAY FOR YOU TO SHINE!
The thing is, the world will very rarely give you permission to do anything other than just fit in. Your family may want you to stay the same, to not rock the boat.
You don’t want to be judged or selfish. So you just go along with it.
But, the problem is, each day there is a little voice that whispers to you that there’s something more. But, you don’t have permission from the tribe or the family, so you stay small unrecognised.
That is, until one day, there’s so much pain that you are forced to wake up. It’s like life is saying, “Grow or die.”
And so, timidly you choose to grow, but not too much or too fast – you don’t want to rock the boat.
Here’s the thing – screw the boat.
You have a gift to give to the world. You have a unique voice and talents that can not only improve your life, but the lives of others, too. And playing small doesn’t serve any of us.
You playing small doesn’t serve you. You are meant for more than that.
Playing small doesn’t serve me or anyone else you could help – because we need you to play a bigger game. That’s how you change.
Instead of not rocking the boat, decide to make waves.
So, here’s the good news, and I’m going to say it in CAPS because it’s REALLY GOOD NEWS:
THE ONLY PERSON’S PERMISSION YOU NEED TO SHINE, IS YOUR OWN CHILD WITHIN.
Dissociation Identity Disorder studies the parental roots of dissociation.
Dissociation Identity Disorder studies the parental roots of dissociation.We really need a child within us who loves us fully. We need a child within who understand us fully. We need a child within who can adequately translate the needs behind our cries…and our coughs…and our silences. We need our child within who is now open to learn all they can learn from us, and we need to learn all this from our relationship with our re-birthed child within
We needed parents who recognise that once they've brought us into the world they must devote their lives to body, soul and us. We needed parents who realise that all their purposes in existing must be performed in light of how it can help us grow, help us mature, and help us thrive.
We needed parents who have spent years in preparation for our creation – years before the sperm and the egg that created me ever met. We needed parents who devoted their lives to the betterment of themselves in mind, body, and spirit. We needed parents who entered the deepest and darkest depths of themselves and resolved the most painful traumas of their own past. We needed parents who no longer live awash in the wounds foisted on them by their own parents. We need parents who have become fully enlightened and no longer store hidden parts of their ravaged selves in their unconscious.
We needed parents who no longer wish for their own parents to rescue them, and secretly expect me, their future offspring, to pick up the torch where their own parents left off. We needed parents who can instead devote the whole summation of their beings toward the betterment of us.
We needed parents who have had me so that they can give, and not take, from me. We need parents who had children out of no other motive than their desire to give back to the earth. We needed the kind of parents who realise fully just how inherently selfish having children is. We needed the kind of parents who would normally never have children…
We needed parents who don’t lie to us – or to them. We needed parents who can be straight with us. We needed parents who can be straight with each other, and have no hidden agendas for us. We need parents who don’t use us as a pawn in their relationship games with others, and most especially each other.
We needed parents who can let us be who We are – and not brag about me. We needed parents who do not see me as an extension of them, and thus do not say “thank you” when someone compliments our beauty. We needed parents who instead say, “yes, you’re right,” and don’t secretly feel self-gratified by my wondrous self.
We needed parents who do not live in fear of their own deaths. We needed parents who live in the moment, because they have integrated the truths of their past.
We needed parents who are youthful in spirit and healthy in body, and who will not abandon us to death before we are ready to stand on our own as an autonomous adult.
We needed parents who raise us in a safe and co
mfortable and enriching environment – not in the midst of a civil war or a starvation-torn land or a silent room with a television.
We needed parents who, if we are a boy or a girl, wouldn’t dare circumcise our genital organs. We need parents who devote themselves to our health. We needed parents who don’t drink alcohol or take drugs or take unnecessary medications. We needed parents who are sober at all levels of their being. We need parents who would never physically hurt us, for any reason.
We needed parents who love children, and can easily relate to them – and don’t instead force us to relate to them. We needed parents who let us grow at our own pace, and let us be a kid when We need to be a kid. We needed parents who don’t expect adult responsibility of us before we become an adult.
We needed parents who marvel at the preciousness of our existence and realise that we are the epitome of our unbounded spirit. We needed parents who laugh because they feel the joy in our life. We needed parents who know how to have honest fun, and want to include us in it.
We needed parents who have resolved their addictions. We needed parents who are not avoiding the true light of day by being addicted to me. We needed parents who do not project their blocked past onto us, but instead see me for exactly for who We are. We needed parents who do not expect me to love them. We needed parents who know the difference between love and need. We needed parents who are experts on self-nurturance, and by extension know how to nurture us.
We needed parents who are emotional adults through and through – and we need two of these parents. And we need these two parents to also love each other. We needed these two parents to be fully in accord with their holy role as the warden of our growth. We needed two parents who are both willing to go to all lengths to give their best for us. We needed two parents who are both willing to die for us.
We needed parents who can progressively let us go as we progressively mature. We needed parents who can follow our lead and listen to our revisions of the plan. We needed parents who do not go into withdrawal when we don’t love them.
We needed parents who let me get angry when they make errors or do inappropriate things with us – and We needed parents who change their behaviour so they stop making these errors. We needed parents who do not punish us for our honest and healthy reactions, and love us anyway.
We needed parents who understand the meaning of healthy human sexuality. We needed parents who will in no way use us to meet their own unresolved sexual or love needs. We needed parents who will shield us from as much of the hellish impurity of the world as they are humanly able to do. We needed parents who are willing to sacrifice all their own personal comforts to create a nourishing environment for us.
We needed parents who take no credit when the work is done.
We needed parents who would have been our role models.
We need to communicate these facts to our child within as we work the Ten Stages.
Monday, 6 February 2017
Having a Lightbulb Moment
Having a Lightbulb Moment is the description many non-dissociated individuals use when they first discover the existence of Dissociation. For the first time, they have discovered a plausible explanation for the strange and frightening behaviours of a loved-one or family member who suffers from an addiction and learn that their situation is not uncommon. It is as if a light were just turned on.
Feeling Trapped by an-others dissociation
Feeling Trapped by an-others dissociation - Most people who have a relationship with someone who suffers from dissociation would like to bring an end to the relationship but are unable to or afraid to end it because they feel trapped in some way.
Feeling Isolated with a dissociated person
Are you being Gaslighted?
Are you being Gaslighted - The practice of brainwashing or convincing a mentally healthy individual that they are going insane or that their understanding of reality is mistaken or false. The term “Gaslighting” is based on the 1944 MGM movie “Gaslight”.
Casting You as the Crazy One
In the classic suspense thriller, Gaslight, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) marries the villainous Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), not realizing that he is the one who murdered her aunt and is now searching for her missing jewels.
To cover up his treachery, he tries to persuade Paula that she is going mad, so he can search the attic for the jewels without her interference. He plants missing objects on her person in order to make her believe that she has no recollection of reality. He tries to isolate her, not allowing her to have visitors or to leave the house.
If this sounds somehow familiar, you have probably encountered the form of psychological abuse we call Gaslighting. Essentially, it describes forms of manipulation which are designed to make the victim lose their grip on the truth or doubt their perception of reality.
What it Looks Like
A family member who steals something from you tries to convince you that it belongs to them.
A person acts threateningly and then accuses you of abuse when you react in self-defense.
A spouse tries to persuade you that you said or did something that you know is inaccurate.
How it Feels
Gaslighting can be a terrifying experience. It can quickly put you on the defensive - trying to justify your own actions or behaviors - when you started out by challenging someone else’s questionable behavior.
A gaslighting perpetrator's fabrications may be presented so convincingly and with such conviction you begin to question yourself and your own memories and judgment. You may begin to fear that other people - who don’t know the truth - might be persuaded believe some of the distortions.
What NOT to do:
Don’t equate intelligence with character - just because someone can run rings around you in an argument doesn’t mean they are right.
Don’t waste your time trying to convince someone who has already made up their mind about you that they should reconsider.
Don’t argue with a person who is fabricating the facts. Wait for them to return to reality before engaging them in a discussion and do it on YOUR terms - not theirs.
Don’t allow yourself to be isolated from others against our own better judgment. Insist on your right to have your own friends and family.
Don’t blame yourself for what the other person is feeling or how they are behaving. Don’t look for ways to change yourself to try to fix another person. As the OOTF 3 C's mantra says: “You didn’t cause it, you can’t cure it and you can’t control it.” You are only responsible for your own words and actions.
Don’t stay in the room if the situation becomes physically, verbally or emotionally unhealthy or unsafe.
Don’t go it alone or keep what you are experiencing a secret.
What TO do:
Remind yourself that you are not to blame for the other person’s behavior.
Detach yourself from feeling responsible for how another person is feeling, behaving or thinking.
Turn your attention on your own behavior and your own thought patterns. Discard the unhealthy and learn what is healthy for yourself and pursue it - regardless of what reaction you get from the person with the Personality Disorder.
Talk about it! Talk to trusted friends and family about what you are dealing with.
If you are ever confronted with violence or abuse, get yourself and any children immediately out of the room and call for help. Report all acts of violence, threats of violence or self-harm to the police immediately every time.
Maintain your healthy lifestyle and thought life. You will need them. If necessary, explain to your loved-one gently, but firmly that you are doing what you need to do for yourself and then close the conversation.
Saturday, 4 February 2017
The Secret of The Ten Stages
A woman who had been suffering from internal bleeding for several years was miraculously healed after she touched the prophet.
As explained in the Gospel of Mark:
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about the prophet, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
At once the prophet realised that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' "
But the prophet kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
- Mark 5:25-34, NIV translation.
Open your eyes. Like shooting stars miracles begin to happen years before you notice them. Everything you need & are meant to become is already within you.Wake up our Child Within.
While the prophet was walking to Jairus' house, a woman suffering from internal bleeding touched the prophet and was healed (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48). Before the prophet arrived at Jairus' house, Jairus was told that his daughter was already dead. The prophet went to his home and brought his daughter back to life.
As described in the Gospel of Luke:
Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at the prophets' feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.
As the prophet was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.
. .While the prophet was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. "Your daughter is dead," he said. "Don't bother the teacher anymore."
Hearing this, the prophet said to Jairus, "Don't be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed."
When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child's father and mother. Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. "Stop wailing," the prophet said. "She is not dead but asleep."
They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But he took her by the hand and said, "My child, get up!" Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then the prophet told them to give her something to eat. Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.
- Luke 8:41-42, 49-56, NIV translation.
Thursday, 2 February 2017
We recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the child within only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves
We recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the child within only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves as a revelatory experience of that numinous presence whence all things came into being. Indeed, the universe is the primary reality. We become awakened by our participation in this more sublime dimension of the world about us.
Monday, 30 November 2015
Most of us are conditioned out of our creativity early when we were taught that if we could not make "good art"
Most of us are conditioned out of our creativity early when we were taught that if we could not make "good art" as children we should not bother at all. creativity overrides the conformity of what we were taught:
The creative process involves intuition, mystery, delving into the unknown, messing around with ideas, shapes, and colours; being willing to play and experiment. And part of the process is to allow feelings to be expressed through all media: the written word, speech, colour, line, form, drama, music. Through this whole process, we find our individuality, self-esteem, and ability to act consciously.
The creative process involves intuition, mystery, delving into the unknown, messing around with ideas, shapes, and colours; being willing to play and experiment. And part of the process is to allow feelings to be expressed through all media: the written word, speech, colour, line, form, drama, music. Through this whole process, we find our individuality, self-esteem, and ability to act consciously.
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Until we become aware of it, our "normal" is usually similar to the emotional climate that we grew up in.
ART REHAB: Our emotional set-point is the habitual background feeling that we carry all through our lives, often without really recognising that it is there. We all have varying degrees of happiness and self-love that is our "normal." Until we become aware of it, our "normal" is usually similar to the emotional climate that we grew up in.
Take five minutes to close our eyes and go within. Our "normal" is often a hum of anxiety that covers up a predominant feelings of fear, anger, or sadness. Feel into the emotional state that is our unquestioned "normal." What is the ever-present emotional hum that runs under our days?
What colours and images would represent our "normal"? We find ourself colouring in many bright colours around a partial head. Our imagination is rich, but our "normal" emotional set-point was a general feeling of being withdrawn from a full engagement with our life. We fear being fully honest and expressive. Thats why we colour with full bright crayons.
Take five minutes to close our eyes and go within. Our "normal" is often a hum of anxiety that covers up a predominant feelings of fear, anger, or sadness. Feel into the emotional state that is our unquestioned "normal." What is the ever-present emotional hum that runs under our days?
What colours and images would represent our "normal"? We find ourself colouring in many bright colours around a partial head. Our imagination is rich, but our "normal" emotional set-point was a general feeling of being withdrawn from a full engagement with our life. We fear being fully honest and expressive. Thats why we colour with full bright crayons.
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We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions.
At the stages we need to acknowledge that for us it has become common to try to force ourselves to feel and act more mature than we actually are.
At the Stages we acknowledge that to be present also means to ground ourself and not dissociate
For victims of trauma, experts say, dissociation is often lifesaving.
Especially at first as we engage with The Stages, we become more aware of our rampant thoughts and violent emotional swings.
Wake up our Child Within.
ART REHAB: Open your eyes. Like shooting stars miracles begin to happen years before you notice them. Everything you need & are meant to become is already within you.Wake up our Child Within.
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