''I'm NOT a bum. I'm a human being...''
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Saturday, September 5, 2015
A LESSON FOR DR. VICTORIA SWEET
A
LESSON FOR
DR.
VICTORIA SWEET
and
US ALL
---Having
gotten used to the physical appearance of Miss Tod, and after
exchanging pleasantries...Dr. Sweet looked at Miss Tod and asked if
there was anything that she could do for her?
She
expected euthanasia, some sort of miracle cure, stronger pain
medication or even a second opinion. With all the poise and
equanimity Miss Tod asked if there was something Dr. Sweet could do
about her food being so bland and a pair of eyeglasses. Dr. Sweet
mentions being floored by the response. She helped her with those
things. Miss Tod changed wards and lived another 18 months.
---What
Dr. Sweet learned that day was priceless from my perspective. From
Miss Tod's attitude she
learned that ''somehow she accepted her fate, and it was
the small things, the little daily things, that were important to
her.'' Dr. Sweet goes on to
speak of bravery at
the core.
---She
then mentioned something that floored me. Admitting that many young
doctors are very healthy, curious, hardworking, etc. What do they
know of misfortune? And, even when there is no cancer to deal with,
the patient still has his needs and preferences. Reread the section
about Miss Tod if you've forgotten the story. As I said it's page 29
in my book and lasts about two pages. It is a good lesson for all of
us. Be Well.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
Monday, August 31, 2015
WELLNESS FOR THE HEART!
---Witness an act of kindness and be aware of how it makes you feel. There a very good chance that you are experiencing a moral elevation after watching a video such as this. This ties in with posting below.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
WITNESSING ACTS OF KINDNESS
2015 8:00 a.m.
What Happens in Your Brain and Body When You Witness Human Kindness
By Melissa Dahl!
---It is just plain nice to witness those rare moments when people show real kindness to each other, and psychologists have a phrase for that: It's called moral elevation, that warm-and-fuzzy feeling you get from simply witnessing compassion. Scientists know that moral elevation tends to nudge people toward behaving more altruistically themselves, and now some new research has helped explain this effect by recording what happens inside the brain and body when we see a little bit of niceness occur.
---In a post for the Greater Good Science Center's website, writer Jill Suttie explains the study's findings. The researchers, led by Walter Piper at New York University, showed study participants either a film clip in which someone took care of someone else after an incidence of suffering, or one that was just supposed to be funny. They recorded the participants' heart rate in order to get an idea of what their sympathetic nervous system (which promotes arousal, known colloquially as the "fight or flight" system) was doing, and also measured the activity level of the parasympathetic nervous system (which promotes rest, including slowing of the heart rate).
---They observed increased activity in both systems when the participants viewed the moral-elevation videos, but the funny clip didn't activate either nervous system. Suttie explains what this might mean:
Dual activation of the PNS and SNS occurs in situations that involve attending to others in a prosocial way while also needing to stay alert and aroused, such as during parenting and sexual activity. Moral elevation must involve a similar pattern, which makes some sense: To see a compassionate act, we must witness suffering, and that’s stressful [and activates the SNS]. However, once we see the suffering alleviated through an altruistic act, it calms our heart (through the PNS), allowing us to get past the stress and give us that pleasant, warm glow feeling. This feeling is probably what calms our hearts enough to give us the motivation to “pay it forward” by acting altruistically in the future.
---In other words, scientists are a step closer to understanding why — on a physiological level — niceness can be contagious.
What Happens in Your Brain and Body When You Witness Human Kindness
---It is just plain nice to witness those rare moments when people show real kindness to each other, and psychologists have a phrase for that: It's called moral elevation, that warm-and-fuzzy feeling you get from simply witnessing compassion. Scientists know that moral elevation tends to nudge people toward behaving more altruistically themselves, and now some new research has helped explain this effect by recording what happens inside the brain and body when we see a little bit of niceness occur.
---In a post for the Greater Good Science Center's website, writer Jill Suttie explains the study's findings. The researchers, led by Walter Piper at New York University, showed study participants either a film clip in which someone took care of someone else after an incidence of suffering, or one that was just supposed to be funny. They recorded the participants' heart rate in order to get an idea of what their sympathetic nervous system (which promotes arousal, known colloquially as the "fight or flight" system) was doing, and also measured the activity level of the parasympathetic nervous system (which promotes rest, including slowing of the heart rate).
---They observed increased activity in both systems when the participants viewed the moral-elevation videos, but the funny clip didn't activate either nervous system. Suttie explains what this might mean:
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