By Jim Selman | Bio
I was playing a trivia game and had to answer
what the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four,
but had to go to go to Wikipedia to get them all: War, Famine, Conquest
and Death. These traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’,
when all things are put right and presumably all karma is erased and
this journey will be complete. In researching each of them, I learned
that ‘conquest’ is best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’.
The ancient notion of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass
epidemics and plagues. ‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death
is pretty self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark
side of “The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective
future.[ Read More]
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Loneliness is curable. Here are some easy steps to help get you engaged: - Reconnect with family and friends.
Let go of any resentments or regrets you have. Reach out to people you
haven't spoken with in a long time and do whatever it takes to rekindle
the relationship. Spend time with them and communicate using whatever
methods work.
- Surround yourself with upbeat people. Choose your friends carefully. Happiness is just as contagious as loneliness.
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Loneliness has been linked to numerous health hazards, including: high blood pressure, obesity, sleep
dysfunction, depression, compromised immunity and Alzheimer's disease and increased risk for cancer. A study published in the 2009 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
found that loneliness, like happiness, can spread through our social networks. The
study, which followed more than 5,000 participants of the famous
Framingham Heart Study for three decades, reported that loneliness and
feelings of social isolation can travel from person to person
throughout a social network up to three degrees of separation.
Researchers mapped out
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
Recently, I came across an article from the New York Times entitled " Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’",
concerning elderly immigrants in the United States and the loneliness
and isolation that many of them experience, especially those who
speak little or no English. The article references[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
Nathan Oates, a Christian minister who writes a very thoughtful blog called “ Theologically Speaking”,
did a nice piece on loneliness. His point: how we seem to fragment our
society into all kinds of niches and end up not relating to or
connecting with most of the people around us. Even in the churches that
one would imagine to be the most community-oriented institutions, the
norm is to break the congregation into oriented ‘special interest’
groups according to age—the tots, teens, 20 ‘somethings’, 30
‘somethings’, middle-agers and seniors. While such segregation might
make sense in terms of some ‘educational’ objectives, it makes no sense
spiritually and undermines the whole idea of a multigenerational
community.[ Read More]
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I was playing a trivia game and had to answer what the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four, but had to go to go to
Wikipedia to get them all — War, Famine, Conquest and Death. These
traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’, when all things
are put right and presumably all karma is erased and this journey will
be complete. In researching each of them, I learned that ‘conquest’ is
best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’. The ancient notion
of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass epidemics and plagues.
‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death is pretty
self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark side of
“The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective future. When I think about the state of the world in the context of the Four
Horsemen, it is almost overwhelming. Can we even imagine a world where
these ‘dark powers’ don’t prevail?[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
How often have you caught yourself ‘tuning out’ when listening to a
friend, family member or acquaintance? Or had someone point out that
you aren’t really listening to them? We have all, at one time or another, done so—whether consciously or not. [ Read More]
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Sao Paulo is a big city—the largest in Brazil and one of the largest in
the world. From my point of view, it’s not particularly pretty, but it
is alive with energy. On the weekend, I went to Parque Iberapuera,
their equivalent of Central Park. Like most parks on a Saturday
afternoon, it was filled with people of all ages, walking or jogging,
enjoying this lovely oasis in the middle of tall buildings and endless
residential streets. [ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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