Oh yeah, baby!! Soul Train “Ballero”

Do you want a glorious flashback to the funkalicious 70s?  Then this is DEFINITELY for YOU!! A must watch for anyone who LOVES LIFE!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPeXZw8PZbw

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse

Nobody kills an ignorant person who begs for wisdom. ~ African Proverb

Does your blog pass Chris Brogan’s Alltop test?

From the article Does your blog pass Chris Brogan’s Alltop test? How do you know if your blog headlines are effective? Find out how to use Alltop as a tool to measure the power of your blog against some of the best. Chris writes:

Swing by any page at Alltop and browse the titles other bloggers are using. Now, compare their titles to yours. Which would you click? Go back and look at the last 30 days of your blog. How many posts does that encompass? If someone only had the last 30 days of your blog to go on, what would they say about it? Continue reading

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde

Dreams Reflect Our Waking World

From a blog post titled “Dreams Reflect Our Waking World” by Kelly Bulkeley

Are dreams meaningful revelations of truth, or just deceptive gibberish? That is a question humans have been debating for thousands of years. Some of the earliest written documents from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India are texts on dream interpretation that provide instructions on how to separate the sense from the nonsense in dreaming. Most cultures through history have agreed that at least some dreams are genuinely meaningful and relevant to people’s lives.

Over the past century, Western psychologists have used new methods to study this age-old question, and their research has confirmed the basic meaningfulness of dreaming. Clinical psychotherapists from Sigmund Freud on have found that dreams bear strong relevance to people’s emotional concerns and personal conflicts. For example, psychotherapists have repeatedly found that if a client is going through a divorce, or suffering an illness, or experiencing a crisis situation at work, the client’s dreams are likely to provide informative, insightful reflections of his or her emotional situation in waking life. Continue reading