http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ariel_garten_know_thyself_with_a_brain_scanner.html


Ariel does something I admire and something close to what I am engaged with.
She works with brainwaves, measures them, gets to move things with them, to light up lights with them.
Brainwaves are tangible, they can be made visible to individuals and they can be related to different mental state.
That moment of awareness, when someone sees his/her brainwaves on the screen, and relates them to: joy, peace, thinking, distraction, rumination, s rather revolutionary.
It is the experience of the I.
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The drawing mind relies on the idea that the brain (yes, we have heard that) is plastic and can transform itself.
I imagine that for those that would struggle to sit on a hard cushion, crosslegged, trying to silence the brain or for those that would scorn the experience of "savouring the raising", this is a good alternative.
Apparently the author hints the reader, the creative reader, without giving too many indications though, to "draw with your smell", "draw with your feet". This would take to the experience of distracting the criticizing mind, and to start experimenting new alternative ways of observing reality, of drawing and ultimately of thinking.

I have ordered the book, I liked the cover too (what counts if not the cover)

In ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy) giving up the need or strive to control emotions is a main point.
That is not the goal anymore.
It is a sense of “effortless effort”, of floating in the quicksand, of swimming in the quicksand, of being bigger than quicksand, of enjoying the feeling that quicksand is not the point that eases pain of anxiety away.
This is just my personal experience with anxiety. As long as I kept on fighting it, trying to control, it would attack me back. When I gave up the idea of control it, expanding my ability to accept it, it is not so much of a problem anymore.

ACt- acceptance and commitment therapy- Russ Harris

http://www.thehappinesstrap.com/

HappinessKit travels to Brazil again: 30th of May-Rio de Janeiro- charity "aperitivo" night

the NGO "il sorriso dei miei bimbi" and the "centro social de educacao e cultura da rocinha" are throwing a charity "aperitivo" night in Rio on May, the 30th and the Happiness kit will be will be there once again, to drink, dance and sustain!

www.ilsorrisodeimieibimbi.org

www.csecr.org.br

a little contribution to sustained Happiness

for a charity purpose!

XXX Hiro

José's contribution to the Happiness Kit:

Every child needs nice clothing, every tree needs leaves,

and there you go: Thanks José for sending me from Barcelona

your creative contribution for the Kit.

I love you amiguito, and I love your creativity!

Hiro