Yes emotional and intellectual discipline internally. Thank you. How do you get back to that place if you feel disillusioned- which you must do at times? I think it’s practice and prayer? Anything else you particularly find helpful?
You learn to navigate these things. I think meditation is the best equalizer. It's also understandable in the middle of all this to feel a genuine grief about wht's going on. I find that if I let myself have the grief, I can feel it inside myself when it's gone beyond honoring my feeling into indulging them. That's when I know it's time to get up, snap out of it, and do something to try to help.
Yes. And it is about snapping out of the bad habits we’ve created. Speaking personally. Thank you 🙏 Meditation and thank you for your book Illuminata. It helps me daily even the days I’m struggling I know to open it and become a clearer version of myself.
The guns need to be turned into gardening tools, the ‘demonizing’ into creative visualizations we are becoming angels and friends to all life. The way things are going, it may be time to consider future lives…
Till then, may we awaken to each other’s genius for co-creative peace. Intellect alone don’t work no more, heart now needs to speak; needs to speak from one and all. Stop all wars, love one another, maybe have 3 presidents at once, not one. Love the earth, stop selling kids guns and internet games of war. Wage Peace! Your Department of Peace is needed now!
You wrote/said it sooooooo right-on perfect ❤️❤️❤️ !
I've never been in a situation I couldn't talk through or walk away from ... except when I was pre-talking age and I bit a hairy angry leg.
Later my aunt said she thought I slowed the offender down a bit.
But after that time, I've always been somehow able to talk thru situations and walk on.
Maybe sometime in the future I might have to be physically violent or yell but not yet so far since that hairy calf (leg below knee).
I'm 65 years old and maybe I'm lucky so far.
The 1960's were a Huge influence, too -- passive sit-ins to not go to war, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem feminism, a few weekend commune visits w/ natural herb gardens and clay pots handmade from riverbank clay.
These all influenced and stuck with me and all of that is always the way for me to go.
It works.
Anyway I don't know how you put the words together so well
As you would know, Marianne, the foundations of war and violence lie in child abuse.
Robin Grille’s magisterial Parenting for a Peaceful World spells out how unresolved trauma plays out on the world stage. He draws on the work on psychohistorian Lloyd deMause.
The most immediate implication is that municipalities and health services would do well to invest in supporting young parents in learning how to bring out more of their nurturing side than their punitive side.
Of course, many if not most adults have unresolved trauma. Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score describes highly effective experiential healing techniques for resolving trauma. We’ve gone way past Freud.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not invent these techniques. I selected them first, because people can get great results using them for themselves, and, secondly, because they can be easily introduced to people we know when appropriate.
In doing so, we are not acting as a professional therapist, but as trainers.
I am project lead for Stable Planet Alliance’s League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Our vision is that regular people, such as those who comment on this thread, step up to a new level of leadership and responsibility and introduce such techniques to people they know. They actually contribute to fostering the cultural evolution necessary to evolve a peaceful society.
Importantly, Evolutionary Catalysts, also talk about catastrophic ecological trends – a hothouse earth, for example, will be unbearably horrible – with a view to transforming the system that drives our destruction. It takes thinking.
Even though I may have winced my way through the first few minutes ... I was resolute about finishing a frivolous moment in Diablo IV *before* I watched. How rude, otherwise! But yes, the video games (factor in, even if they may have a potentially therapeutic use for re-sensitizing veterans, theoretically -- and are certainly exploited more, by our own military, for the opposite purposes & with children in the crosshairs from the earliest of ages) ...
On the subject of the glorification of guns & violence, my own circumstances are quite fortunate, compared to many. Yet I have plenty of tales, struggle & as a result, developed awareness. And I'm very much on board with all that is said here. Yet I can't help thinking fondly of my own uncles, and an account of plinking away at rats trying to get into the corn crib, when they were quite young. There were generations of course, closer to the WWII era, as they hail from, that were taught gun safety & responsible gun ownership. And *these* are the people who the youth of today, and especially some of the militant types, need to hear from. The stories both inspire, and at times, curdle one's blood. Not everyone has a family member who has carried a tactical nuke, knowing full well what happens if those with the detonator decide it's time to use it. Maybe that explains why this relative of mine is "closer to Jesus" than I may ever be. Ordained, too, as I recall ... though this may be after his father, before him.
Few today may know that there was a U.S. Dept of War until Sept 18, 1947 ... so it doesn't surprise me that this didn't much perturb you, the rebranding. It's the fact that we don't have the Department of Peace to counter & balance this, which is so distressing. If all the brass at the Pentagon realized your Insight(s), and properly understood your stance, only the true Dr. Strangeloves would remain infleXible. Who knows -- such miracles may yet manifest. I certainly hope so!!
Anyway, every word you said about social media (as this video began) ties this together and continues to resound. I choose to avoid the echo chambers, while ax-grinding and the spouting of empty rhetoric continues. But I do know that with some of that, comes catharsis, and this is far more greatly needed, both in the U.S. & abroad, than many might realize or want to admit. For whatever reason, I picked this evening to start the movie, `The Negotiator' (with Samuel L. Jackson), which has been on my mind for some time. The opening scene is all I was really needing to see again, although the entire movie has relevance, and is even poignant for the times. Veterans, trauma, and de-escalation are the themes and takeaway here. Plus catharsis.
¨American households have their television sets turned on an average of 7 hours perday. As a result, children are watching from of 3 to 5 hours of television each day. By the time they turn age 13, they've witnessed 100,000 acts of televised violence, including 8,000 depictions of murder...¨
¨American children spend an average of seven to eight hours per day viewing screen entertainment. Videos and programs can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of contemporary television programming features violence. Hundreds of studies of the effects of screen violence on children and teenagers have found that children may:
Become "immune" or numb to the horror of violence
Begin to accept violence as a way to solve problems
Imitate the violence they observe on screens; and
Identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers...¨
As a child, I grew up with loaded guns stored in both homes I lived in. My parents taught me gun safety at a young age, as well as how to shoot them and when/why. My dad was the mayor of our small town and my step dad was a minister. All four of my parents instilled empathy for people, places, things, and to put others first, always leading with compassion amd neutrality first.
At age 48, I learned how to shoot an AR15 when I was in Missouri visiting my family. My step dad taught my Dutch husband how to shoot, apply safety, and clean a rifle over a decade ago. My dual national children have been introduced and normalised to guns, though have not operated one. I left 🇺🇸 post 9/11 as I realized the American Dream was a false reality, and no longer felt safe in our country. American legislatiors on both sides have instilled toxic values that breed violence and mental illness. The two party system failed a democracy decades back and profit is placed before people and policy in the name of war mongering capitalism.
Now, in The Netherlands, with the threat of WW3 surrounding the planet, I feel the only solution is to demand love over hate. Beg for compassion where apathy and ego have taken over. Defy the general theme of violence and change communities, starting within families. As a yoga and meditation teacher, I advocate for peaceful revolutions, practicing rest, stillness and pragmatic solutions ahead of anger and reactivity. Solutions are found in denouncement and saying no to what has become the norm. Creating the change we want to see starts within. We can do this collectively where leaders have failed to do within their actions.
It is a shame Marianne to see you speak here instead of behind the White House podium. Further proof our military industrial complex has prevailed.
I love it when you sound divinely angry. May human beings hear your message!
God bless you Marianne for your good work and message.
I grew up with guns but always used them respectfully. And I have supported peace all my life.
But then again I had good parents growing up.
Important to hear.
Yes emotional and intellectual discipline internally. Thank you. How do you get back to that place if you feel disillusioned- which you must do at times? I think it’s practice and prayer? Anything else you particularly find helpful?
You learn to navigate these things. I think meditation is the best equalizer. It's also understandable in the middle of all this to feel a genuine grief about wht's going on. I find that if I let myself have the grief, I can feel it inside myself when it's gone beyond honoring my feeling into indulging them. That's when I know it's time to get up, snap out of it, and do something to try to help.
Yes. And it is about snapping out of the bad habits we’ve created. Speaking personally. Thank you 🙏 Meditation and thank you for your book Illuminata. It helps me daily even the days I’m struggling I know to open it and become a clearer version of myself.
Marianne-May your voice for the cultivation of peace resonate throughout the world.
The guns need to be turned into gardening tools, the ‘demonizing’ into creative visualizations we are becoming angels and friends to all life. The way things are going, it may be time to consider future lives…
Till then, may we awaken to each other’s genius for co-creative peace. Intellect alone don’t work no more, heart now needs to speak; needs to speak from one and all. Stop all wars, love one another, maybe have 3 presidents at once, not one. Love the earth, stop selling kids guns and internet games of war. Wage Peace! Your Department of Peace is needed now!
yes yay
I agree 🙂❤️ !
You wrote/said it sooooooo right-on perfect ❤️❤️❤️ !
I've never been in a situation I couldn't talk through or walk away from ... except when I was pre-talking age and I bit a hairy angry leg.
Later my aunt said she thought I slowed the offender down a bit.
But after that time, I've always been somehow able to talk thru situations and walk on.
Maybe sometime in the future I might have to be physically violent or yell but not yet so far since that hairy calf (leg below knee).
I'm 65 years old and maybe I'm lucky so far.
The 1960's were a Huge influence, too -- passive sit-ins to not go to war, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem feminism, a few weekend commune visits w/ natural herb gardens and clay pots handmade from riverbank clay.
These all influenced and stuck with me and all of that is always the way for me to go.
It works.
Anyway I don't know how you put the words together so well
and Yes 🙂❤️ !
As you would know, Marianne, the foundations of war and violence lie in child abuse.
Robin Grille’s magisterial Parenting for a Peaceful World spells out how unresolved trauma plays out on the world stage. He draws on the work on psychohistorian Lloyd deMause.
The most immediate implication is that municipalities and health services would do well to invest in supporting young parents in learning how to bring out more of their nurturing side than their punitive side.
Of course, many if not most adults have unresolved trauma. Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score describes highly effective experiential healing techniques for resolving trauma. We’ve gone way past Freud.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not invent these techniques. I selected them first, because people can get great results using them for themselves, and, secondly, because they can be easily introduced to people we know when appropriate.
In doing so, we are not acting as a professional therapist, but as trainers.
I am project lead for Stable Planet Alliance’s League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Our vision is that regular people, such as those who comment on this thread, step up to a new level of leadership and responsibility and introduce such techniques to people they know. They actually contribute to fostering the cultural evolution necessary to evolve a peaceful society.
Importantly, Evolutionary Catalysts, also talk about catastrophic ecological trends – a hothouse earth, for example, will be unbearably horrible – with a view to transforming the system that drives our destruction. It takes thinking.
As always, I would be happy to talk.
Andrew Gaines FRSA
Andrew.Gaines@evolutionarycatalyst.net
Thank you... 💜🙏💜🙏💜
Even though I may have winced my way through the first few minutes ... I was resolute about finishing a frivolous moment in Diablo IV *before* I watched. How rude, otherwise! But yes, the video games (factor in, even if they may have a potentially therapeutic use for re-sensitizing veterans, theoretically -- and are certainly exploited more, by our own military, for the opposite purposes & with children in the crosshairs from the earliest of ages) ...
On the subject of the glorification of guns & violence, my own circumstances are quite fortunate, compared to many. Yet I have plenty of tales, struggle & as a result, developed awareness. And I'm very much on board with all that is said here. Yet I can't help thinking fondly of my own uncles, and an account of plinking away at rats trying to get into the corn crib, when they were quite young. There were generations of course, closer to the WWII era, as they hail from, that were taught gun safety & responsible gun ownership. And *these* are the people who the youth of today, and especially some of the militant types, need to hear from. The stories both inspire, and at times, curdle one's blood. Not everyone has a family member who has carried a tactical nuke, knowing full well what happens if those with the detonator decide it's time to use it. Maybe that explains why this relative of mine is "closer to Jesus" than I may ever be. Ordained, too, as I recall ... though this may be after his father, before him.
Few today may know that there was a U.S. Dept of War until Sept 18, 1947 ... so it doesn't surprise me that this didn't much perturb you, the rebranding. It's the fact that we don't have the Department of Peace to counter & balance this, which is so distressing. If all the brass at the Pentagon realized your Insight(s), and properly understood your stance, only the true Dr. Strangeloves would remain infleXible. Who knows -- such miracles may yet manifest. I certainly hope so!!
Anyway, every word you said about social media (as this video began) ties this together and continues to resound. I choose to avoid the echo chambers, while ax-grinding and the spouting of empty rhetoric continues. But I do know that with some of that, comes catharsis, and this is far more greatly needed, both in the U.S. & abroad, than many might realize or want to admit. For whatever reason, I picked this evening to start the movie, `The Negotiator' (with Samuel L. Jackson), which has been on my mind for some time. The opening scene is all I was really needing to see again, although the entire movie has relevance, and is even poignant for the times. Veterans, trauma, and de-escalation are the themes and takeaway here. Plus catharsis.
Thank🙏You, Marianne!!🕊
Love You so much❤️ Hugs from Poland.
Love You so much. Huggs from Poland ❤️
Children & Television
¨American households have their television sets turned on an average of 7 hours perday. As a result, children are watching from of 3 to 5 hours of television each day. By the time they turn age 13, they've witnessed 100,000 acts of televised violence, including 8,000 depictions of murder...¨
https://www.weld.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/departments/human-services/documents/b24c7b9a3601bb1dccda.pdf
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Screen Violence and Children
¨American children spend an average of seven to eight hours per day viewing screen entertainment. Videos and programs can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of contemporary television programming features violence. Hundreds of studies of the effects of screen violence on children and teenagers have found that children may:
Become "immune" or numb to the horror of violence
Begin to accept violence as a way to solve problems
Imitate the violence they observe on screens; and
Identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers...¨
https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Screen_Violence_Children-013.aspx
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Watching violence on screens makes children more emotionally distressed
https://theconversation.com/watching-violence-on-screens-makes-children-more-emotionally-distressed-106757
Transcendental Meditation - Unlock inner peace with the TM technique
¨TM practice is easy and effortless. It is practiced for 20 minutes twice a day, sitting comfortably with the eyes closed.¨
https://www.tm.org/
https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
As a child, I grew up with loaded guns stored in both homes I lived in. My parents taught me gun safety at a young age, as well as how to shoot them and when/why. My dad was the mayor of our small town and my step dad was a minister. All four of my parents instilled empathy for people, places, things, and to put others first, always leading with compassion amd neutrality first.
At age 48, I learned how to shoot an AR15 when I was in Missouri visiting my family. My step dad taught my Dutch husband how to shoot, apply safety, and clean a rifle over a decade ago. My dual national children have been introduced and normalised to guns, though have not operated one. I left 🇺🇸 post 9/11 as I realized the American Dream was a false reality, and no longer felt safe in our country. American legislatiors on both sides have instilled toxic values that breed violence and mental illness. The two party system failed a democracy decades back and profit is placed before people and policy in the name of war mongering capitalism.
Now, in The Netherlands, with the threat of WW3 surrounding the planet, I feel the only solution is to demand love over hate. Beg for compassion where apathy and ego have taken over. Defy the general theme of violence and change communities, starting within families. As a yoga and meditation teacher, I advocate for peaceful revolutions, practicing rest, stillness and pragmatic solutions ahead of anger and reactivity. Solutions are found in denouncement and saying no to what has become the norm. Creating the change we want to see starts within. We can do this collectively where leaders have failed to do within their actions.
It is a shame Marianne to see you speak here instead of behind the White House podium. Further proof our military industrial complex has prevailed.
Love over hate.