We continue taking a Quebec view of COVID based on a lengthy article in the monthly Quebec magazine “L’actualité (December edition). The number of insomniacs has increased in the past few months notes Charles Morin the chair of research of Canada into sleep troubles who is also a professor at the University of Laval inContinue reading “Your Sleep and COVID”
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Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Heart with The Life of a Buddha”; Importance of the Pause
Tara Brach, psychotherapist and meditation teacher tells us in her book the importance of a pause. “Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving towards any goal.” “A pause is, by nature,Continue reading “Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Heart with The Life of a Buddha”; Importance of the Pause”
COVID Poetry Corner: “Stuck in a Perpetual Lockdown”
Stuck in a Perpetual Lockdown It would seem with half baked theories you politico medico eliteare trying to keep me from being in a hospital gown in some sort of totalitarianism spite At times your deference to shaky theories has me puzzled beyond beliefcausing millions grief Can we digress to biblical times and look forContinue reading “COVID Poetry Corner: “Stuck in a Perpetual Lockdown””
Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with The Heart of a Buddha”
Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with The Heart of a Buddha” Tara Brach is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher. “As we lean into the experience of the moment-releasing our stories and gently holding our pain or desire-Radical Acceptance begins to unfold. The two parts of genuine acceptance-seeing clearly and holding our experience withContinue reading “Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with The Heart of a Buddha””
Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance”
In her book “Radical Acceptance: Embracing your Heart With the Life Of a Buddha” this psychotherapist and meditation teacher attempts to define what Radical Acceptance is; “The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our life, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment to moment experience. By acceptingContinue reading “Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance””
Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Heart With the Life of a Buddha”
Tara Brach has described many of us being under a trance of unworthiness so over the years we develop a particular blend of strategies designed to compensate us for feeling so unworthy. What are these strategies? 1. embarking on one self-improvement project, one after the other 2. holding back and play it safe rather thanContinue reading “Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Heart With the Life of a Buddha””
10 Mental Health Tips for Dealing With COVID-19 (and all those other bloody variations)
I had posted a couple of articles previously about what the mental health experts are saying in the Province of Quebec. These posts were based on summarization and quotes from the December edition of Quebec’s L’actualité magazine. Their 10 mental health tips are; AVOID THOUGHTS THAT ARE HARMFUL OR EXXAGERATIONS OF CASTROPHE: Remember that thisContinue reading “10 Mental Health Tips for Dealing With COVID-19 (and all those other bloody variations)”
Israel National News Reports “Vaccine Troubles” in Israel
Helsinki Committee to declare Pfizer performing unauthorized human experiment in Israel Committee in charge of supervising human trials expected to state vaccine campaign is clinical study and needed pre-approval. Tags:ExperimentVaccineHuman RightsCoronavirusMordechai Sones , Jan 18 , 2021 4:14 PMPfizer vaccine campaignFlash 90 Calcalist reports the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is expected to announce that Pfizer isContinue reading “Israel National News Reports “Vaccine Troubles” in Israel”
Fierce Pharma Show There is Gold in Them Thar Hills in COVID Vaccine Gold Rush
First-to-market Pfizer expects a whopping $15B from its COVID-19 shot in 2021 by Eric Sagonowsky | Feb 2, 2021 11:54am Pfizer laid out its 2021 financial expectations on Tuesday.(Tracy Staton)ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailPrint More and more COVID-19 vaccines are nearing the market, but mRNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna are still working off a head start in the global rollout. Now,Continue reading “Fierce Pharma Show There is Gold in Them Thar Hills in COVID Vaccine Gold Rush”
COVID-19 and Mental Health: What are they saying in Quebec?
The Quebec Magazine L’actualité had as its feature in the December edition “Comment Aller Mieux: Conseils d’experts Pour tenir le coup durant cette 77^^%%@@ pandémie” meaning “How to feel better: expert advice in coping with a difficult situation during this (expletive) pandemic”. Part of the article dealt how are the guys doing? Phillipe Roy aContinue reading “COVID-19 and Mental Health: What are they saying in Quebec?”
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