Water...

Nella Fantasia English Translation of Italian Original Song Lyrics | ResourcesForLife.com

  Put on your to-read list.  I could not believe all the connections between organizations that I'm familiar with!  For me, as interesting as the CEF's Good News Clubs are, most interesting are the connections of the heavy hitter "Christian Nationalists" behind the story of the Good News Clubs and especially the fall out of the US Supreme Court's ruling in Good News Clubs v. Milford Central School (2001).   Page 251- 252, does not mention ACE, but it reads:    "The campaign to remove children from public schools is quickly gathering steam.  A substantial number of fundamentalist parents have already cast their votes silently, by bringing their children home.  Between 1999 and 2007, homeschooling shot up by 74 percent, to over 1.5 million children, representing approximately 3 percent of all school-age children in the United States--a figure that is undoubtedly higher today.  The largest part of that growth came from parents motivated by religious conce

Dr. Albert Ellis: 104 Rational Maxims to Control My anxiousThinking .  Copied from  How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You  (pages 190-205) REBT insights that will significantly help me 1.        Adversities frequently exist in my life and in the world, and I frequently have little control over them.  Usually , however, when I become seriously disturbed about them, I choose to upset myself by my attitudes about them. 2.        The past Adversities of my life may well have strongly contributed to my disturbances.  But so did I!  When I am now, years later, very upset about them, I am still making my powerful dysfunctional conclusions about the past.  Still! 3.        I can virtually always change my disturbing Irrational Beliefs about the past and the present--not merely by gaining insight into them but by considerable work and practice to think, feel, and act against them.  Yes, considerable work and practice! 4.        Recognizing what people and events did

Dr. Albert Ellis: 104 Rational Maxims to Control My anxiousThinking .  Copied from How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You (pages 190-205) Minimizing my absolutistic   musts, shoulds, aughts, and demands and the irrational beliefs that go with them   1.       I will  watch my unconditional, absolutistic musts and change them into strong preferences, such as "I would very much like to do well and be approved by others, but I don't have to do so and my worth as a person doesn't depend on doing anything!" 2.       I will watch my overgeneralizations and make them more concrete: "If I fail at something important, I won't always fail and may frequently succeed." 3.       I will watch my awfulizing.  "It's bad to lose out on something I really want, but it's not awful or horrible.  There's a good chance I'll get it later, but if I never do, it is just very depriving.  The earth will keep spinning! Life will go

Here is a self-study of some internal "character's" that I'm getting to know.  If you think this is strange language, it's helpful to understand the ideas found in  "Internal Family Systems Models" by Richard C Schwartsz.    I'm crafting these stories for my own healing. . . .  2/18/2013 Worrying rose early this morning.  Feeling lost, well in the last slumbers of this morning, worry saw the stars twinkling.  It heard a critical voice call.  Still enjoying a warm bath, he looked into the depths of the universe and caught a glimpse of the swirling beauty.  It was a short-lived glimpse.  Almost immediately the glimpse past.  Next he figured out an explanation, then felt unable to come up with a viable plan to explain what that glimpse was.  So worry now showered, rested, sits and views the grader of the mountains.  The morning dawn plays at the horizon.  Its breath taking.  Washing away the worrisome fears, kindly and gently worry looks at th