Sometime Emotions Need Balance!

Some of the scientific evidence points to how resilience only comes into operation when certain events take place. Some people according to this theory have extra stuff that lets them come back from terrible events. But there are a range of events just short that need us to behave with balance.

Developing the skills of emotional literacy in which we bring our emotions into balance through a simple but challenging process of feeling them and translating them into words so that they can be reflected upon inwardly and outwardly, is what allows us to become emotionally balanced and sober people. People who are able to use their emotions consciously to fuel passion, communication and understanding.

Here is a short video clip on attaining Emotional Sobriety:

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Unfinished

There are lots of ways to see resilience - some times it only comes to the surface in situation of terrible outcomes - Black People are, if nothing else - Resilience.

Resilience - Poetry and A New Language Game

Why resilience? I define myself using a term established by Richard Rorty - “liberal ironist -the name for the “sort of person who faces up to the contingency of his own most central beliefs and desires –someone sufficiently historicist and nominalist to have abandoned the idea those central beliefs and desires refer back to something beyond the reach of time.

So my anthem is resilience - the sustaining of life’s daring. From this date forward I will be contributing more and more material along this theme. If you find any material that you think should be included, send it to oldude59@happinessaddiction.info

clipped from www.blockislandtimes.com Poetry project begins with inquiry into resilience and the human spirit “There is a small world of people interested in human rights and writing,” says Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina. Wentworth and three other poets from that small world, Carolyn Forche, Taha Muhammed Ali, and Peter Cole, will be here, in our island world, this weekend at the first session of the 2008 Block Island Poetry Workshop, “Poetry, Resilience, and the Human Spirit.” “They are looking for a way to process their emotions. They are afraid, confused and angry,” Wentworth said. “When people get that sick they have little control. They’re told what to do. “ “It was a great way to process the information,” she explained. “There is a redemptive quality in creating a poem about these things.” This weekend, Wentworth and Forche will team up to do a workshop together. “We’ll teach reading between the lines. We’ll write poems from newspaper clippings.”

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