Catch Up

January was a busy month and this month started so, as well but I can now slow down and return to balance. I do have a paper war but by now you understand that. Next month I shall be attending a course which should be interesting. It will be about the most common major physical contributors to anxiety and depression. Of course as usual I will be sharing the information with you. I hope to learn something new. I have found that sometimes what physicians consider psychological is actually not, but a physical ailment which has not been diagnosed. I also have a hobby of writing for fun and that has taken a rear ride unfortuantely but allas I cannot do it all. Family first, clients a close second with minimal interference and the rest is pie. Self care of course is always paramount. If you are helping others, I encourage you to balance your life. Sometimes, you have to say no. Practice it. I went to see Hedge Hog which was rather fun. I was surprised to see more adults watching the show than children. My inner child is thriving. I loved it. Silly fun. So have fun. www.redigondapscyhotherapy.com www.silvaredigonda.com

The New Missal continues (theology)

The Roman rite has always progressed in essentially the same forum. The Eastern literagy has very many site requirements. The ritual demands that the space be a certain way. If it is held elsewhere things have to be brought in. As monasteries form and develop you have more donors asking specifically for them and their families. There is a crises. You can’t say all the Masses in one alter and still have the Mass for the rest. So you get more than one alter, to pray for the world. That slight change in the Monastic Cathedral Church is going to provide a shift. The private collapses in some cases all for one person. All the books (prayer of readings, prayer, etc..) are placed in one book. Here you get the Missal, the one book for the celebration of the Eucharist. It is a secondary thing. It is going to become very significant at a great cost. The Germanic sense of the Holy is going to have an effect on Christian Churches. The introduction of the Rood screen, you are re-creating of the Holy of the Holy of the Temple. Does two things: Monastic community for the faithful - separating parishioners and community. It is also a focus of instrument architecturally. It is not a wall. It is a phase of - can look through it and focus on the Eucharistic. There is clearly now a separation. Something has become broken. The response - the Gothic turn - high Middle Ages. Own prayer practices eg. the Rosary, their own way of praying. The Priest now is saying all the prayers, readings himself. No one else is doing any of the ministry himself. What has happened is the private Mass is being moved to the central Mass. Music and preaching are now the only points that intersect orally. This Gothic Cathedral is intentionally an expression of world order. How do you unite them? You put it in one cosmic order. The relationships are outwardly expressed. What was in the meal is now in the space. Building < > visual arts < Ritual > (all interactive). * Prayer facing - facing towards the Alter. All of us - facing with the people toward Christ.* There is a sense of the music having a beauty in itself. The Architecture - what it does is it advertises itself. As the Gothic develops, every single arch is advertised in all of its complexity. Its the beauty itself that gives praises to God, building and music. *This is very important because it will become a shift. To be continued with the late Middle Ages goes to the Italian Renaissance. Next week back to psych notes.

Fraud - Don't fall for it. I post this to make you aware of fraudsters

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Excerpt from The Internet Murders

“The paramedics soon arrived, and everyone moved out of the way to give them space to work on the woman, who was swiftly provided with proper bandaging and moved into the ambulance headed to St Michael’s hospital. Cory answered all the questions asked by the black officer, who looked too sophisticated and polite to be in the police uniform. “Just call me Philip. Do you mind if I call you Cory?” Cory didn’t mind. He was tired and confused. The short officer went to talk to Cory’s friends, who were starting to sober up because of what they had witnessed, but remained too confused to make any sense of the night. “Can you describe him?” Philip asked. “No, it was too dark, just a flash.” It didn’t take long to be obvious that none of the information was helpful except that it had to be a man or a powerful woman to send the girl flying out the door. Tomasso finished off with the stripper drunks. He looked up at the entrance to the building and began looking for cameras. Nothing. How could there not be a surveillance camera in this day and age? How does that happen? He[…]” Excerpt From: Silva Redigonda. “The Internet Murders.” iBooks. www.silvaredigonda.com

FRAUD - tiresome but people fall for this all the time. Should you get this, just delete it.

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Hate - Today the Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gather for the 75th liberation anniversary

When I went to elementary school I learned about the concentrations camps and we watched documentary segments of the horrors. We learned about hate and how it was wrong. When I was older but still in elementary school, we read “Black Like Me” and again learned about hate and how it was wrong. When I went to Europe and visited some of the concentration camps which should always remain, as a reminder of what we are capable of, I felt the pain of our history. I am seeing a resurgence of hate which I didn’t see when I was younger. I live in a multi cultural city and so I am surrounded by the various cultures, religions, food etc…Recently on CP 24 news a host referred to “Brown power” referring to herself and her co host, which raised a concern for me. It was said in playful jest, but I pondered why one still has to think of themselves as a bit about, and that is what power is all about. One having power over another. I do believe we are equal. One may have a better job, a better career, a healthier perspective, better opportunities etc….but deep inside we suffer, we want, we need, we love, we experience joys and happiness etc……Many of us have a conscious and experience guilt unless we are psychopaths, criminal or not. Though we are different, we have similarities. What makes ordinary people become terrorists, Nazis, KKK etc……Where do we learn to hate? I do have a soft spot for the Jewish community. What other group of people did anyone ever try to extinct? How much of a loss did we as a nation suffer? How much potential for humanity was taken away because of hate. While watching a program last night one of the survivors was speaking about the children being gassed while the Nazis watched and laughed. I believe we should have a zero tolerance for hate. We are doing a very bad job at taking care of each other, of nature, and of our planet. It will all be our demise if we do not open our eyes and see that we have a responsibility to speak up when there is a wrong. I am thankful for the education I have had and for the wonderful mentors and positive influences. However, not everyone has the same exposure. Some are born into hateful families, abusive families, and their quality of education may be amiss. Why not take some time to reflect and think about what you love and what you hate and why. Why not say something next time you hear when one is putting another down just for spite or to make themselves look better or superior? I am going to write an excerpt from my second book to express my own feelings of when I went to visit a concentration camp as a tourist during my second career: “During one break I went to visit a concentration camp in France. The countryside was beautiful and wooden buildings neatly marked the rows of the hills. Everything was so manicured. I went into the buildings, saw the ovens, saw the showers where the people were killed and the contrast of the beauty of nature and the cruelty of humanity was too much to bear. In one of the buildings, after looking at the shrunken heads and souvenirs from the torture of Jews, tears flowed down my cheeks. I did not cry, but the tears kept coming, and I leaned against the wall horrified at what I was seeing. I would visit one more concentration camp in Germany, Dachau. I remember looking at a black and white photograph of a young beautiful man, a Jew, hanging dead by a rope. They had drained his body of oxygen. I stared at that beautiful face that death could not tarnish, and felt sadness for this man. He would have been so easy to love. I explored the grounds. I saw where people were tortured, where they slept, and the black and white pictures depicted their emaciated bodies. There was hopelessness on their faces. I stopped at a wall which still had blood stains from the people who had been shot against it. Another building had a shrine in honour of two women British Officers who had died bravely in the concentration camp. Why had I never heard about the women who served and died as soldiers? I did not cry or tear up this time. I had hardened, I suppose, during the time of my tour. One thing I was sure of: although I knew that I could kill, I would never, under any circumstances, torture. I was in the military because I believed in peace, because I believed that people and countries need to be protected by those who could do this. Anyone who had anything to do with this should pay the price with their own lives or spend[…]” Excerpt From: Silva Redigonda. “For love of country : military policewoman.” iBooks. www.silvaredigonda.com “Lest we Forget”

Abnormal psychology notes: Psychophysiological

There are a number of different things that effect general health. There are more things in the environment that can be positive or negative - pollution, mercury, smoke are all negative and there are psychological variables which impact health. Some Stressors are unique for people. Some stressors everyone finds stressful. Eg. burns, beaten up and car accidents - same. Some people have a lower threshold for finding the same. There are family resemblance approaches to stress. If everyone can agree but not really put into words. Eg. Family pictures - looks like a family, characteristics seen - could not explain, but knew same. The grandfather of research in understanding stress is Hans Seyle - 1930’s. He did experiments (with animals which I won’t share because it was cruel) to get a general idea or way animals or people respond to stress - general adaption syndrome. He saw different patients with different stressors and saw the same patterns. There is an alarm reaction 1. Autonomic system activation response (fight or flight syndrome) heart rate goes up. Blood to peripheral is adaptive in short. 2. Adaption which happens because the body can’t keep arousal for very long without - would run out and exhaust quickly. Adaption is attenuated. One or two things happen - can either adapt reasonably well or physical consequence of prolonged stress. Symptoms - development of ulcers - by per secretion of acid in stomach which eats away lining of stomach. 3. Exhaustion Phase - some damage to vital part of body which causes death to individual (not simply psychological). Schater stated that emotion getting arousal and then try to figure out why aroused. Then attribute label to arousal - verbal label. This was considered nonsense to the prof because animals show arousal as well and don’t do the verbal thing. Fear responses - anogesia due to fear pathways that lead to conscious brain. The trick for people is how do you deal with stress? - defence mechanism changed to coping mechanism. There are different ways in which people cope. Here are three basic approaches. 1. Focus on the problem and try to resolve it effectively (eg. test } stress. Task would be to review notes and read book over. 2. Emotion Focus Coping: Deep breathing exercises. Talk to friends about how they handle problems. 3. Avoidance Base Coping - Measure stress (social readjustment scale) react to stressor. There is a lot of stress in everyday lives and a number of scales are constructed to measure this. Sometimes people run into a stressor that can’t be avoided or do a lot about eg. medical - terminal. The will is in order but there is nothing objective to do to change what one is facing. Look at emotional part of what one is facing. Utilize support - structural social support - network of people available to them. Quality of interaction with social support network. If positive, social support network can guide to alter behavior to improve one’s situation. To be continued with social network can work positive or negative………………Next week cont with The New Missal (theology) or tid bit of one of my books which I write for fun and am not spending enough time on.