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How to Restore Health and Vitality Anywhere by Understanding the Reach and Variety of Pollutions9/7/2020  Image credit: M. Maggs via Pixabay - Quote via BrainyQuote “Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.” - Robert Baden-Powell I adopted this as a core value when a wee child and never let it go. It had the resonance of Truth.
Years of hands-on research in connectivity in multiple and highly varied environs, taught me that what resonates as True, matters. Yet, I wanted to know why certain values resonate as Truth. The answer is as simple as the value the quote is based on. There was nothing new about what I discovered.  Image credit: Tumisu via Pixabay John Stuart Mill said in 1867, “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
Empathy is the effort put in to create understanding. We all need to be more understanding. Understanding beyond the first benefit of the doubt, though, is foolish and detrimental to society. When we use empathy to excuse uncivil attitudes in our communications, we are enabling incivility. To enable is to encourage the continuation of polluted discourse. Polluted discourse is the equivalent of subtle violence. We must start saying no even to the subtle forms of violence. Assert. Delete. Block. Report. Whatever suits the situation. Be one who helps us all return to helpful civic engagement.
 Image credit: Jean-Pierre Pellissier via Pixabay Naysayers The bane of existence. The mark of a false and obnoxious sense of superiority. The protectors of ignorance and blindness. The creators of emotionally toxic ripples.  Image credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay Believers
The balm of existence. The mark of a true and humble superior. The protectors of curiosity and exploration. The creators of emotionally soothing ripples.  Image credit: DiaoChun via Pixabay This is part two of a two-part series. If you missed part one: What is a relationship? Why does how we relate matter?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a convenient place to start. We can get those needs satisfied, ourselves. At each level, I give examples of ordinary effort that will help make any relationship work. These efforts help create an atmosphere that nourishes good will. There’s nothing complex here. Easy peasy here we come …  Image credit: Gordon Johnson via Pixabay Whenever I speak of relationships, I’m as misunderstood as when I say I’m a massage therapist. Assumptions kick in and there’s no budging. Folks, assumptions are killers of quality of life, mind, and heart - and relationships. Remember when we were once taught that to assume makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me”?
 Image credit: Prettysleepy via Pixabay I used to get sick, often, growing up in my family home. I spent most of my sick days home alone. There were none of the fun shenanigans like in the film, Home Alone! Daytime TV and the couch were it. My options were game shows and soap operas. Except for The Price is Right, I opted for soap operas. I wasn't the typical child any more than I am the typical adult.
I lived my romantic dreams through Luke and Laura - the famous couple from General Hospital. Unlike most soap characters, Luke and Laura were better at the relationship thing. Almost everyone else managed to mess with Luke or Laura. You know how sports fans shout at the TV during competitions? Well, I shouted at the TV during my soaps.  Image Credit: Mabel Amber via Pixabay. Today's thought is lifted from my diary.
Litter pickup was on the menu, again - once I took my recyclables and trash out and saw the ground display. It's always heartbreaking. It’s not just the crack vials and coke and weed bags and blue smoke wrappers. It’s cups and plates and takeout containers. Gloves and masks and food. Used cotton swabs, tampon applicators, screws, nails, and a steering wheel cover. Always a flattened, fat rat or two or three. The more I clean it up, the more they do it. It’s starting to feel like an over the top display of hatred combined with joy of false power. It is a feeling I've felt before, if I didn't know what it was at the time. |
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