[racecar]

MJA,
I'll have to check that one out. I am tired of doing and failing. I'm tired of being and not being enough.

[Mikal]

Hi Val...although I have done some study into serotonin I don't pay it much heed. I allow myself bad days if they come my way and I allow myself to feel sad if thats what I feel. Life is pretty precarious in nature so I believe its downright foolishness to think that we must always be happy and joyful. To me that is not even realistic. Plus I have watched alot of people put on antidepressants and although they even out I don't see where they are happy and most studies show that the drugs just mask the mood and do nothing for the problems that people are not dealing with.
Eating is another thing I do not worry about...if I am hungry I eat and if I am not I don't. I mean how simple could it be than to just listen to our body talking to us.

You speak of being tired of failing and tired of not being enough. If I fail at something I look upon it as one of my weak areas so of course an area I need to put more effort and patience into. I never worry about not being enough, I am comfortable with myself and just don't put myself on a measuring scale. Today I might be strong and tomorrow weak and that could just be a passing thing so like a surfer I just ride the wave until it subsides...who says we have to be up to any certain measure anyway????



Mikal

[racecar]

I understand measuring... having measured and been measured. Some moments lately have been low and some have been high. I get it. I appologize for my lack of concentration or my jumpy thought pattern.

In observation of how my particular body feels when I eat 'better', by being mindful, I notice a distinct difference in how I feel physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Food being more natural than a pill... I think It's a valuable offering worthy of investigation against the magic pill mentallity.

I'm not saying I eat only raw and I never eat processed junk. Sometimes I even eat for comfort, not only when I'm physically hungry.

MJA, I watched across the universe and cried a lot. In the context of 'do, do, do, do, do'...not what I meant.

Thanks

[Mikal]

Hi Val....no apology necessary, we all find our way someway.

When it comes to food I am following the stories about what might, is and could happen to our food supply...like genetcally modified foods and meats...don't like the sounds of that. I am also following the little war between doctors against drugs and doctors for drugs...also small war between chemically made drugs and natural drugs....lots of little wars raging that I am following.....


Mikal

[racecar]

~We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us~ Marcel Proust



http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu...elybrown4.html

an interesting read (maybe) and similar to what Graham spoke of earlier


thanks

[Mikal]

Thanks for the link Val...yours are always good!!!!

I already took my journey....it is long behind me now...


Smiles Mikal

[G_burnett]

Originally Posted by racecar

~We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us~ Marcel Proust



http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu...elybrown4.html

an interesting read (maybe) and similar to what Graham spoke of earlier


thanks

Very interesting link Val TY, (I love the penguin kid lol) we have the same on TOE Q here lol G

[Mikal]

Originally Posted by racecar

~We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us~ Marcel Proust



http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu...elybrown4.html

an interesting read (maybe) and similar to what Graham spoke of earlier


thanks

Hi Val...I searched out your link and like very much the expression that individually we have an "ideal way of learning" particular to each person which is why traditional school, education and learning does not really work. I liked the phrase, "how we think" which is true to more or less the fact that in using our mind we have a designed comfort zone again particular to each individual. I also like the reference to "learning referred to as a journey" which of course is endless throughout the whole of our lives.

I liked the "Pueblo Project" which links senior citizens to children in a learning experience. I have great empathy for the lack of respect for the senior who in old times were the wise ones in life and who in our society are shoved away as useless and not important to us. Of course with that attitude in society the senior suffers from lack of purpose in their lives and end up drugged within institutional homes which is truly sad....


Thanks for link....



Mikal

[AntonioLao]

Cultural complexities cause information overload, especially to a developing mind of a child. If there is only a single culture then it is sufficient to learn just one language. It is common now for young people to learn not just one language but also many different fields of studies and they are getting more and more complex. Once the neurons in the brain are connected during memory encoding, it is useless to use drug to decode them, short of damaging parts of the brain.

[Mikal]

Large study into Ritilen Use In Young Children....

The interplay of neurotransmitters, receptors, ionic channels, signal pathways, openings of cell energy and biosynthesis of neurons and cell partners in the environment of the brain is immensely complex. The complexity of this interchange in this system brings the realization of risk when foreign substances are introduced into the brain environment.


As you say Antonio..."damaging parts of the brain..."


Mikal