April 2011
Monthly Archive
Thu 28 Apr 2011
Finally space tourism has opened beyond low-Earth orbit! For only a 9 digit figure one can book a trip to the moon and back. Let’s see… that’s $100,000,000+ I guess I won’t be on that first trip.
Sounds like there is one taker to date and as soon as number 2 signs the contract it will be 3 to 5 years and they’ll get to journey to within 62 miles of the moon and see what only 24 other people have ever seen.
I’ll bet those Apollo astronauts did not have itemized on their annual Benefits Summary page “Value of: ‘All expenses paid round trip to the moon = $100,000,000′ “
Tue 26 Apr 2011
Fear
Fear is a distressing negative emotion induced by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger and flee from it or confront it.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that can often occur without an identifiable triggering stimulus. As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an emotional response to a perceived threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is related to situations perceived as uncontrollable or unavoidable.
An alternative view defines anxiety as “a future-oriented mood state in which one is ready or prepared to attempt to cope with upcoming negative events”, suggesting that it is a distinction between future vs. present dangers which divides anxiety and fear.
That’s a mouthful and does it matter? Thinking of the darkroom in my
April 22, 2011 post…
Funny how the mind can have such control over the body and its physical reaction to the world. We underestimate the power of that computer on our shoulders. It can make or break us. It can fill us with confidence or take us to the depths of despair.
Enough thinking for one day.
Fri 22 Apr 2011
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
Wow! Isn’t there a lot packed into this quote!
Are there any negative thoughts, feelings or actions which are not, at their deepest level, motivated by fear? There can be, I’m sure, but how much of the way I am, the things I do or the things I think are rooted in fear?
Much of my negative behavior is a protection I have learned to put on to shield my soul from the onslaught. Aren’t these fears most often lies. Untruths that our brain believes to be true.
I can heal the fear by exposing it to the Truth. As the fear heals, so too will my negative behaviors fall away. No longer will I be a slave to lies.
The key is to get the the deepest root to heal the source of the wounds. It’s either that or ’round and ’round we go re-entering that darkroom.
Wed 20 Apr 2011
I am not an extemporaneous speaker. My mind is usually muddy with thoughts running from here to there and there to here. To ask me to “wing” it is for me to paint you a white piece of paper.
Why is that?
I don’t know – but that’s the way it is.
Is it a problem. Well, no if I don’t let it feed my insecurities and yes if I need to communicate succinctly and no miss key points.
So what I am to do? Wing it.
This is a big step.
Thu 14 Apr 2011
Today was a first. I felt as if I were in the first steps of huge changes in my life. I’ve been there before – the changes were so difficult that all I could do was struggle through them. Now here I am again. This time with a new and different perspective. I am at the cusp of the next step and it’s a major gradient upwards.
This made me ponder. Can I try to quantify the magnitude of this as compared to previous major steps. I devised a quick system which may or may not hold true in future days. But it goes something like this:
- 0 = event 1 @ x years old
- 1 = event 2 @ x years old
- 4 = event 3 @ x years old
- 14 = event 4 @ x years old
- 34 = event 5 @ x years old
- 36 = event 6 @ x years old
- 39 = event 7 @ x years old
- 59 = event 8 @ x years old
The magnitude of the change is from where I was to where I progressed. For example if event 1 were a baseline. The height of the step from event 1 to event 2 was “1.” However, from event 3 to event 4 was a step 10 times higher.
Now, I am at event 8. I sense this step is as large as from event 4 to event 5. HUGE! Hopefully not as traumatic, but if that’s what growth takes, that’s what growth takes. Since I have only begun the trek from 7 to 8, I am looking up. It could be when I arrive at 8 I may downgrade my assessment. But for now that’s how it feels. I do not know where I am going, but I do know my vantage point will be forever changed.
Tue 5 Apr 2011
C.S. Lewis once wrote:
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Sometimes I think I’m deaf & blind.
