Organic learning is essential. It can also be therapeutic in essence. It is healthier to learn than to be a patient or even cured. Life is a process not a thing. And, processes go well if there are many ways to influence them. We need more ways to do what we want than the one we know – even it is is a good one in itself. ‘Moshe Feldenkrais’
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Season for Peace and Nonviolence – Teens Daily Value Practice for Week of March 19th
64 Ways in 64 Days – 15th Gandhi, King, Chavez Season for Peace and Nonviolence
Week eight, Days 50 to 56: Nonviolence challenges us to stand for Truth and take action that honors every human being.
- Day 50 – CHOICE (March 20)
You have the option to choose a path of violence or nonviolence. We are always at choice in our lives. Today, choose nonviolence.
- Day 51 – ADVOCACY (March 21)
“Every action for peace requires someone to exhibit the courage to challenge violence and inspire love,” said Buddhist teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. How can you advocate for a better world today?
- Day 52 – EQUALITY (March 22)
“Unity among every living thing.” Today, try to view everyone through loving, non-judgmental eyes. See them as though they are your own brothers and sisters.
- Day 53 – ACTION (March 23)
“Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Gandhi. Today, you have the choice between positive and negative action. Choose the most positive actions for the universe.
- Day 54 – GIVING (March 24)
Giving and receiving go hand in hand. The more you give, the more you receive. Practice giving with no thought of return. Notice how people who never give to others, never receive from others. When you shut down your ability to give, you also shut down your ability to receive. Practice this and notice how your life changes for the better. Give of your time, your energy, your material possessions, or just give love and support.
- Day 55 – RESPONSIBILITY (March 25)
Take responsibility for your actions today. The quality of our world depends on you. What can you do today to better the world or even just your own environment? Think of ways you can be more responsible for helping your community, family, or your friends.
- Day 56 – SELF-SUFFICIENCY (March 26)
Think about what you want to do for a living. What do you want your life to look like? What do you want to have? How do you want to feel? What steps do you need to take to get to your goals? How can you become self-sufficient?
Created for www.agnt.org and Season for Nonviolence – 2007 by Greater Dallas Task Force – www.64-days.org
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‘Moshe’ on disconnect of self
My way of looking at the mind and the body, if you want to understand it is to help make that structure of the entire human being to be well-integrated, functionally well-integrated. To make that change you have to rewire the mind in a special way. The way we do things now is completely futile. It makes everybody alienated from themselves. Moshe Feldenkrias
‘Moshe’ on motivating free choice
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patters of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. Moshe Feldenkrais
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Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching on Violence
The very softest thing of all
can ride like a galloping horse through the hardest of things.Like water, like water pe”netrating rock.
And so the invisible enters in.That is why I know it is wise to act by doing nothing.
And how few, how very few understand this.People teach in the world what I know to be true:
if you live violently, that is how you will die.”
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
‘Moshe’ on being vulnerable
Most people spend their whole lives using their strengths to cover up and hide their weaknesses said Feldenkrais. But if you surrender to your weakness theirein lies your pathway to genius.
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