Okies in the NFL: Peterson sits fifth on rushing list – Oklahoman.com

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Washington Redskins running back and former Oklahoma star Adrian Peterson had a 32-yard run to set up a second-half field goal and finished with 78 yards to put his total at 14,216 in his 13th season. Peterson is fifth on the career rushing list despite missing playing time over the years due to injuries. The Redskins, who lost 47-16 on Sunday at Dallas, has a 2020 option on the 34-year-old's contract.

How other players with Oklahoma ties fared on the final day of the regular season:

Samaje Perine, RB, Miami (OU): He had five carries for 16 yards in the Dolphins' 27-24 upset of division champion New England.

Justice Hill, RB, Baltimore (OSU): Hill had 10 carries for 39 yards and a touchdown as the Ravens clobbered Pittsburgh 28-10.

Tyreek Hill, WR, Kansas City (OSU): He had four catches for a team-best 61 yards during the Chiefs' win over the Los Angeles Chargers.

Baker Mayfield, QB, Cleveland (OU): Mayfield wrapped up his second year as a pro. He completed 12 of 27 pass attempts for 279 yards and three touchdowns. Mayfield also threw three interceptions in the Browns' stunning loss to the hapless Cincinnati Bengals. Mayfield, who also ran four times for 29 yards, will have a new head coach next season. Team ownership fired coach Freddie Kitchens after one season.

Austin Seibert, K, Cleveland (OU): Seibert had a 42-yard field goal on Sunday and made two of three extra-poiint attempts.

Gerald McCoy, DT, Carolina (OU, Southeast HS): He had three tackles in a 42-10 setback to New Orleans.

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The Lehites and Arabia | Dan Peterson – Patheos

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A passage that Ive extracted from Gordon Darnell Newby, A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), 8-9:

When we think of Arabia, we imagine natura maligna at its worst. Even the ancient geographers who called the southern cultivable portion of the peninsula Arabia Felix (Fortunate Arabia) did so with knowledge of the considerable irony of the name. Arabia is a land of extremes. It is a quadrilateral plateau with a spine of mountains on its western side. These mountains are 5,000 feet in average height, with the highest peak, at 12,336 feet, in Yemen. The center of the peninsula is hard desert with numerous oases, but not extant permanent water courses. Around this is a soft, sandy desert that has acted as an effective barrier for the interior. . . .

Little rain falls on Arabia, the greatest amount being in the highlands of Yemen. The average rainfall is less than three inches a year, which falls in just four or five days. Temperatures have been recorded over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and below zero and can range from freezing to over 100 in a single day.

Reading this passage, I cant help but think of Lehi and his party, a tiny band from the Mediterranean world that sought refuge in Arabia when Jerusalem was threatened by Nebuchadnezzar II during the early sixth century BC. They carefully avoided the area that would eventually be known as Arabia Felix, going due east from Nahom to the Old World area that they called Bountiful, traveling behind the mountains that separate Yemen from inner Arabia.

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Music And Spirituality At ‘Rising Song’ Event – Jewish Week

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Rabbi Yosef Goldman, a leader in the movement to bring Jewish spirituality and song together, has a simple goal: My central concern today is bringing people together and fostering a sense of community through music.

That goal brought Goldman who learned to daven from Cantor Sherwood Goffin at Lincoln Square Synagogue but who is equally comfortable at the Carlebach Shul and the Renewal congregation Romemu back to New York City last week for the ninth installment of Rising Song Intensive, held at Bnai Jeshurun. He was the featured performer and instructor at the four-day event.

Goldman, 41, is co-director, with Joey Weisenberg, of the Rising Song Institute, a project of the egalitarian Yeshivat Hadar that aims to cultivate Jewish spiritual life through song, according to its website. The institute is headquartered in Philadelphia, where Goldman is now based.

The two are offering a vision of a more user-friendly 21st-century synagogue, one built around singing and spontaneity, combining two millennia of Jewish liturgy with the modern energies of an actively participating congregation.

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With the Institute, Goldman and Weisenberg are making that ideal a well-schooled reality.

One of the things we did was to launch a residency program, a nine-month spiritual incubator, Goldman explained. The enrollees have their own course of study, four hours a day, four days a week, in which they study everything from the rudiments of music to nusach, how to lead song circles, how to daven together. We have Shabbat services that are open to the public. Our model is artist-in-residence programs. We want people to go out from the program and create new paradigms of musical, spiritual and communal leadership.

That may sound ambitious, but the goal is ultimately even more utopian.

Were exploring the place where social justice and spiritually-rooted interfaith work meet, Goldman said. We want to draw on leaders and activists from different faiths to explore how we can bring people together through our shared values.

Nearly 250 people attended the Rising Song Intensive at Bnai Jeshurun, and Goldman says the concert that in large part was a tribute to his music drew 800. The timing coincided with the first recording of his own music, Open My Heart (available from risingsong.org).

Goldman was grateful to be back to his natural habitat on the Upper West Side.

There are so many places just on the Upper West Side that were formative for me in ways that Im drawing on in this work. It will always be a spiritual home.

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Divine grace found in messiness of imperfect life – Times Colonist

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Every new year, I vow to clean up a lot of things in my life. My diet. My house. Even the apps on my phone and the files on my computer.

I also make plans to clean up my spiritual life. Ill resolve to finally get into a prayer or contemplation routine. Or that Ill get to a church service every weekend (or thereabouts). And Ill start a gratitude practice.

Then life intervenes and things get messy. I fall behind and dont do what Ive set out to. I beat up on myself, and the negative self-talk begins. Finally, I just give up, saying to myself, Well, Ive never managed to keep it up so why start? Im just going to fail.

Its a bit of a self-defeating cycle. And, I wonder, if its what spirituality and engaging with the Divine is all about. Do I really have to become Kevin 2.0 in order to be spiritual? Is spirituality merely a never-ending self-improvement project?

So, lately, Im thinking about whether focusing on somehow making myself better is kind of an issue. Its also, Im coming to understand, not the point. Rather than cleaning up maybe I try to live out of that messiness instead. Its whats real, after all.

I was thinking about all of this when the Christmas issue of Nadia Bolz-Webers email newsletter showed up in my inbox. Shes a Lutheran minister and public theologian in the United States. Bolz-Weber writes a lot about grace, and this holiday missive was no exception.

Bolz-Weber writes theres a reason shes obsessed with grace. She says our world is fixated on making judgements and hoarding wealth and being best and OPTIMIZATION, and thats shes triedtrying harder, but that doesnt make her free. It just exhausts her.

I really resonated with this, particularly when she went on to write, Maybe you too vow each morning to try harder so you can finally feel like you are enoughToday I will start meditating and become a vegan and start training for a marathon and go back to college and go to the container store to so I can organize my life and be in control.

Grace, says Bolz-Weber, is the exact opposite being in control. You cant earn it, but you receive it just because you need it. Grace might be inconvenient, but its what is necessary. You dont find grace, it finds you.

Not to quote Oprah, but I had a bit of an ah-hah moment at that.Why not meet the Divine where I am? After all, God is everywhere, just waiting to be noticed. Thats grace. It shows up in all the messiness of life. In fact, grace exists because of the messiness of life.

Yes, spiritual practices are good. A regular routine is good. Worshipping in community is great. You are more likely to notice the Divine when you make time to really look. But, God is in every moment, jumping up and down and waving ecstatically, waiting for us to see. Or whispering that we might hear.

So, this year, Im resolving to embrace my messy spirituality. Its just as grace-filled and valid as the one I think I should have. Maybe more so. Because its real and grounded in whats going on, right now, in every moment. Its where God arrives to meet me.

And, like the best kind of company, theres no cleaning required to invite the Divine in.

(If youd like to read and subscribe to Bolz-Webers e-newsletter, its called Just Throwing it Out There and you can find it atnadiabolzweber.substack.com)

Kevin Aschenbrenner is a Victoria-based writer, poet and communications professional. He holds an M.A. in Culture and Spirituality from the Sophia Center at Holy Names University in Oakland, Calif. He blogs atwww.dearpopefrancis.ca.

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Shamanism in Nepal: Inside the practices and spiritual world of Jhakri – The Independent

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Jhakri is the Nepalese word for shaman; in Nepal it refers to practitioners of the ethnic groups of the Tamang, Magar, Rai, Limbu and Gurung people.

Chet Bahadur Thing, 26, a renowned shaman, felt a connection with the spiritual world, and learning from his grandfather, he started practising shamanism at the age of 11. He is now considered a guru in his community. He says: During ancient times, when there was no medical science or hospitals, shamans used to treat the patients in our village. Even now, people with spiritual problems or body pain visit us for healing or treatment or when doctors cannot heal them.

Eighteen-year-old Sheela Lamichhane is a student of management in Kathmandu and apractisingshaman. Ever since her older sister got severely ill and then was treated by a shaman shehas been fascinated by those who practice it.

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She even became possessed herself:I used to run in the middle of the road barefoot like some crazy girl,she recalls. Her parents took her to Thing, who, after purgingthe evil spirit,began her shaman training. She passed several tests, including the most important, a seven-day fasting ritual called gufaand a holy river meditation.

Gufa typically refers to a cave where aspiring shamans attend fasting and classes over the course of a week. They have to perform puja, a Hindu act of worship, chant mantras, play drums and dance in the middle of the night over burning ashes or coals.

Shamans believe that they will gain power or energy from God if they are able to dance barefoot over the burning coals. After the completion of this first test, shaman practitioners must go to a holy river for meditation. Half submerged in the river waters, they have to chant mantras and meditate for more than three hours. This ritual is meant to build confidence and provide energy to become a shaman, but not everyone can pass this test.

Lamichhane attends her regular classes at college, before treating patients at home with her parents assistance during the afternoon. She will need to pass more tests to get fully certified as a shaman, which should take about two more years.

I had a dream to be a doctor when I was 10years old and today people know me as a witch doctor. I feel like I was destined,she says.

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The three most important walks of existence: spirituality, relationships, and career success | By Judith Nwadigo – Qwenu!

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When it comes to setting priorities in life, a lot of people are lost. We focus more on trivial issues and less on important ones. We always forget that everything in our lives is intertwined. Therefore if we focus more on the influential parts, it is sure to affect the trivial parts of our existence which lead us to the three most important walks of existence; spirituality, relationships and career success or accomplishments.

Starting off with spirituality, the term spiritual can be referred to as a connection to the supernatural realm, that is, the immaterial realm. Spirituality can be explained in many ways, depending on beliefs or revolution. The first thing we should know is that spirituality deals with mystery. Christianity explains spirituality as a life initiated and oriented by the Holy Spirit, that is, most decisions are taken in accordance with the will of the Holy Spirit.

Tradition explains it as a religious process of the reformation of man in accordance with the image of the gods or ancestors. The modern definition explains it as a bowing experience of a consecrated dimension and the deepest value and meaning by which people live. It can be said to be an encounter with ones inner self or dimension, self supereminence, the purity of self motives, affections, intentions and inner disposition.

It is integral that is why it is a mystery. Talking about why spirituality should be dominant, the sources of most of our life events are deeply rooted in mystery. It is like you are in this world of things you are yet to understand and you have nobody to put you through so you keep yielding to danger. Spirituality is like life insurance, that is, it provides backup when you are lost, it gives you an insight into how you should see life.

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There are different beneficial forms of connecting to the higher realm. First, meditation which means keeping your mind fixed on something. Meditation can induce feelings of calmness and clear-headedness and can improve concentration and attention. It also has some overlooked health benefits which are; it reduces sensitivity to pain, enhances your immune system and relieves stress. Prayer is another form of connection to the supernatural but in this case, there is physical communication. Prayer brings relaxation along with the feeling of hope and gratitude. Spirituality provides comfort and helps you make better and healthier choices.

Secondly, the relationship aspect is the biggest aspect of human existence because we were created based on it. Relationships which is mostly interpersonal is the association between two or more people based on romantic attraction, love, solidarity, regular basic interactions or other types of social commitments. There are many types of relationships ranging from family to intimate relationships.

Our existence is based on relationships from start to finish. You need a relationship with the supernatural realm to make better decisions and to connect to your inner self, you need a good relationship with your family to understand what it means to be loved sacrificially, without compromise, to know what a home can be like. You need a relationship with your peers to know what it feels like to be among your age grade. You need a good relationship with business partners to earn contracts and favour. You need a committed relationship to find love and reproduce. You need a relationship for virtually everything in life.

The purpose of interpersonal relationship is to actively and continually facilitate the growth and development of each other. Without a relationship, you would never feel like a normal human being because you will never understand what trust and love really mean. We cannot also ignore the fact that relationships are very important for the overall well being of an individual as doing otherwise may result in problems in many aspects of life. Relationships increase our emotional well being creates stability and gives us someone to talk to and trust in times of need or difficulty. There is no health in being alone.

Lastly, career success or accomplishment. Fulfilment is very important when it comes to personal career accomplishment because it gives you a deep sense of purpose. When there is fulfilment in our careers there is this sense of joy and pleasure and we are not left feeling empty. Career accomplishment is very important because it is a requirement for basic survival therefore an unfulfilling career can be very bad. Everything just goes well when you love what you do ranging from making new friends to personal contentment.

Our self worth has been tied to our professional worth in different ways. When it comes to meeting new people, career talk is always part of the discussion. People want to know what you are doing so that they know if they should stick with you or not. People are also stereotyped in relation to what they do. Personal fulfilment is the continual journey of self-discovery and contentment with your position in life. Achievement without fulfilment leaves you feeling blank.

We should learn to put what is important as a priority before jumping into other unnecessary things and when the spiritual, relational and career aspect of your life is very sound, things would be better for you.

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Oddity is an Earthbound spiritual successor that used to be a fan sequel – PC Gamer

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The Mother series, known as EarthBound outside of Japan, stopped with Mother 3 in 2006, and only the second game was released internationally. That hasn't stopped fans from carrying a torch for it over the years, with one group deciding to stop waiting for Nintendo and create their own sequel, which has now transformed into a separate game with a new name, Oddity.

While the overt connections have been dropped, the trailer still gives out plenty of EarthBound vibes. There's a fate of the world quest, fancy powers and demons to kill, but like EarthBound it's still an urban RPG, this time set in the '70s.

The baseball bat-wielding Travis Fields has developed weird abilities thanks to a mysterious exploding gate and must use them to save the world from an assortment of monsters and a secret society. The moon, not wanting to be left out, is also in peril.

The art, cast and combat are definitely meant to evoke EarthBound, but the style remains just as appealing now as it always has.

There's no release date yet, sadly, but EarthBound fans should be used to waiting. It's been 25 years since the last game to leave Japan launched in the US, and it didn't get an official worldwide release until a few years ago. Thank god for emulation.

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GUEST COLUMN: The spiritual pleasure (and poetry) of flowers – Wicked Local

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Since we have experienced the winter solstice, I'll take this opportunity to move halfway around the cycle of the seasons backward or forward to celebrate the season of growth and abundance.

Since we have experienced the winter solstice, I'll take this opportunity to move halfway around the cycle of the seasons backward or forward to celebrate the season of growth and abundance. I've been growing a perennial flower garden for a decade and a half. If there is anything more spiritual than growth, I dont know what it is. If there is anything more blatantly dedicated to growth than a plant ditto.

If you grow daylilies, the first weeks after the summer solstice will be a kind of Christmas in July. Many varieties of daylilies bloom in this mid-summer period, a season I love and wait for each year, but also experience with a kind of anticipated regret, knowing that each passing day according to the iron law of this hard-blooming species means that we gardeners and flower-lovers will lose the previous days entire cohort of these beautiful warriors in the battle to bring color and a fundamentally indescribable materiality into existence. This is what we mean, I think, when we speak of loving flowers: taking pleasure in living things that succeed on planet earth century after century, millennia after millennia, simply by making themselves appear attractive to species of an entirely different order of being!

This is what flowering green plants do: They attract the attention of other living things to help spread their seed and disseminate the means to perpetuate the species; in effect carrying out the same responsibility the higher animals do when we mate, reproduce, and guard our offspring with our lives. This is how we keep the world going round, obeying a command of our deepest nature. The example of flowering plants suggests that beauty, growth, the urge to survive, and the instincts to do it are all means toward achieving a single, universal goal to enable and perpetuate life.

If flowering plants have a religion, that's it. And, of course, they express it so beautifully. This is why, perhaps, some of us get wrapped up in the success, or (sad to say) failure, of so many of the plants we spend the summer with. We desire to know how well our favorites take daylilies, again are going to perform in a given season. It excites me, pleases me, to notice that the most common member of this family, the native orange-blooming so-called ditch lily, has spread its offspring to some corner of the garden where it hasn't appeared before.

In our garden plants can spread out or disseminate, or send forth new colonies, or adopt new family members into their neighborhood, because I am a lax disciplinarian and a liberal-minded ruler. Few dominions are fixed. Natural selection is given room to operate here. Things grow, expand, march forth, occupy territory. Some decline in numbers, and unfortunately a few disappear. I try to protect the smaller and more vulnerable species, but I am a distractable god, and a forgettable one, and can't keep track of everyone.

A garden (at least ours) is a living kingdom. When the echinacea or the tall phlox jump to a place near the white fence that once was occupied by what? I don't think I remember I respond philosophically. The plants in our modestly sized yard (where most people plant grass we planted flowers, shrubs, and a couple of small trees) are inspirations, not show dogs. Some of them are mutts, visitors from elsewhere who stayed. They are exempla of freedom and possibility; birth, beauty and death. Of change and the river of time. They are shooting out blossoms, firing the flower and fruit of their nature.

Reach for the skies, people. I'm with you in spirit.

A funny thing has happened in the years since I planted this garden. I began writing poems, a lot of them, a thing absent from my life for decades. This is what I think: Growing involves one intimately with the seasons. The seasons consistently faithfully give rise to certain kinds of thoughts. Thoughts that sometimes, I find, give rise to poems.

In fact, I celebrate this time of year the season of the beautiful dark as well as the time of long days and bright colors. Im drawn to the stirring pageant of the early sunsets and lingering twilights that steal the scene so impossibly early that we stop to exclaim, Where has the day gone? Though we know the answer: to the other side of the earth.

But, ah, evening. Wings of darkness closing about us. Sometimes it can feel gentle, protective, maternal, a gathering-in by nature of her children, a bedding down of the soul. I will put this effort to bed with a poem that aspires to suggest the spirituality of home, caring, family (and, perhaps, familiarity) and an enduring faith in the seasons.

Resignation at Dusk

One of those still and silent twilights,

a kiss goodnight from the earth's persistence

No one will take a vote on the sky

The pink lip along the thickly treed horizon,

the soft pouch of leafage, upturned like gloved hands

to take us down to where it is safe, and beautiful

and sky kisses earth goodnight and chants,

slowly,

the prayer for forgiveness, the prayer for gentle touches,

the prayer for deeper, dream-filled journeys,

the prayer for better selves,

the remembrance of best love, held hands,

love domestic...

like secret things told

to a child.

("Resignation at Dusk" was published by 3288 Review, Spring 2019)

Bob Knox is a freelance journalist and author and a former assistant editor of the Old Colony Memorial.

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Mother Teresa’s former spiritual advisor accused of raping boy more than 1000 times – LGBTQ Nation

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The former spiritual advisor to Mother Teresa has been accused of raping one boy more than 1000 times all over the world in a new lawsuit filed against the Catholic Church.

The Reverend Donald McGuire molested Bobby Goldberg from age 11 the court documents say, adding that he had the boy travel the world with him as his protege. Goldberg is now 61.

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Goldberg is suing the church, saying the former priest indoctrinated him and manipulated him into performing sexual touching, oral copulation, and anal penetration.

McGuire was treated at a residential center in 1994 and criminallyconvicted of sexually abusing young boys in 2003. He died behind bars in 2016.

Mother Teresa wrote a character reference for McGuire when he was in treatment, saying, I have confidence and trust in Fr. McGuire and wish to see his vital ministry resume as soon as possible. Her nuns swarmed the courtroom during McGuires trial wearing badges that said I support Father McGuire.

Goldberg says that McGuire gave his single mother a job and would use that as leverage to keep him compliant with his sexual demands. He said the priest would lock him in a room for hours if he refused to perform a menu of sexual favors on him.

During McGuires trial, Goldberg was a character witness for the pedophile priest, but he says listening to the stories from victims helped him realize that he too had been manipulated and groomed.

Mother Teresa was a celebrity and kept company with other celebrities. Her meteoric rise landed her in the foyers of mansions and at the dinner tables of world leaders. She was able to parlay her reputation for piety and good works into a lucrative fundraising scheme. She raised millions of dollars, ostensibly to fund her charitable organizations.

Faulty bookkeeping, secrecy, and incompetence prevent accurate accounting of these considerable financial resources.Following her death, some accounts were discovered in traditional tax havens, all brimming with cash, their origins and purpose unknown.

While its impossible to ascertain the motives behind these financial discrepancies, while some of those in her care suffered and eventually perished from curable diseases in her houses for the dying, no expenses were spared when it came to Mother Teresas own health; even the smallest medical complaint led to immediate hospitalization at a top-notch hospital in the United States.

Not only were her celebrity acquaintances great funders, but some served her political goals to improve Catholic standing as well. She famously applauded Baby Doc Duvalier, a totalitarian dictator in Haiti, for his compassion.

Mother Teresa never condemned McGuire for molesting numerous young boys in his care. She was made a saint by the Catholic Church in 2016 the year that McGuire died in prison.

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Fruit Of The Spirit, According To Galatians 5 – YourTango

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These spiritual fruits are gifts good for the body, mind and soul.

What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to the Bible? According to Galatians 5, God gifts Christians spiritual fruit to encourage and strengthen faith.

Fruits are good for you, at least thats what we were told growing up. Plenty of studies have come out debating the topic. So, if physical fruit is healthy, imagine how beneficial fruits that are gifts from God can be for your body, mind, and spirit.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23

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The Catholic Vulgate says that there are 12 fruits of the spirit: charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, and chastity. Some faiths argue that there are 7 and some say there are 9 spiritual fruits given to believers who are growing in their faith with God.

Most of these are qualities that you wouldve (or shouldve) been raised with. Youre taught to love everyone, be patient when waiting for something, be kind to one another and so on.

Its something youve probably been practicing your whole life without even realizing it. And, even if you dont cover all nine, you probably at least cover one or two of them.

If youre unsure if you exemplify each spiritual fruit or how you can start to demonstrate the maturity of a believer, allow me to explain each gift from God, according to Galatians 5 of the Bible.

This ones pretty simple. There are all sorts of ways to show love, whether its for a family member, friend or significant other. Just showing that you care is typically enough.

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You should be joyous in your life in Christ. Find what makes you happy through God. True joy can only be found through journey and self-discovery and it certainly doesnt hurt to have a bit of guidance too.

The Bible defines the gift of peace as maintaining harmony. Dont go out of your way to cause violence and make the best effort you can to get along with everyone. Look for inner peace as well, because its just as if not more important than outer peace.

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This is another one thats pretty self-explanatory. Whether youre waiting on a person or a package, reminding yourself to be patient can help to keep your mind at ease (which also helps with peace)!

This is kind of like love but in a more casual sense. You should make the effort to be kind to everyone you know and meet. This means not being insulting or ragging on others and making an effort to help when the opportunity arises.

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If there was an actual scale of whether something is good or bad, this fruit would embody it. Its telling you to do the best you can to stay on the good side. This isnt like the idea of if you do enough good things you get into Heaven.

Its more like not intentionally sinning, asking for forgiveness and doing your best to be good in Gods eyes by living faithfully in Christ.

This is straightforward. Listen to God and learn from the Bible. Live your life under the guidance of Christian principles. Doing that shows your faith not only to God but to others as well.

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Another way to put this would be understanding. Think of it as a parent and child situation. When the child does something wrong, rather than yelling at them, the parent is gentle, even in discipline.

Perhaps the hardest of the fruits to practice in life. It applies to so much of our lives, from preventing impulse buys to controlling your temper. But without it, the world would be much more chaotic than it already is.

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Honestly, none of the fruits rank higher than another. Theyre all of equal importance because theyre all things you should practice in your daily life.

Even putting aside being a Christian, these are the qualities that make up a decent human being. The Fruits of the Spirit are like guiding principles in life.

Now while theyre all equal, none of them quite embodies all the others like love.

According to 1 Corinthians 13, a popular Bible scripture love is the greatest gift of all.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesnt envy. Love doesnt brag, is not proud, doesnt behave itself inappropriately, doesnt seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesnt rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:

To put it another way, love is joyful, love is peaceful, love is patient, love is kind, love is good, love is faithful, love is gentle and love is using self-control to have the best possible relationships with others.

Love is a gift and it covers so much in life. Its why there are so many romance movies, why love and friendship is a theme in so many shows and why we care so much about our families (even if we dont want to admit it). Love gives us all of the Fruits of the Spirit wrapped up with a nice little bow.

However, just because love touches all the bases doesnt mean thats the only one you need. Just as the body cant live off of apples alone, the soul needs all of the fruits. Practicing all of them will make you the best version of yourself in your faith.

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Expanding the physical and spiritual in Swansea space – Fall River Herald News

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SWANSEA Blending her business and spiritual sides, Jessica Kozak has been expanding Soul Purpose, a haven for the soul, for years in the Swansea area.

Yoga, starting on Jan. 6, is her newest offering to compliment a wide spanning spiritual menu that dabbles in everything from meditation to psychic development.

Its a holistic educational center, and a wellness center, Kozak said. Were really excited.

Her physical location at LaPointe Plaza, 1225 GAR Highway, will also change. But Soul Purpose wont go far. It will be in a bigger space in the same plaza.

Its been exciting and scary, said Kozak, who started her business in 2005 in an in-law apartment in Dighton. Weve grown so much. It challenges you to take a chance on your vision and yourself.

From Dighton, she moved to a site in Somerset, which she outgrew in a year, and then to a 750-foot location in her current plaza. She moved to a 1,400-foot unit about six years ago, and when construction is finished, shell take up a new storefront with 2,200 square feet inside.

I helped design the new space, Kozak said.

A larger room for regular yoga classes will be part of the addition.

Ive always wanted to have yoga, Kozak said. There was a need for it. Im excited to offer it.

She said classes will mainly focus on traditional Hatha and Vinyassa yoga disciplines and will include stretching, exercise and meditation for all levels.

Were all shapes and sizes here, Kozak said.

With a background in banking and a degree in both business and psychology, Kozak brings her two worlds together for her clients benefit.

Offerings at Soul Purpose include energy medicine, massage, reiki, meditation, aromatherapy, acupuncture, generational healing, psychic development, mystical oracle readings, reflexology, sound therapy, quantum healing, plus classes and trainings in some of these disciplines, and more.

There will also be an interfaith chapel at the new site.

While Kozak, an ordained minister, has a devotion to Mother Mary, she said the chapel is non-denominational and available to people of all, or no, faiths.

Im more expansive, Kozak said. I work with people whatever their belief system.

Shes also a spiritual medium and said shes been intuitive her whole life, seeing angels and helping to interpret their meaning for others.

Theyve been a consistent presence in my life, Kozak said. They really try to help us get back on track. They can come as the voice of intuition.

Bridging the holistic world to the mental health and medical communities, Kozak, a clinical aromatherapist, works with physicians, nurses, dentists and others.

I bring professionalism to the spiritual world, Kozak said.

Kozak said shes excited to be growing Soul Purpose once again and expanding spiritual services.

Sometimes, its surreal to see your vision manifest into reality, she said. I hope it inspires others to further their dreams. Nothing is impossible.

A free introductory yoga class will be offered on Friday, Jan. 3, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. A regular yoga schedule starts Monday, Jan. 6.

An open house will be planned when the new site is open in roughly February or March. For now, Soul Purpose will continue at its present location, 1225 GAR Highway. To learn more, visit https://www.the-soul-purpose.com.

Email Deborah Allard at dallard@heraldnews.com.

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Spiritually Speaking: What will your legacy be? – Wicked Local Westwood

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You are fettered, said Scrooge, trembling. Tell me why? I wear the chain I forged in life, replied the Ghost. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

What will be my legacy?

I always return to this question as one year ends and another begins and, in the case of 2020, as one decade fades into history and another decade prepares to take center stage. Not sure just why that curious query enters my thoughts now. Maybe it's because as I age and another Happy New Year! rings out, I realize that there are more Auld Ang Synes behind me than before me. That my chances to make a mark in this world are limited by time and fate.

And so, I wonder what will be my legacy?

What will I be remembered for, after I leave this earth and return to the Creator who made me? How about you? What will be your legacy? The life you will leave behind, the lives of others you touched and made better, or did not? The life of the community you lived in that is a better place, or is not, because you called that part of Creation home? How do you want to be remembered?

It's tempting to see these questions as somehow morbid, or too tender or too scary to ask. I get that. Who wants to imagine this life without one's self? Yet the truth is we are all born and we all live and we will all die, all of us, one day, perhaps in a very long time or perhaps sooner than we think. God only knows when that time will come, so it seems to me imperative that every once in a while like on the eve of another New Year's Eve we should think about this. My legacy. Reflect on this. Our legacies.

Not in material things, in what we will to our heirs. As a lifelong enthusiastic consumer, I know I put far too much stock into what I have, what I possess, what I own, what earthy things are important to me right now. We all do. We've got stuff, after all. Lots of stuff. Too much stuff. I've got a big house full of so many things. Though I fantasize that my stuff is precious, the reality is that all of these things: they will eventually rust and they will decay and they will fall apart and one day be no more, consigned to the landfill or the Salvation Army.

I mean really: will anyone want the legacy of my big-screen TV? Or my thousands of books (mostly science fiction) or my collection of far too many coffee mugs (don't even ask) or the broken snowblower in the garage I will surely fix someday (not!)? To me that's not a legacy, not in the truest sense. The world may tell us that she who dies with the most toys wins, but to God? To life? To those we leave behind? Stuff is just stuff. Disposable. Here today. Gone tomorrow.

The real legacy of life is an accumulation of the tens of thousands of daily moral and ethical and spiritual choices that we make each day. How we decide to live: this alone will determine our most important legacy on that last day.

Did our one life make a difference for the good? Did we use that life, a gift to us from our generous Creator, for the good, for the positive, and in service to others? Did we forgive quickly and love boldly? Were we merciful to the very young and to the very old? Did we help those who struggled in life: the poor, the sick, the lonely, the powerless? Were we good citizens and did we give ourselves over to some cause or ideal greater than ourselves? Did we laugh too often and cry too deeply and live with reckless joy and take risks and fall down and get back up and try again? Did we live with humility, knowing that we were just another bozo on the bus of life, no greater, no worse, than any of our fellow passenger?

Legacy.

Or did we live for self alone? Did we mock or tear down others to build our own selves up? Did we seek power for the sake of power, or use the authority we had over others to exploit or hurt them or to add to our own largesse? Did we take the gift of our body but then not treat it well? Were we quick to judge and slow to accept? Were we miserly with our money, hoarding it all for ourselves? Did we imagine that the way we lived: this alone was the answer for everyone else's life? Did we live with cynicism, expecting the worst, or live with apathy, leaving the work of life up to others? Did we imagine ourselves better than others? Did we die with a house full of possessions and a full bank account but with a sparsely attended memorial service?

What will be our legacy?

The good news is that if we are reading this, the legacy question has yet to be answered. So, Happy New Year but more important, happy legacy. I know I've still got lots of work to do. How about you?

The Rev. John F. Hudson is senior pastor of the Pilgrim Church, United Church of Christ, in Sherborn (pilgrimsherborn.org). If you have a word or idea you'd like defined in a future column or have comments, please send them to pastorjohn@pilgrimsherborn.org or in care of the Dover-Sherborn Press (Dover-Sherborn@wickedlocal.com).

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KATHMADU: Jhakri is the Nepali word for shaman. Jhakri refers to practitioners of the ethnic groups of the Tamang, Magar, Rai, Limbu, and Gurung people.

Chet Bahadur Thing, 26, a renowned shaman, felt a connection with the spiritual world, and learning from his grandfather, he started practicing shamanism at the age of 11. He is now considered a guru in his community. He says: During ancient times when there was no medical science or hospitals, shamans used to treat the patients in our village. Even now, people with spiritual problems or body pain visit us for healing or treatment or when doctors cannot heal them.

Eighteen-year-old Sheela Lamichhane is a student of management in Kathmandu and a practicing shaman. Ever since her older sister got severely ill and then was treated by a shaman she has been fascinated by those who practice it.

She even became possessed herself: I used to run in the middle of the road barefoot like some crazy girl, she recalls. Her parents took her to Thing, who, after purging the evil spirit, began her shaman training. She passed several tests, including the most important, a seven-day fasting ritual called gufa and a holy river meditation.

Gufa typically refers to a cave where aspiring shamans attend fasting and classes over the course of a week. They have to perform puja, a Hindu act of worship, chant mantras, play drums and dance in the middle of the night over burning ashes or coals.

Shamans believe that they will gain power or energy from God if they are able to dance barefoot over the burning coals. After the completion of this first test, shaman practitioners must go to a holy river for meditation. Half submerged in the river waters, they have to chant mantras and meditate for more than three hours. This ritual is meant to build confidence and provide energy to become a shaman, but not everyone can pass this test.

Lamichhane attends her regular classes at college, before treating patients at home with her parents assistance during the afternoon. She will need to pass more tests to get fully certified as a shaman, which should take about two more years.

I had a dream to be a doctor when I was 10 years old and today people know me as a witch doctor. I feel like I was destined, she says.

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Belgian actor Mehdi Dehbi is best known for appearing in Mary Queen of Scots and A Most Wanted Man on the big screen, as well as stage work in plays including Romeo and Juliet and The Just Assassins. But his very first role, at age 3, was playing Jesus when his parochial school staged scenes from the Bible. Now, he has brought his career full-circle, in a sense, by taking on the titular role in Netflixs Messiah, in which his character is believed by some to be to be a savior, while others think he is a con artist.

How did you tackle the uncertainty around whether or not your character, Al-Masih, was a true messiah or if he was a manipulator?

Whatever people want to project on him or on the story or on the show is part of the show itself. The show doesnt want to impose anything on anyone ideologically or politically. Its really a show that invites people to experience, rather than tell them what to believe. So whatever people want to project onto the character or onto the story, its totally valid, its totally fine. When it comes to my work and how I approached the character, there was a pact I made with the creator, Michael Petroni, for me to keep all of the intentions, all of the inside work, to myself. And to this day Ive kept it to myself, so I think Ill keep on doing.

But even without getting into the details of what you believed about him, you had to have a clear idea.

Absolutely, yes.

How were you able to formulate that? Did you have all of the scripts and the entire arc right from the start?

We had the whole script. It really worked like a film. Working on this felt like working on movies, and all 10 episodes really felt like one, so I had the whole story and could decide from what was written. With this part, you can read the script and have stereotypes in your mind, so I had to get rid of all of the stereotypes and cliches and the skins that I didnt need to play the role. And when I arrived on set on the day, I knew I was ready. I didnt know the day before, but on the day I was ready.

What historical or other works did you rely on to help strip away stereotypes but still have him rooted in reality?

To me, religion is the structure, and beyond the structure is the essence of things. And what was more important than anything else was the essence of teachings of what he was saying. I read a lot of books on figures from every religion and stories of yogis and more recent figures like Osho and Jiddu Krishnamurti. And then I saw a lot of movies about Jesus and the Buddha, and I had to understand what I wanted to avoid doing. To be genuine and authentic, it had to come from within me.

Al-Masih is a very still, calm character who often spends scenes in perfect posture, not moving at all. What does it take to get into that headspace and perform that physicality?

I was already, on a personal level, looking for that stillness in my life. With working on him, I pushed that even further. I felt like working on him required me to stay silent and to be within myself and to basically stay contained throughout the whole shoot. It was challenging, and it was isolating, but the part required that.

Aside from the physicality, what scene or character choice did you find the most challenging to crack?

More than a scene specifically, its really being with the character for a year and not getting out of character for a year. I had six months of prep and six months of shoot, and this is a long time to stay with such an intense character. So my life really was pushed aside, and that was hard. And also with my fellow actors, I really wanted to be more available to them after set when they wanted to go and socialize and do things, but I couldnt. So those were the two most painful things. But working on set was not painful; I love working, and working on characters like that gives you so much understanding and strength about you as a person and about the world.

What did you learn about yourself as a performer from taking on this role, and what did you learn about religion, or peoples responses to religion?

I did a lot of very deep spiritual work prior to having Messiah come into my life, during and after; thats just my journey. For me, acting is a spiritual thing, and it has been throughout my whole life, so the more I learn about my craft, the more I learn about human beings. Humanstry, I call it: the artistry of being human. It requires you to do the work yourself. So, for example, whenever he said things like, You have to shed your burdeons and you have to shed your fear, how could I myself say those words without really understanding what they meant for me, personally? So I did that. But when it comes to religion, I think that spirituality has not much to do with religion. I think that religion is interesting, but in the case of this show, spirituality goes beyond religion.

Did you gain new perspective on international relations from working on the show?

We were very fortunate to have real Syrians real people who have fled the country, and who lived the war and be connected to reality. These people had beautiful faces and eyes and energies and were telling you incredible stories about their lives, and you are in the fiction of that, and all of a sudden you come back to a strong wall of reality, and that was beautiful and inspiring.

What role is the right one to follow in the messiahs footsteps?

I believe in the law of attraction, and when I was three years old I was raised in a Catholic school, and every Thursday we went to the church and we played scenes of the Bible, and the first role I ever played in my life was Jesus. And in my mind I always knew and I always had somewhere there that I wanted to not specifically play Jesus but a spirit close to that kind of beautiful, vibrating love. And it came. Im very grateful for that, and I feel like after this, Im very open and grateful for whatever will happen, but right now I dont know how to answer that because Im not finished with him.

Things you didnt know about Mehdi DehbiAge: 34Born: Liege, BelgiumOther artistic talents: I make music, I write poetry, and I direct theater.Most recent binge-watch: MessiahLast book he read: Thirst by Amlie NothombHow he relaxes on set: Classical music

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Over the past decade the pace of neuroscience innovation has continued to accelerate, with scientists harnessing advanced technologies and collaborative Open Science frameworksto pioneer new breakthroughs. Want to look back on the past 10 years? Here are some of the most significant neuroscience discoveries of the 2010s.

2010 saw Argentinian neuroscientist and professor Fernando Nottebohm honoured with the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences for proving that neurogenesis does occur in the adult vertebrate brain. The discovery was a serious breakthrough for neuroscience, with member sof the Benjamin Franklin Medal committee praising Nottebohm for "generating a completely new approach to the quest for cures for brain injury and degenerative disease."

In 2012 American scientist Van Wedeen pioneered an award-winning study that revealed the intricate wiring patterns of the human brain. It was one of the first studies to portray the organ as a complex yet systematic grid, as opposed to a disorderly tangle.

In 2014 the FIFA World Cup made more than just sports headlines when Brazilian physician Miguel Nicolelis developed a robotic suit that allowed a quadriplegic teen to kick-off the opening game of the tournament. Nicolelis was later inaugurated as a member of the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Researchers from the University of Manchester kicked off 2016 with a major finding that linked the development of Alzheimers disease to a specific type of virus, as well as two strains of bacteria. The study helped support evidence that the neurodegenerative disease is partly caused by a dormant microbial component, possible triggered by iron dysregulation.

2018 marked a major milestone for neurotechnology, with an open-access studypublished inPLOS One introducing a brain implant system that allows patients paralysed by neurodegenerative disorders to send emails, communicate with others and shop online using brain waves connected to an off-the-shelf Android tablet.

Just weeks before the end of 2019, scientists at the University of North Carolina Health Care discovered a key neural circuit that actively regulates alcohol consumption in animals. The findings were published in the Journal of Neuroscience and offered new insight into the role brain cells play in influencing reward-induced behaviours such as alcohol consumption.

Want to know more about the latest neuroscience breakthroughs? Backed by five years of research, Dementias Platform UK is working to transform the dementia research landscape and accelerate the development of diagnosis and treatments, with some of the most significant advances explored in 'Changing Dementia Horizons: DPUK Progress Outlined.

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Neuroscience is a humbling enterprise. As a wise person once said, if the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldnt. But still, we make progress, with implications for medicine, artificial intelligence, education, and philosophy. So what is the future of the study of the brain, and what is the future of the brain itself?

In November, I traveled to Madrid to join about 30 neuroscientists, entrepreneurs, and computer scientists (and a former head of NASA) in a two-day discussion about the future of the brain. (The summit was an iteration of the Future Trends Forum, organized by the nonprofit Fundacion Innovacin Bankinter. The organizers paid for everyones travel.)

The Spanish science writer Pere Estupinya and I were asked to offer commentary during the event. Below is a version of the synthesis (and provocation) I presented.

The discussion followed several themes. First, presenters highlighted ways that computer science is helping neuroscience. Alex Fornito, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monash University, in Australia, scans brains using diffusion MRI, which tracks water molecules to trace anatomical connectivity. He then uses algorithms to segment the brain into different regions, forming a network of nodes and the links between them. Using network analysis, he can identify the particular dysfunctions of ADHD, schizophrenia, and Alzheimers disease.

Sean Hill, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, scans microcircuits in mouse brains and creates digital reconstructions, allowing him to model network oscillations. He also uses high-resolution scans of entire mouse brains to predict the locations of synapses across the brain. Other researchers talked about using computers to interpret signals from EEG electrodes, body sensors, and brain implants.

Several people talked about going the other way, using neuroscience to improve AI. Evena child can solve problemsa supercomputer cant while expending much less energy. Can we reverse engineer some of biologys tricks?

Fornito talked about tradeoffs between time, space, and material. Some network modules conserve space and material by placing neurons near each other, while hubs that integrate information use thick, fast connections that conserve time at the expense of space and material. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, impressed on us the abilities of organisms that dont even have a central nervous system. Merely maintaining homeostasis is a feat. Speaking of robots, he said that if we gave them soft bodies and made them vulnerable, they might develop feelings and self-regulation.

Rodrigo Quian, a bioengineer at the University of Leicester, discussed his discovery of Jennifer Aniston neurons, cells that respond selectively to a particular person (such as Jennifer Aniston), whether someone sees a picture, a drawing, or just a name. More broadly, he spoke of concept cells and noted that humans are flexible and efficient thinkersunlike many AI agentsbecause we can abstract from experience without being beholden to the details.

Third, many people discussed ethics. Walter Greenleaf, a neuroscientistat Stanford, asked if gene editing would diminish neurodiversity.David Bueno, a geneticist at the University of Barcelona, said we might tailor peoples educations based on their brains, but raised the possibility of inequality in cognitive enhancement. He also noted that wide monitoring of brain activity could invade privacy.

Amanda Pustilnik, a lawyer at the University of Maryland, said someones brain data might alert him when hes about to have a manic attack, but it could also go to a data broker, and hell start seeing ads for online gambling. Or it could make its way to an employer. We need a NINA, or Neuroscience Information Nondiscrimination Act, she said. Pustilnik also argued that neurotechnology should promote autonomy, rather than a deterministic identification with our brains.

Others noted neuroscientific implications for identity. Ng Wai Hoe, a neurosurgeon at the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore, asked what we should conclude about a persons criminality based on a brain scan. And Jose Carmena, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, said that some people with deep brain stimulators for Parkinsons disease or epilepsy say their sense of self is different when the stimulator is on.

A few of the questions I (and others) raised at the forum: Will neurotech and AI provide the greatest benefits to people at the top or the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy? Will learning about the brain actually have an impact on how we see ourselves orfree will? How can we reduce bias in medical data? What other principles of biology can be applied to make thinking machines smarter?

Our understanding of the brain is growing quickly, thanks in part to new tools for studying it. Perhaps the biggest revelation is how much more is left to learn.

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Automatic Speech Recognition Software Market Innovative Report Growth Impact over the Forecast Year 2020-2029: Google, Baidu, Inc. – Neptune Pine

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To Ease Climate Anxiety, Reconnect with the Rhythms of the Seasons – Scientific American

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Climate-related anxiety and depression is an increasingly common malady. Reestablishing a conscious awareness and a bodily connection with the ebb and flow of the seasons, by observing and documenting whats happening outside our windows, is a grounding activity that can restore comfort.

Disconnection from natures seasonal cycles, and from nature in general, has become more common in recent decades, and with it has come a certain restlessness. A simple way we can reestablish this crucial connection with the seasons is by regularly taking noteon paperof what is occurring in the plants and animals in our lives over the course of the year. Because events like leaf out, migration and egg hatch are cued by seasonal warmth, rainfall and sun angle, they elegantly reflect the rhythm of the seasons.

Taking the time to observe the changes in an organism over the course of a year can reconnect us to these cycles. And taking the effort to write down what is observed focuses our thoughts, grounds us, and more firmly cements the information in our minds.

The practice of carefully documenting the timing of events like the first arrival of migratory birds in the spring and first hint of leaf color in autumn has existed for millennia. A record of the first cherry blossoms to appear each spring in Kyoto, Japan extends to the ninth century. Members of the Marsham family have tracked flowering time in dozens of plants in Great Britain since the 1700s. These historical records are some of our best resources to determine how much the timing of events like leaf out and egg hatch in certain species have changed in recent years, serving as an invaluable contribution to science.

Taking this form of action is an antidote to the hopelessness that can arise in the face of climate change. Anxiety and depression naturally arise when we perceive we have no power over a situation. Doing something, such as documenting seasonal changes, is a way to restore a modicum of control and a sense of well-being.

To be sure, looking at plants in your backyard wont end the climate crisis. For that, we need major policy and lifestyle changes on a nearly global scale. The value of this form of personal action is in restoring our centers and engendering personal empowerment. This can serve as preparation for tackling the larger issues.

The practice of purposefully reconnecting with whats happening over the course of the year can take the form of journaling, posting observations of seasonal plant or animal status to social media, or making structured contributions to an established program such as Natures Notebook, a national program for documenting seasonal activity in plants and animals.

As a coordinator for the program, Ive been overjoyed to hear from participants that pausing briefly from their daily routines to report on their selected species has led to new discoveries and a deepened appreciation for these plants and animals. And as a Natures Notebook participant, Ive been delighted to witness green lynx spiders, crab spiders and sphinx moth larvae making their homes in the desert willow tree I observe in my backyard. I am certain I would not have noticed these lovely creatures had I not taken the time to briefly but regularly look at my trees leaf and flower status.

The brief moments of focus and connection I experience when Im taking my Natures Notebook observations contrast sharply with the anxiety I experience from exposure to climate crisis headlines. I invite you to join me in the simple routine of documenting the seasonal transitions in plants or animals in your yard. Trade some of your climate anxiety for the sense of calm and empowerment that can result from taking a small, positive action.

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Yara Shahidi Has the Best Beauty Resolution for 2020 – Vogue

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A universal truth: whether you give voice to them or not, a new year demands resolutions. When selecting said goals, a declaration that applies to personal empowerment is one worthy of a new decadea lesson we learned from Yara Shahidi. The actress and activist took to Instagram ahead of New Year's Eve to share a self-facing snap featuring oversize hoops, glossed lips, a mane of brushed-up curls, and a poignant caption. "We (My hair and I) are taking up more space as we enter 2020," wrote Shahidi, adding a duo of siren emojis to drive the statement home.

For her first act of big and bold beauty, Shadidi parted her natural hair to achieve a face-framing triangle of texture, the maneuver punctuated by roseate lips with a matching shade pressed into lids, black eyeliner rimmed along waterlines. Glow-y, unadorned skin and a frank expression teamed with her manewhich, true to her resolution, dominated the framefor a visual deserving of Shahidi's 2020 aspiration. Here's to expansion in all forms this year.

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Yara Shahidi Has the Best Beauty Resolution for 2020 - Vogue

A Healthy Relationship Starts With You! – Thrive Global

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Who has a healthy relationship all the time?

All relationships are the reflection of the two people in the relationship. They will as such reflect the health of the individuals moment to moment. This means that the health of a relationship can dramatically change based on how the two people are showing up in it.

What I have noticed is that people can become very judgmental of themselves and blame themselves as not being capable of being in a healthy relationship. They feel that their human frailties cause problems and prevent the experience of a healthy relationship.

Blame becomes the source of discouragement, and when any hopefulness arises about the possibility of a better relationship, this self-blame is then used to fuel self-improvement with the goal of having healthier relationships. This is a painful cycle that only reinforces feelings of inadequacy. It is possible to get off the hamster wheel of self-improvement and your relationships will be healthier when you do.

But how do you measure what a healthy relationship is?

For example, I have the experience of a heated conversation with one of my daughters. She is critical of me. I feel hurt. There is disagreement between us. We argue. I no longer want to participate in the conversation. She now feels hurt. The conversation ends. Later that day we have a lovely dinner out and really enjoy each others company. How does one evaluate the health of this relationship? Is it good or bad? Do we split the difference and say average?

Experience comes and goes. There is nothing fixed about my relationship with her or anyone else.

All relationship improvement is based on a faulty premise. The premise that there is something to out there to fix. We cant experience anything outside of ourselves.

Was I experiencing her?

No It was all me. My experience was coming from within me. I was not impacted by her. I was having a transient experience that reflected my level of understanding in that moment. It was coming from inside of me. From another state of consciousness, I would have felt and responded differently.

Why is this important?

It is everything. To know that experience appears and disappears within me and has no bearings on what is outside of me is the ultimate in freedom and authentic empowerment. By authentic empowerment I dont mean the personal empowerment of my ego, I mean the knowing of the infinite potential that resides within that is not part of the personal self that is beyond form. The more clearly I see that my experience is a passing and transitory and internally generated the more connected I feel to what is beyond that.

The health of my relationships is a reflection of how consciously I am connected to what is beyond my personal experience of thoughts and feelings. And that changes. Sometimes I am deeply caught up in the experience of being a separate identity flooded with feelings of personal hurt and fear. Other times I can experience deep levels of peace and not be consumed by my human thoughts and feelings. I am alway somewhere on that spectrum and my experience reflects that including my experience of my relationships.

So relationship health is never fixed, just like our physical health is never fixed. And the quality of our relationships does not require that we improve ourselves or fix our perceived frailties. Change does not come from that level. It comes from seeing beyond our personal self to who we are.

This is very practical.

If I have someone who shares with me that they struggle in relationships because they are co-dependent. They feel needy. They are uncomfortable being alone. They dont feel happy if their partner isnt happy. I can relate to this very human experience. However, this is nothing to pathologize. It is not a fixed problem. It is a transitory experience. It does not define you or the relationship.

If I had taken what happened with my daughter seriously, I would have been troubled by the experience. Instead, I knew it does not define me or her. I was okay with her having her emotional experience. I was also okay with the experience inside of myself. It comes. It goes. It is not who she is. It is not who I am.

I cut my knee. The cut comes and goes. It does not define me. I get a cold. It comes and goes. It is not who I am. I have an emotional experience of hurt and anger. It comes and goes. It is an experience. It is not who I am.

The same is true for all of the below traits of codependence. They are experiences that come and go. They do not mean anything about you. They are not who you are.

These are all experiences that come from inside of you. Seeing that is the place to start. This is the opposite of victim-blaming. It is victim-awakening. Waking up to the fact that you have experience, and that the experience is not you is freedom. I am asking you to look beyond your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to the deeper part of you that is beautiful beyond measure and powerful beyond belief. Psychology has failed us by only looking at what can be measured instead of remembering its root is in the Greek word psyche meaning soul. The impersonal energy behind life.

All of the above descriptions of experience are remedied by remembering who you are. I am not saying dont seek help or take medication if needed, but everything described above is the result of feeling separate from your true nature. Rather than trying to fix yourself or your relationship, what about looking within and listening to what you know to be true beyond your thoughts and beliefs about yourself. The natural wisdom that is pre-conditioning. As Kant would say, a priori knowledge. Listen deeply to your true self.

Nothing is required other than the willingness to sincerely look in that direction with an open mind. It requires the staying power to ride out the noise of the conditioned habitual thoughts that are like waves crashing on the shore, but listening more deeply does not disappoint. Your wisdom is your guide. It is your compass. No one has that Only you. No one can take it away from you, and no one knows better than you.

The health of your relationships will reflect how well you listen to your own deeper knowing. And it is okay for the health of your relationships to fluctuate just like the health of the human body fluctuates. We dont kill off our body because it gets a bad flu. A healthy relationship has room for all of you. It does not require perfection.

I am not saying that anything goes and you have to stay in any relationship. But if you are in a relationship or want to be in one, understand that the health of it comes from within. It is theoretically possible for one person to be in an amazing relationship full of love and understanding and the other person to be in a relationship of dysfunction. This doesnt usually happen because we tend to pick partners with the same level of understanding as us. But I do see this frequently when one person in a relationship shifts in consciousness and the other person doesnt. The person who has a deeper experience of who they are can feel love and compassion for their partner even if their partner is behaving badly. This is what happened with Angus and me. I had a shift in consciousness that allowed me to not take his angry behavior personally. That was enough to change the whole dynamic of our relationship and I went from feeling like a victim in it to realizing the love that was there between us.

Bottom line, if you are struggling in your relationship or if you feel that you dont have what it takes to be in a healthy relationship, forget about your relationship, your partner, and improving yourself. Instead, look within to who you are. Spend time getting to know your true nature. The peace and inner freedom that arises provides you with a new reference point for approaching love and relationships. It is a reference point grounded in reality rather than the subjectivity of experience. It allows you to be with your shifting experience and your partners experience with a foundation in wellbeing no matter what the human experience is serving up that day.

This is not about a perfect relationship. It is about you looking to who you are so you can enjoy yourself and your relationship more fully no matter what your experience is in the moment.

Your wisdom will never lead you astray. Your loving nature always has your best interest at heart. Trust your Self first and follow the lead of true nature.

Rohini Rossis passionate about helping people wake up to their full potential. She is a transformative coach, leadership consultant, a regular blogger for Thrive Global, and author of the short-readMarriage (The Soul-Centered Series Book 1)available on Amazon. You can get her free eBookRelationshipshere.Rohini has an international coaching and consulting practice based in Los Angeles helping individuals, couples, and professionals embrace all of who they are so they can experience greater levels of well-being, resiliency, and success. She is also the founder ofThe Soul-Centered Series: Psychology, Spirituality, and the Teachings of Sydney Banks.You can follow Rohini onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram, and watch herVlogswith her husband. To learn more about her work go to her website,rohiniross.com.

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