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Our socioeconomic problems are the symptoms of the broken relationship between people
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Nature, Economy, Education, Connection, Society

Question from the Internet:

“Can any societal problems be converted to economical problems? Can you give examples to prove your point?”

The economy, society is like external signs, symptoms of the relationships, the attitude between people.

Thus problems with Human relationships, appear as social or economic problems.

The present global socioeconomic crisis for example is a sign of how broken, unsustainable the present Human relationship is between people and nations.

We are trying to live, survive at the expense of each other in a self-serving, self-justifying, egotistic manner, while Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent system demands from us the opposite, collective, mutually responsible and mutually complementing connections, cooperation.

So, if we use the socioeconomic problems wisely, diagnosing the root cause — the broken connections between people due to our inherent ego separating, rejecting us from each other — then we could treat, heal that root cause and rebuild Human society and our economic system on different values, principles, foundations — following Nature’s perfectly balanced, integral template.
Christmas afternoon 2020
By: Gordie Jackson
Tags: Quaker, Meeting For Worship, Christmas Day, Connection, England

Photo by Thor Alvis on Unsplash

I am sitting in the meeting house. There are four of us and another 8 or 9 on zoom.

I am doing what I do in Quaker meetings I am allowing thoughts to come and go. Holding them briefly as if a shell I have picked from the beach. It is a shorter meeting as it is Christmas day. Quakers don’t regard Christmas day as any more special yet here we find ourselves.

I am thinking, “What has brought us here?” We clearly get something from being here. Is it that we want to see certain people? That may be part of it but my own sense is that somehow we create a space where the divine feels closer. Jesus did say, “Where two or three meet there I am in the midst of you.” So where is he when I am alone? I believe he is present but perhaps I am not so aware as I become when another or more is present.

There is something about connecting to others that aids us in connecting to God, that is why I am here.

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Zoomas
By: Danial Naqvi
Tags: Zoom, Globe, Christmas, Family, Connection

2020 can be described as the peak of Zoom.

Zoom the company, not the action.

Christmas Day was no different.

Today was a lot of fun.

Time to spend with family across the globe.

A year not to be forgotten in a flash.

Zoomas
Great points, Peter!
By: Hapsari Listya
Tags: Self Improvement, Self, Connection, Growth, Self-awareness

Great points, Peter!

I like how you mentioned all of these emotions and explained why it’s essential for our life. Such as important reminders to experience our feelings and not running from them. Even it seems like negative feelings, all of them are happen because we are human, right? :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Peter. All the best!
We can build the perfect Human society where everybody finds their most optimal “cogwheel role”
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Education, Connection, Integration, Society

Question from the Internet:

“Isn’t specialization in a society designed so that we each don’t have to research, test, define, and fix everything ourselves? Doesn’t this eliminate the need for self-reliance for literally everything? Isn’t that progress and a good thing?”

You are on the right track.

The perfect Human society is built on a unique, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing connection network between people. It is built in such a way, where each and every individual can find their most optimal “cogwheel role” in society, mutually contributing to the wellbeing of society with 100% of their abilities, talents, while receiving justly, fully, whatever they need for fulfilling that cogwheel role according to their abilities and conditions.

At this stage, this sounds like a utopia, as we have no idea about our own abilities, talents, we do not know our predetermined, most optimal cogwheel role in Nature’s system. Moreover driven by our inherently egocentric, self-serving, self-justifying nature — that wants to raise the self above everybody else — we do not want to share anything, but want to grab everything only for ourselves.

This is why — as Humanity is desperately sinking into an unsolvable global crisis — we need a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method that can help us find and fulfill our special, irreplaceable role in Human society and the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2DpkkxkfU&t=4s
You Are Not Alone
By: Dr. Ehssan Sakhaee
Tags: Solitude, Connection, Divine Presence

“Flowers in the Field” by ihave3kids is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

You might not have anyone to talk to

but you can connect with yourself

or a small plant or tree.

You may be alone

but with yourself

rather than by yourself.

You choose to make this present moment into your friend, not your enemy.

Feel the Divine presence within you

inside your own chest

and inside everything that you see around you.

You are not alone.

Happy holidays.
What does it mean to be selfish?
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Selfish, Ego, Relationships, Education, Connection

Question from the Internet:

“Am I selfish for having 3 gadgets (phone, tablet, and computer)?”

If that makes you selfish, I really do not know what I would need to call myself as I am a hoarder of gadgets, phones, tablets…

Fortunately the notions of “being selfish”, “being egotist” are used specifically to the quality of our Human interconnections. At least this is how unique, empirical, Natural scientists — who have been studying Human nature for millennia — explain.

They say, that as long as we do not intentionally harm others, as long as we try building positive, mutually responsible, mutually complementing interconnections with others — according to our conditions, abilities — it does not matter what possessions, habits we have, what our external appearance is, what we eat, where we live, what our profession is.

Since true, Human life is the circulation, mutual communication that unfolds within purposefully built and maintained Human relationships — which unfortunately not many people remember in our times — all our focus should be oriented at building and maintaining the best possible interconnections between us — above and against everything that tries to separate reject us from one another.
Write a Heartfelt Thank-you Note Before the End of 2020
By: Meg Panozzo
Tags: Gratitude, Relationships, Connection, Leadership

If you’re looking for a way to bring a sparkle of positivity to both your own world and someone else’s at the end of this difficult year, you could write a thank you note.

We’ve been talking about gratitude a lot recently, and how powerful it is to jot down a few things we’re grateful for. But what about who we’re grateful for? At the end of this year, a lovely, simple gift to someone could be to share as openly as you can your appreciation for something they have done for you.

Just last week, I realised that although I say “thank you” in passing, or an off-hand “oh, you’ve saved my life, thank you”, I hadn’t taken the time to explain to a colleague of mine exactly how much he had helped me, and how I appreciated it. So on a Sunday afternoon, I wrote him an email explaining how I had been challenged this year, and how he had helped me.

It was a more open, honest and vulnerable email than a standard thank-you at the end of an email. But it was (I hope) more meaningful. I had to make it meaningful, otherwise it would be the same as any of my passing “thank yous” that I say every day.

Who has impacted your world this year? Who has helped you through a challenging time?

Share with this person your gratitude for how they have supported you, changed you, or helped you grow. Sometimes we don’t know how our actions affect someone else, or that our help was more impactful or appreciated than we expect. Imagine receiving a thank-you note, and how much it would mean to you. Imagine how it would feel to know the time, effort and energy you put in was worthwhile.

Many people help because they know it is the right thing to do, or maybe they don’t think anything of it. This person could be your dad, a colleague, an assistant, employee or a mentor. And it’s not just a thank you, it’s building a connection with someone and showing them that you truly care.

After an especially challenging year, full of change, disruption, uncertainty and all other kinds of negative things, a thank you note could be a genuinely impactful, positive gift to both you and the person you’re thanking.
The New Rules
By: Max Revlin
Tags: Experiment, Social Media, Media Ecology, Connection, Shamanism

The rules of the digital public square are changing so fast. By the time the “experts” write their white papers about what works and what doesn’t work, it’s too late; the new rules are already outdated.

This is a time of radical experimentation. After my first experimental post under this pseudonymous account, I attracted two followers — Web Mason and Quy Ma. (I welcome both of you to my experiment!)

I don’t think of this outcome as either modest or impressive. It is what it is: a way of expanding my reach beyond what I used to call the “audience of one”.

So many writers and publishers seem obsessed with metrics. They equate success with growth.

I started this account with no expectations. Whether I end the year with two followers or 2,000, the meaning of this experiment will not be determined by this metric.

Much more important than the metrics is the quality of resonances I develop with the Medium community and the broader media ecology.

After looking at the work of my first two followers, I see several points of connection — synapses, if you will.

Quy brings a market researcher’s sensibility to Medium and curiosity about the emerging rules of the new media ecology. He is prolific and unafraid to tackle concerns ranging from the mundane (e.g., retirement) to the transcendent (e.g., what to be after death). He is also passionate about mental health advocacy.

With Web, I share an interest in non-duality, Shamanism, depth psychology and the threat of reductionist approaches to psychiatric diagnosis.

These are all synapses worth developing.
True love in the perfect family
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Family, Connection, Love, Society

Question from the Internet:

“What are the basic factors to focus on for developing a good environment at home?”

A good environment is based on positive, mutually responsible, mutually complementing relationships between people.

This is as true to greater society as it is true for a family.

At least in a family we get a kickstart by the natural love, connection that exists between family members. But this natural, instinctive love, connection is not enough.

We have to build “true love" which is based on mutual concessions, considering the desires, needs, viewpoints of the others as important as our own.

Then by fulfilling the desires, needs of the others as if they were our own needs, desires, we can create a constant, positive, mutual flow of care, service and love between the members of the family that glues people truly together above any problems, misunderstandings.

Then with the help of this “mutual guarantee" they can use even the problems, crisis situations as positive fuel to grow, strengthen the connection, life-force of the family even more.

Then when we can stabilize the family — as founding block of society — this way, we can rebuild the wider, greater society based on the same principles.

https://youtu.be/tKpbdv4DUls
How to Promote your Business on Bixex
By: Victoria Lazarus
Tags: Technology, Bixex, Grow, Connection, Business

The aim of all business owners, whether small or big business, is to continually grow and expand their business. Advancement in technology has made this so easy that as your online visibility grows, your business also grows. If you are a business owner and you have created a Bixex account, below are the steps to promote your business on Bixex.

Sign in to your Bixex account.

Navigate to your picture on the right side of the home page. Click on it

On the options that pop up below the picture, click on your business.

Next click share . You can share your business on the Bixex wall, using the same method you use in sharing a post or article. Ensure to click on the public option before posting.

. You can share your business on the Bixex wall, using the same method you use in sharing a post or article. Ensure to click on the option before posting. If you want to share your business both on the Bixex wall and on your social media page, click on any of the social media platforms you want to share it on and click share. Your business would be available both on Bixex wall and on your social media platform.

Anyone seeing this can easily reach out to you or refer your business to others. This way, people become aware of your business and reach out to you whenever they need your services or products.
Letting Go
By: Never Sugarcoated
Tags: Poetry, Vulnerability, Relationships, Connection, Love

Letting Go

Photo by Three-shots from Pexels | Edited by Never Sugarcoated

Drip onto my skin.

Let go of the day,

of the anxious waiting,

for the other shoe

to drop.

I want to make you feel

like nothing else

exists at all,

nothing

but the

flushed glow

of my softness,

enveloping

you whole.

Ease inside my soul,

a warm and tender dance.

Don’t let

your mind

wander

any further

than

your hands.

You’re safe within

the depths of my

desire to

unfold you.

Let me drink you in.

Because when you do,

I am

free,

too.

There is nothing sweeter

than the taste of you,

letting go.
I Write From My Heart So I Can Connect With Yours
By: Art Bram
Tags: Life Lessons, Personal Development, Life, Connection, Writing

I Write From My Heart So I Can Connect With Yours

photo by author

My nose isn’t that big in person. Just saying.

Moving on …

I treasure authentic connection. That’s why I read and write on Medium. I’m not interested in finding out “The Top 5 Android Apps of 2020” or the top 5 anything for that matter. If I was, I simply would google it and save the $50 per year Medium subscription cost.

When I read articles, I’m looking for an authentic voice. The more authentic your voice is, the more interested I am in what you have to say and the more I benefit from your words. Because I feel your presence, your heart, your caring. That motivates me.

I write authentically. Which translates to writing from my heart. I’ll never win a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing. Fortunately, that’s not my intent. I’m happy I write well enough to get my message across in an authentic caring way.
Pieces of God
Tags: Connection, God, Channeling, Divinity

We are no more separated from God than the cells in our body are separated from us. In the same way that our cells are merely smaller components of our bodies, we humans are components of the Living Universe.

The difference between us and God is that we are small, and can therefore have smaller and more specific experiences. Divinity is all-encompassing, and the larger you are, the less nuanced your experiences become.

In the largest of our form we experience all things at once. In the next largest, we experience Duality: the ability to experience both Light and Dark.

As we break apart smaller and smaller, we embody even smaller fractals of energies, until we are something as unique and wonderful as ourselves — the little beings splintered off of the organism we call Mother Earth.

When we talk to “higher” energies, we are just reaching up the hierarchy to more and more connected beings. Our higher self is not a part of us — it is all that we are.

A ray of blue light might be only one part of Pure White Light, but the blue light knows nothing except for its purity. The blue light comes from the White Light. It is the White Light, in a more refined and differentiated form.

We are this blue light, and when we remember our innate purity we remember our connection to God. There is no more seeking that needs to be done. We are home when we can realize that we have been home all along.
Providing true happiness to ourselves and others
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Happiness, Contentment, Education, Connection

Question from the Internet:

“How can I provide sustainable happiness to as many people as possible (including myself)?”

In order to provide true, sustainable happiness to ourselves and others, first we need to understand what true happiness is.

It is not the usual individual joy we are brought up to chase. True happiness is a result of positive, mutually responsible, mutually supportive and mutually complementing Human connections.

As in Nature contentment means balance, homeostasis with the environment, we also can’t be happy without reaching balance and homeostasis with our surrounding environment which is within the relationship to other people.

True happiness unfolds when we start relating to each other with “true love" — which is the totally selfless, unconditional fullfilment of the needs, desires of others without any instinctive selfish, subjective calculations.

https://youtu.be/AbehPJPuRVM
Opening the Heart
By: Veda Prajvalan
Tags: Beauty, Opening The Heart, Heart Chakra, Love, Connection

There are so many beautiful choices to assist opening the heart. And of special significance, those spontaneous openings from what feels like an alchemical reaction. They come as nourishment, like nitrogen to a forest floor. This sensation most often occurs for me in nature or with certain people, sounds or crystals. Other assists I enjoy are meditations, scents, visuals, mudras and various deities.
We have to make “love of others” our priority above the instinctive “self-love”
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Education, Connection, Love, Society

An opinion from the Internet about Humanity:

“You know we actually agree, that as a group of people, as Humanity we need to act differently than we’re currently acting.

I believe our original motivation is the love of the group, while you believe that our primary motivation is the love of ourselves.”

I also think we do agree. Our purpose — and the solution for all the problems — is to reach the state many wisdoms, religions, teachings symbolically describe as “love your neighbor as yourself”.

The problem is — as this principle itself acknowledges — that we are born inclined to love ourselves first. And especially since we evolved into a fully integrated, interdependent world this “inherent self-love” makes us inevitably causing harm, as whatever we take excessively, we take it from others.

You are right that “love of others, serving the collective” is also programmed in us, but at this stage — at least for the majority of the people — it is suppressed, overridden by our tendency to “love ourselves at the expense of others”.

This is why we cannot form sustainable, working, true, positive, constructive interconnections, cooperation, without which there is no chance of solving collective, global problems.

The pandemic has proved it the most sharply. Each individual, nation is only for their own, even for medication we compete, and want to “cure” ourselves at the expense of others, the whole pandemic and the race for the vaccine has become political and of course, a profit-generating exercise.

This is the reason we are on track to exterminate ourselves as you are predicting. And this is why the only solution is to relearn how to make being collective, social creatures our primary focus, above and against the egotistic tendencies.
The Goal Isn’t Ecstasy
By: Vivian-Raquel Dayan
Tags: Nightmare, Coffee, Relationships, Self, Connection

The Goal Isn’t Ecstasy

If a dream is a wish your heart makes, then a nightmare is based on fears. No one likes what doesn’t feel good. And if you’re not feeling good who will want you? The goal isn’t ecstasy, but it’s a healthy bond with self. The bond blocks anyone else from treating you any way less than you’d treat yourself.

I had a nightmare. I was stuck. I couldn’t get out of your arms. The more I struggled, the tighter the pull. I looked up into your eyes and you told me that everything was okay, but I could feel, deep, deep down, that I was not okay. I knew resisting wouldn’t get me anywhere, because I tried that, and I also knew that staying would keep me there forever. Unhappy with you was no place for me. When I opened my mouth, and the words came out, you set me free. Not knowing where to go next, I let the world move me.

I woke up and you weren’t here. The different memories of when you were flashed before my eyes, and I didn’t feel sad or bad or lonely. I didn’t feel the restriction of your pull or stuck in a made-up world. I got out of bed, put on my slippers and poured a cup of coffee.
Instinctive Human action is guided, driven by inherent “self-love”
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Survival, Crisis, Self, Connection, Love

Question from the Internet:

“What guides human action?”

By default, Human action is guided, driven by instinctive “self-love”.

All our thoughts, desires, intentions, and actions are centered around the self. With our inherently egocentric, subjective perception we feel ourselves in the center of the Universe, consciously, unconsciously expecting the whole system to serve us.

Even religious people when they pray, they lament their own sad, bad, intolerable state and expect an omnipotent, higher force to solve their problems and make their situation better.

And as we gradually evolved into a fully integrated, interdependent world — which is an evolutionary necessity in Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent system — our instinctive “self-love” makes us behave, exist like cancer.

The only way to escape a seemingly inevitable cancerous self-destruction on a global scale is learning how to “love others” according to the ancient, archaic and symbolic principle of “love your neighbor as yourself”. This is actually neither religious, nor mystical but this principle describes how diverse, seemingly incompatible elements of a closed, living natural system — like Humanity — can survive, and optimally develop.
Long
By: Heidi Zuckerman
Tags: Art, Life, Wisdom, Connection, Love

Long

A friend of mine whose kids are around the same age as mine was celebrating some of their birthdays yesterday and said, the days are long but the years are short. While other people may know this too, this is certainly a truism of parenthood. At a point which simultaneously feels like both yesterday as well as a lifetime ago, and my kids were very young, I promised myself that I would never just try to get through the day, to wish for the day to end. I committed that I would be present in every moment of my day (and my life), regardless of what was happening and whether whatever it was was good, bad, painful, embarrassing, ugly, exhilarating, shameful, whatever. I always knew that time is fleeting and that the years are short. I have wanted to sit in the space of all the moments so I wouldn’t miss them — in that time or later while looking back. I couldn’t do it every single day, but I can only remember a few where I surrendered and just went to sleep early. And the best part about it is that the next day I got to get up and try again. Just like today.

When Walter De Maria created the Lightning Field, a seminal work of land art, he proclaimed that, “the invisible is real.” One of the most powerful aspects of this work, which I have been so blessed to be able to experience in person, is that it is successful regardless of whether you ever see it actually activated. The knowing behind this possibility provides insight into the effectiveness of being present and acknowledging time.
The Dolphin Chooses You
By: Gaston King
Tags: Oceans, Poetry, Animals, Dolphins, Connection

Photo credit to Julie Hart

A serenity of salt surrounds our work with a mystic veil

Cool mornings, brash breaths forcing our faces to endure and enjoy the ocean.

Marine mammals begin their days floating, flopping and flapping for attention.

Numerous beings share numerous habitats, exploring, accelerating, and socializing.

Only three beautiful bouncing baby boys exist to push their mothers around.

Solely driven on topping one another for chaotic behaviors and toxic tendencies.

I walk alongside the poetic pools educating our guests, who is to approach me on my symbolic symmetry other than you?

‘Oli, the trying troublemaker others prefer to not deal with. A curious look of kindness envelopes his face.

“And here is my friend ‘Oli, go ahead and say hi ‘Oli!”

A moving manipulation of air sacks responds through squeaking whomping whistles.

He hears me as I hear him.

“He’s one of our three-year-old, male, Atlantic bottlenose dolphins! ‘Oli’s one of our troublemakers when it comes to behaving however he’s also my favorite. But don’t tell the other dolphins that!”

We continue onward as a multitude of mothers snap a memory of you.

We diverge into the past, focused on training and working with the animals we love.

The fallen tour saved from the clutches of overbooking. Walking the kicking children back to the guest’s viewing side.

Once relieved I begin to report back to the office, but not before stopping by and thanking him.

His usual habitat, right outside my office window.

Consistently poking at my ability to focus with an unending sound of creaking doors.

I stand there and recall our first meeting. An out of water experience I will continue to hold dear.

Just a few miniaturized minutes playfully throwing, catching, fetching and feeding.

I pity those who fear developing bonds with animals. One of my most spiritually enriching experiences to this day.

But not nearly as important as our first in-water encounter. The gracious opportunity to meet under parental supervision.

Your mother Lily close at hand ensuring your safety. As I walked forward with my mother present to thank you for your love.

Photo credit to Nicole Couceiro

In my mind, we shall remain connected.

We share a film together, showcasing your misbehaving as well as my lack of training ability.

Proving our time on this earth limited, but our performance will live on.

You and your brothers may continue to grow in my absence, but I know you are destined for greatness.

I graciously accept the opportunity to say good bye. These trying times hold no career for me anymore.

We exchange similar looks of remembrance, recalling previous still frames smiling together.

Our misty morning greetings, to our afternoon waves good night.

I stand from the previous kneeling position to watch you take a bow.

One last time.

You’ve grown so much in the years I’ve watched you.

I wish you well on your journey, and if I’m lucky,

Maybe we’ll share another magical moment.

All my love ‘Oli

Photo credit to Alyssa Arrizola

© Gaston King, all rights reserved.
What Is Sanity In An Insane World?
Tags: Spirituality, Health, Intuition, Connection, Love

Let’s start with insanity.

Insanity is the by-product of insurmountable individual and collective suffering. It results in racial injustices, mass shootings, and wars, all of which continue to be on the rise. My question then is two fold, how did we get here, and how do we get back?

Well, we got here by trying to materialize our very existence. We added labels, both to ourselves and to others. We judged, criticized and created biases against our own people. With all of these new rules and regulations, of course, we had no choice but to conform — anything for human connection.

This ultimately created suffering, both individually and collectively. By trying to conform, we left out so much of what makes us human, and we actually taught ourselves to abandon ourselves.

But that’s the thing, we taught ourselves to do this, and we can teach ourselves to unlearn that, too.

Sanity is the opposite of suffering. It is omnipresent love, and it is filled with the desire for human connection. We came into this world sane, because we were only capable of love and connection.

So, how do we get back to sanity? I’m not sure I have the answers, but what I do know is that the only sane there is, is love — everything else is completely, and utterly insane.
Heart of Morning
By: Caelan Rowan Mccuen
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Nature, Inspiration, Poetry, Connection

Your heart is the morning

a beautiful mist

dappled in sunlight

each touch is a kiss

Your thought in the weather

of tremulous heart

is song like a child’s

I’m taken apart

Ah land ever lovely

I sing at your thought

in your lull I will listen

breathe never for naught
ENVY
By: Staffan Carle
Tags: Envy, Connection, Human Behavior

I envy all kinds of people and stuff, all kinds of treats and possessions, whatever it is that I don’t have but they have, I envy kids, colleagues, even animals, but most of all I envy their Connection.
Not My Key
By: Chantelle Dawn Skye
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Connection, Love, Self Love

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I am wanting more than you could ever give me

So I’m turning it into love for me

In silent reverence of the goddess that I seek

I have been brought to my knees

From the Earth has come my heart, with a profound longing

This love I bring is not a soft wind blowing

For the conscious in connection that I seek

You are not my key

This messy imperfect heart

She beats for me

I choose, I choose, I choose

This Queen

Every day

This heart of mine is not fair game, go play that elsewhere

So I’m becoming all the love for me

This is building all the boundaries that I seek

I am home with me

In the mirror I can see the magnificence

This love I bring is not a gentle swirling eddy

In silent reverence of the goddess that I seek

I am no longer blind

This messy imperfect heart

She beats for me

I choose, I choose, I choose

This Queen

Every day

This messy imperfect heart

She beats for me

This is all so bittersweet

As you are not my key

So, I choose, I choose, I choose

This Queen

Every day

Chantelle Dawn Skye ©

18th December 2020
Great points and email!
By: Dr. Marina Harris
Tags: Marketing, Psychology, Mental Health, Relationships, Connection

Great points and email! It’s such a great depiction of how relational humans are — when we use that to our advantage, everybody benefits.
How to Set a RusVPN Connection in Your Windows System?
Tags: Rusvpn, System, Connection, Windows

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How to Turn Jealousy Into Deep Trust
By: Veronica Kaulinis
Tags: Vulnerability, Trust, Relationships, Connection, Jealousy

Are you afraid of owning your jealousy and insecurities in relationships?

Jealousy could either destroy a relationship or bring you closer together and build deep trust.

What is Jealousy?

Jealousy is an emotion that we’re all familiar with. It’s a natural trigger response to our brain that’s from a threat. Most people repress it and avoid rather than feel it.

What people don’t often realize is that jealousy is actually deep portal into vulnerability. It’s an opportunity for connection and ownership. When you have the courage to honestly share about your insecurities there will actually be more spaciousness for love.

Does Feeling Jealousy & Imperfect Make You Unloveable?

No. In fact, embracing your imperfections is what makes you loveable. Vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness.

Before I started teaching my clients about better communication tools, I used to feel a lot of shame around my own jealousy. I felt unloveable whenever any insecurities came up. I wanted to seem “cool” about things my partner when deep down I wasn’t. I compared myself to other women and overstepped my own boundaries.

How You Can Shift Jealousy into Radical Ownership & Turn-on In Your Relationships

When you start to feel jealousy and insecurities arise, OWN them. In the right setting, take the time to openly and honestly share your truth so that there’s deeper trust and connection. (Ownership and vulnerability is very attractive!)

2. Notice when you see the opposite sex as a threat. Commit to developing healthier friendships with other men and women so that you can build trust and genuinely enjoy eachother’s presence.

3. Remind yourself that you are love without the need for anyone’s approval.

4. When you drop the comparison, jealousy will slowly disapear.

5. Rather than surpress your emotions, allow yourself to feel them. It’s okay to be messy sometimes, it’s okay to feel sad as long as it’s not causing harm to others. Take some time alone or ask a friend if they’d be open to hear you out for a few minutes.

You Can Control Your Jealousy

The two keys to owning jealousy is self-acceptance and ownership. With practice, you can accept your feelings and transform them with empathy, and loving compassion for yourself.

What I want you to know is that ownership is powerful and comparison kills intimacy and connection. Having a support and great communication tools are essential for transformating feelings of jealousy and comparison.

Once you drop the comparison, jealousy will slowly disappear.
How to Edit your Post on Bixex
By: Victoria Lazarus
Tags: Edit, Bixex, Articles, Post, Connection

You have just shared a post on the Bixex platform, it is already gaining some reaction, but along the line, you feel some things should have been said in a better way or you just want to add one or two things. How do you do this? Very simple, follow the steps below to edit your Bixex post.

Sign in to your Bixex account

If you need help on how to share a post, read up this article

After posting the article and you want to edit, go back to the homepage by clicking home

Find your article, when you do, click on the three dots at the right-hand side of the article

You would be given two options: edit post or delete

Click edit post

This redirects you to the page where you have written the article

Edit your post and click publish

Your post has been successfully edited

Bixex is simple, safe, and secure
Should
By: Heidi Zuckerman
Tags: Art, Life, Wisdom, Connection, Love

Should

You know what you should do? Yes. You know what you should do. And while much of most people’s ideas and suggestions and advice and intentions for you come from a good place and likely the best possible place that they can come from for them, they are shoulds for them, not for you. Potentially more damaging though is when we should all over ourselves. Do what you think is right. You are the one you get to wake up every day and be. And there is no should about it. Look at all the data points. And just tell yourself the truth.

I love the simplicity of the lines in Sanyu’s figure drawing from 1965. Everything that is needed to be seen is revealed and within that simplicity of presentation the profundity of the being is revealed. We can see what we seek.
How to Check and Send Messages on Bixex
By: Victoria Lazarus
Tags: Connection, Relationships, Bixex, Message

Would you like to send a message to a connection on Bixex but don’t know how to go about this? Have you been getting messages from connections but have been unable to check because you don’t know the “how to?” Below are the steps on how to check and send messages on Bixex:

Sign in to your Bixex account

On the homepage, navigate to the message icon at the right side of the page where you have your profile picture.

The number of messages you have would be displayed just below the icon. If you have none, the option on the page would be “ no messages to display .”

.” if you have any message, when you click on the message icon, you would be redirected to the message page where the name of the connection that sent the message would be displayed. You can type a reply and send it to the messenger if you want to or ignore the message.

If you have used the option before and would like to see your previous messages and response, click on view all.

When you want to send a message, there are two ways to go about this:

Step one

Click messages

Click the pen image at the front of messages

image at the front of Search the connection you want to send your message to

Compose the message

If you have an image or attachment you want to include, click image or attachment

or you want to include, click image or attachment Upload either of the two

Click send

Step 2

If for instance, you clicked to view all.

To create a message, click create a message at the top end of the page.

at the top end of the page. On the page that pops up, follow the steps explained in step one to compose and send your message.

Sending messages to your connections on Bixex is a very good way to build relationships on the platform.
21 questions that lead to better conversation and deeper connections
By: Brittany Stalgaitis
Tags: Getting To Know, Learning, Conversations, Questions, Connection

Have you ever felt stuck when it comes to getting to know someone?

Are you yearning for a deeper connection with yourself and those who surround you?

Well look no further! In this article I will introduce some questions that will spark beautiful conversations.

Let’s get right into it:

What are you most passionate about? What’s something that not many people know about you? What do you love most about the world? What’s your love language? What do you look for and need in your friendships? Do you have any recurring dreams? If so, what do you think they are trying to tell you? Who do you admire most in your life? How did you know when you fell in love? What’s one of your favorite memories? What are your parents like? What’s your earliest memory? What superpower do you wish you had? How would you use it? What do you wish people understood better about you? Where do you want to be in 5 years? 10 years? Do you have a morning routine? What accomplishments are you most proud of? Where do you need support that you’re not getting it? How are you, really? What is a compliment you receive most often? Do you collect anything? What’s one thing people would be surprised to learn about you?

What are some of your favorite questions to ask or answer? Comment below!
Real
By: Heidi Zuckerman
Tags: Art, Life, Wisdom, Connection, Love

Real

A few days ago a musician and acquaintance Mike Posner posted on Instagram a black-and-white graphic with the repeated text “nothing is real.” In the comments he wrote 12/18. In all likelihood it’s the announcement of a single or an album drop. What has followed over the next few days though has caused increasing concern from his fans as the pictures, photos, and texts in the comments have seemed really dark, full of self loathing and despair, and virtually unhinged. Even knowing that “nothing is real” it’s super disturbing. As a person puts more of their life on display for a large group of people, only a fraction of whom they actually know, that vulnerability, if it’s authentic, breeds empathy and compassion and when someone changes the direction so extremely of how they are self presenting, it’s jarring. Maybe that’s the idea. Maybe it’s somehow allowable as art, even encouraged, but for me over the last few days it’s added to the eeriness and foreboding of today.

Robert Mapplethorp created black-and-white photographs primarily in two different categories, portraiture and flowers. This self-portrait is in the collection of the Museum of modern Art and many of his photographs are both art and also found to be particularly disturbing. They are also very real.
Since 50 claps are the maximum, I an giving you 25 for your thoughts and 25 I had to use to show…
By: Ivana Knezevic
Tags: Understanding, Beauty, Freedom, Connection

Since 50 claps are the maximum, I an giving you 25 for your thoughts and 25 I had to use to show how I appreciate you calling me your friend.

Thank you, Jeff!
Global integration and local responsivness
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Humanity, Nature, Global, Connection, Integration

Question from the Internet:

“What is global integration and local responsiveness?”

Global integration is something Nature’s laws that sustain balance and homeostasis, and evolution’s relentless drive towards full integration in Nature obligates. From Nature’s point of view, Humanity is a single, fully integrated organism like a single body, in which we are all individual cells. Whether we want it or not, willingly or pushed by increasing suffering, we will have to consciously adapt, refine ourselves and Humanity to the state of how Nature’s system, laws treat, obligate us.

Local responsiveness means small, functional, partially independent local communities that have to organize themselves and act in order to cater to local needs, while ensuring the seamless, global integration with other such local units — like organs in the body — so the whole system, the body can function in the most optimal way.

The main driver, the primary calculations are always towards the well-being, optimal development of the whole system, above the independent, local calculations. It is similar to our bodies, while the whole body tries to help, heal one of its sick organs, the whole body cannot be sacrificed for the malfunction of one of its organs.
Arrived, Never to Stay
By: Rj Barrete
Tags: Summer, Poetry, Lavender, Connection, Friendship

Arrived, never left

For peace was found in you

Always in pursuit, elusive, momentary

Drawn into the light for darkness seize

Arrived, never left

And like a Finnish song in a summer, hämmentävä

African hats tempting in all its colours, resisted

Summer was over, lavender wilting

Arrived, never left

New and unknown, controlling

Words with confidence, questioned

For brevity is the language of pain

A coffee maybe one or two

For in silence, we speak

With no intent for goodbyes

But never to stay, never to stay
What Is A ‘Good Father’?
By: The Good Men Project
Tags: Fatherhood, Parenting Advice, Parenting, Children, Connection

What Is A ‘Good Father’?

Photo credit: iStockphoto

By Chaz Thorne

“All I knew when I split with my ex was I wanted to be a good dad to my kids in spite of the divorce. The problem was, I had no idea what a good dad was. I was raised by a single mom and my own dad was completely out of the picture. Best idea I had of good dads were what I saw on TV and in movies.” – Jim

You hear it time and time again, “I just want to be a good dad.” It’s a worthwhile goal. But, what does it mean exactly? What is a “Good Father”?

The massive amount of parenting advice out there is overwhelming and infuriatingly contradictory. Admittedly, me even writing this is obviously adding to the pile. However, in keeping with my promise to you of keeping things practical, tactical and brief, I believe being a good dad comes down to one simple but challenging thing:

Show Up.

What your kids want more than anything is a father that is there.

They know you’re not perfect. There are plenty of things you’re going to screw up, and that’s okay. Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s amazing the little things your kids will forgive when you demonstrate consistently that you’re committed to them just by being present.

Though making every attempt to be physically present as much as possible is important, there is another important way you need to “show up”:

Be with them when you’re with them.

Now that you’re sharing custody, you’re going to see your kids less. Or perhaps, you’ll actually see your kids more. I found when I split from my ex, my time with my daughter became much more focused. I did everything I could to get as much done with work and my social life on the days she wasn’t with me so when I did have her, I could give her my attention. Particularly in the first year, they need your focus.

I certainly don’t advocate for single parenthood; splitting with my child’s mother was a heartbreaking process for all. But, I truly believe I showed up in a way as a single dad that I hadn’t before. I challenged myself to show up (and still do) and that has created a truly remarkable bond with my daughter. My experience allowed me to grow into a Good Father.

Put the phone away. Turn off the TV (or watch something worthwhile together). Put those work papers and laptop in a drawer.

Connect. Be present. Show up. Be a Good Father.
The Connection to The Past
By: Annelise Lords
Tags: Our Past, Inspire 250, Right And Wrong, Connection, Life Lessons

A story on the importance of our Past.

A Sunset for the past. Image by Annelise Lords

Reading I Miss You by Georgia Lewitt, and she said, “Life is too short, the past too long.”

These words got me thinking, are we living our own lives, or are we living someone else’s?

‘Life is too short,’ are words that are repeated often by many. Amazingly, that is after they have lived most of it. Younger people don’t have enough experience to say that.

Good, bad, or indifferent, my past is never a long road. It’s a journey I must take packed with wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and other resources I need to survive in the future. I am connected to my past, and it teaches me new things every day. It teaches me to live without the pain of my mistakes. It helps me to make better decisions as I grow. Because of my connection to my past, I have the power to eliminate regrets.

It showed me why I had to go on the wrong road before I can reach the right one. I went on the wrong road to learn lessons that will prevent me from repeating stupid mistakes in the future. It taught me that life lessons are not only in the things we do wrong but also in the things we do right. It’s just that more lessons and pain come from our wrong actions, choices, and decisions, than the right ones.

The right things that we do bring joy and more strength, not only to us but to the ones who are relying on us to make the right decisions.

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