Comments for Redefining Beauty http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com defining beauty from the inside out Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:59:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://inthekoots.com/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Attitude Adjustment by Diana van Eyk http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2012/01/27/attitude-adjustment/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Diana van Eyk Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:59:42 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1400#comment-357 Hi, Mark. Ya, meditation sure helps through these late winter days - interesting that it works well for PTSD, although that makes a lot of sense. Also interesting that you're an atheist. I was too until my early 20s, when I became an agnostic which I am to this day. I believe there's a spiritual realm, but have no idea what it is and am unwilling to waste time trying to figure it out or argue about it. But I tune into it in my own way, and respect what anyone else does as long as they don't try to convince me of their rightness. That post was from such an inner place, I was a little surprised to have gotten a comment. Thanks. Daily meditation is the goal - just have to build it into my routine. Hi, Mark.
Ya, meditation sure helps through these late winter days – interesting that it works well for PTSD, although that makes a lot of sense.
Also interesting that you’re an atheist. I was too until my early 20s, when I became an agnostic which I am to this day. I believe there’s a spiritual realm, but have no idea what it is and am unwilling to waste time trying to figure it out or argue about it. But I tune into it in my own way, and respect what anyone else does as long as they don’t try to convince me of their rightness.
That post was from such an inner place, I was a little surprised to have gotten a comment. Thanks. Daily meditation is the goal – just have to build it into my routine.

]]> Comment on Attitude Adjustment by Mark Nykanen http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2012/01/27/attitude-adjustment/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Mark Nykanen Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:46:52 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1400#comment-356 I don't consider myself a spiritual person -- let me cut to the chase: I'm an atheist and think the world would be a much healthier place if people just gave up the ghost, so to speak, on the putative "higher power" -- but I find daily meditation necessary for smoothing off the unnecessary and unhelpful extremes of emotion. I think clarity comes with that, as you suggest. Years ago I was talking to a physician friend who said that the only approach that she had found to effectively treat PTSD was cardio and meditation. That was precisely the conclusion I had reached in my own rambling, often stumbling way. Thanks for the post, Diana! I don’t consider myself a spiritual person — let me cut to the chase: I’m an atheist and think the world would be a much healthier place if people just gave up the ghost, so to speak, on the putative “higher power” — but I find daily meditation necessary for smoothing off the unnecessary and unhelpful extremes of emotion. I think clarity comes with that, as you suggest. Years ago I was talking to a physician friend who said that the only approach that she had found to effectively treat PTSD was cardio and meditation. That was precisely the conclusion I had reached in my own rambling, often stumbling way.
Thanks for the post, Diana!

]]> Comment on We? Oui! by Diana van Eyk http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2012/01/24/we-oui/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Diana van Eyk Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:50:11 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1390#comment-355 Hi, Mark. I wrote this post on a whim, so reread it after reading your comment and was surprised to see how prescriptive it was. There's something so sad about people meditating alone and trying to perfect the abundance consciousness, or whatever they call it. Encouraging people to do that seems like a set up for disappointment and self blame - "I must not have believed strongly enough" or something to that effect. Not that attitude isn't important, but so is looking at the economic situation honestly, and seeing ourselves as parts of a whole, or a community. I agree that we all draw our own lines about levels of engagement, but some level seems critical right now. Isolation doesn't help anyone, or our present situation. Hi, Mark.
I wrote this post on a whim, so reread it after reading your comment and was surprised to see how prescriptive it was.
There’s something so sad about people meditating alone and trying to perfect the abundance consciousness, or whatever they call it. Encouraging people to do that seems like a set up for disappointment and self blame – “I must not have believed strongly enough” or something to that effect. Not that attitude isn’t important, but so is looking at the economic situation honestly, and seeing ourselves as parts of a whole, or a community.
I agree that we all draw our own lines about levels of engagement, but some level seems critical right now. Isolation doesn’t help anyone, or our present situation.

]]> Comment on We? Oui! by Mark Nykanen http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2012/01/24/we-oui/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Mark Nykanen Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:24:43 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1390#comment-354 I'm with you. Yes, positive attitude. But wishing and hoping won't cut it. We need to be engaged, including resistance, at whatever levels we find acceptable and conscionable. Thanks for the post. I’m with you. Yes, positive attitude. But wishing and hoping won’t cut it. We need to be engaged, including resistance, at whatever levels we find acceptable and conscionable. Thanks for the post.

]]> Comment on Right Relationship by What can one person do? | Occupy ToolKit http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/03/23/right-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-353 What can one person do? | Occupy ToolKit Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:50:44 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=653#comment-353 [...] in right relationship with everyone in your life. Trusting, respectful relationships create the emotional safety needed [...] [...] in right relationship with everyone in your life. Trusting, respectful relationships create the emotional safety needed [...]

]]> Comment on Appeasing our Inner Bureaucrat by Diana van Eyk http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/12/29/appeasing-our-inner-bureaucrat/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Diana van Eyk Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:07:06 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1310#comment-352 I totally enjoyed that film too, Joel. Reynolds really is a hero. I wish our bureaucrats - inside and out - would enable these heroes more. How many inspired ideas are quashed by the rule makers, I wonder... I totally enjoyed that film too, Joel. Reynolds really is a hero. I wish our bureaucrats – inside and out – would enable these heroes more. How many inspired ideas are quashed by the rule makers, I wonder…

]]> Comment on Appeasing our Inner Bureaucrat by Diana van Eyk http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/12/29/appeasing-our-inner-bureaucrat/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Diana van Eyk Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:05:23 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1310#comment-351 I'm glad you found this post thought provoking, Mark. I thought it might be a little too 'on the edge of out there' as someone once described my posts. But seeing how caught up those bureaucrats were in following the rules was terrifying, yet compelling: how often do we focus on the rules at the expense of the greater good? Alas, my inner bureaucrat is alive and well too. I’m glad you found this post thought provoking, Mark. I thought it might be a little too ‘on the edge of out there’ as someone once described my posts. But seeing how caught up those bureaucrats were in following the rules was terrifying, yet compelling: how often do we focus on the rules at the expense of the greater good? Alas, my inner bureaucrat is alive and well too.

]]> Comment on Appeasing our Inner Bureaucrat by Joel Russ http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/12/29/appeasing-our-inner-bureaucrat/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Joel Russ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:32:37 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1310#comment-350 I know you're making a larger point, Diana. But I'm immediately moved to say how much I've enjoyed that film, Garbage Warrior. Reynolds is a real hero for our times. People need room to experiment. I first saw the film about four years ago, then watched it again within the last year. Yahooo!! I know you’re making a larger point, Diana. But I’m immediately moved to say how much I’ve enjoyed that film, Garbage Warrior. Reynolds is a real hero for our times. People need room to experiment.

I first saw the film about four years ago, then watched it again within the last year. Yahooo!!

]]> Comment on Appeasing our Inner Bureaucrat by Mark Nykanen http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/12/29/appeasing-our-inner-bureaucrat/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Mark Nykanen Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:55:16 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1310#comment-349 This is a truly thought-provoking piece, Diana. My inner bureaucrat is, alas, all-too-alive and well. But you've refocussed my attention on his his tyranny by conceptualizing him so well. Thanks! This is a truly thought-provoking piece, Diana. My inner bureaucrat is, alas, all-too-alive and well. But you’ve refocussed my attention on his his tyranny by conceptualizing him so well. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Winter Solstice 2011 by Diana van Eyk http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/2011/12/20/winter-solstice-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Diana van Eyk Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:13:54 +0000 http://redefiningbeauty.inthekoots.com/?p=1302#comment-348 Hi, Paul. Thanks! Speaking of grounding, I just went to a Solstice gathering at the Seed with Michael O'Connor and found that really grounding too. Wish you could have been there. Anyways, hope you enjoyed Winter Solstice. Take care. Diana Hi, Paul.
Thanks! Speaking of grounding, I just went to a Solstice gathering at the Seed with Michael O’Connor and found that really grounding too. Wish you could have been there. Anyways, hope you enjoyed Winter Solstice.
Take care.
Diana

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