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Our on-board Pharmacy (Continued).
I want briefly to return in this further blog on “our on-board ‘pharmacy’”, to the terms “positive” and “negative”, (to which I made previous specific reference in blog, entitled “Accentuating the positive”, posted on Jan.26 2014). You may recall that … Continue reading
Our ‘on-board’ Pharmacy Store. (Cont’d from previous blog).
The historical rationale for all of this was based upon long-standing assumptions about human emotion, which so it was maintained, was centred in one locus of the brain. However – and increasingly – people began to ask interesting questions such … Continue reading
Our ‘on-board’ Pharmacy Store. (Cont’d from previous blog).
My aim here – pure and simple – is to further extend and expand upon this brief but – as experience has again and again led me to see – potentially useful discussion on what, in any account or consideration … Continue reading
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“Wheels within Wheels” Continued.
This brings us to another important question, as we attempt to assemble a mental picture and perspective of the origins and development (or evolvement) of our ‘on board’ coping resources and skills. That question – put at its simplest – … Continue reading
“Wheels within Wheels” iii (cont’d from previous blog).
Now it would not surprise me to learn that the overriding question uppermost in your mind as you read on, is simply this: interesting though, in its way, all of this may be, undoubtedly is to some; what possible relevance … Continue reading
“Wheels within Wheels” ii (cont’d from previous blog).
Perhaps sometimes, like me, you have taken a night flight to some intended destination. Once at 32,000 feet in the clear night sky, you look down on large cities, urban complexes, smaller towns, villages and even tiny hamlets. There are … Continue reading
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“Wheels within Wheels”. (cont’d from previous posting).
Imagine if you will, a smartly attired city gent (although only the remotest traces and ‘remnants’ of the once mandatory bowler hat and rolled umbrella now remain) who lives and works in that great metropolis of London town. He has … Continue reading
Change in a Changing World iii (cont’d from previous….)
Over many years now I have, again and again, come to appreciate the enabling power of such awareness. But more than that, I believe it is testament to the truth; namely that “facing, enduring and overcoming” or “coping” is precisely … Continue reading
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Change in a Changing World (ii). (Cont’d from previous blog).
The assertion made in the final sentence of the previous blog, may appear to run counter to the view that seemed to hold for a time, i.e. to the effect that the brain’s development is “genetically ‘hardwired’”. In one important … Continue reading
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Change in a Changing World. (i) (Cont’d from previous blog).
The human brain then has – has had to – become a ‘past master’ of change, ever developing, then refining and perfecting its inestimable ability and capacity to recognize, accommodate and adapt to widely different, what we might call “life … Continue reading
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