Joy

The bouddhists say :

"Laughter is the language of the gods"


Schopenhauer looked at humanity and wrote: "we live life with the attitude that everything is bad, and everyday it just gets worse and worse, until finally one day the very worst thing happens.....!!"

Bzzzz

I keep meeting people who tell me stories about BEES...

For example: how their dance according to the sun, or the number of beating with their wings in a second (up to 240!) tell other bees where to find productive plants.... Or that bees once upon a time were wasps!.....and how their society is efficient and economic and unbelievable complex... and of course how our planet cannot survive without them!

And by the way,



HERE is a VERY interesting interview about beekeeping!
..haha...

Re-wiring the brain

As I said below, age is not an obstacle to learning. The adult brain retains impressive powers of 'neuroplasticity' - the ability to change it's structure and function in response to new experience!

In neuroscience, research has now overthrown the prevailing dogma that adult human brain is immutable. It is proved that mental training has the power to change it's physical structure, and that emotions, moods and states of mind are trainable skills. Yes, the ability of mere thoughts can alter the physical structure and function of our brain, with the help of 'self-directed neuroplasticity'. Interesting, no?
Read THIS ARTICLE.

A Nonne "Tale"......

I haven't been very present on this page for a while, so perhaps about time to post a few lines...

Let me tell you how it is to work with "old sisters"... I was recently asked to do some Feldenkrais in an old peoples home for retreated nonnes! Some of them are 100 years old, but that is absolutely no obstacle to keep learning - and laughing !!

To help them feel their pelvis and spine (necessary for bending down or reaching up, of course...) I suggested that they imagined having a tale attached to their talebone, - a tale that could move up or downwards - like a dog when happy or sad.
THAT was VERY funny for them to imagine, some of them (especially Jeanne who is 101!) giggled so much that we almost couldn't finish the session...hahaha.... that's what nonne-humour is about.... They are wonderful!