Singer Sinead O’Connor dead at 56

Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer known for her intense and beautiful voice, her political convictions and the personal tumult that overtook her later years, has died. She was 56 years old.

O’Connor’s recording of “Nothing Compares 2 U” was one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s. Her death was announced by her family. The cause and date of her death were not made public. The statement said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”

Source: Singer Sinead O’Connor dead at 56 : NPR

Sinead, nothing compares to you!

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Anxiety Unraveled: 10 Strategies to Liberate the Anxious Mind

Discover the keys to liberate your mind from the chains of anxiety. Source: Anxiety Unraveled: 10 Strategies to Liberate the Anxious Mind

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Rethinking Trauma: Understanding Anxiety as Adaptation

Anxiety can be a protective and adaptive response to trauma. Source: Rethinking Trauma: Understanding Anxiety as Adaptation

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Embarrassment (shame)

Embarrassment is a painful but important emotional state. Most researchers believe that the purpose of embarrassment is to make people feel badly about their social or personal mistakes as a form of internal (or societal) feedback, so that they learn not to repeat the error. The accompanying physiological changes, including blushing, sweating, or stammering, may signal to others that a person recognizes their own error, and so is not cold-hearted or oblivious. Go to the source to find the Psychology Today ‘shame’ archives: Embarrassment

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Top 5 ABBA Bass Lines featuring @juliahofermusic

Move over for a minute Mary Spender, Austrian bassist Julia Hofer is my new guilty pleasure!

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How to Love Yourself Effortlessly: 3 Confidence Mindset Shifts

Love is “caring and generous concern for the good of another”. Learn how to apply it to your past, present and future selves and why it’s important.

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Blogging with email

When I first started experimenting with WordPress back in the 00’s, updating websites was really hard! If you wanted to make a change, you had to call your graphic designer and spend a lot of money to change a comma to a period. I first discovered blogging via email in Blogger and then discovered you could do it on WordPress. Each blog has a secret address; whatever you send to that address will appear on your blog. The subject becomes the title, the body becomes the body and if you attach an image it will be formatted as the featured image. When you consider that you can also autopost to Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon, etc. from your blog this feature becomes even more powerful.

Even the most inept business owner knows how to send an email to a specific address — this feature allows anyone to update their website any time they want! Check it out…

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The Effects of Chronic Loneliness on the Elderly

How social isolation affects health and longevity in older individuals. Source: The Effects of Chronic Loneliness on the Elderly

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Reducing social media usage by just 15 minutes a day improves one’s well-being, research suggests

People who spend less time on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are less likely to be depressed or lonely, a recent study found. Source: Reducing social media usage by just 15 minutes a day improves one’s well-being, research suggests

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Why Love Is Good for Well-Being

Discover how it contributes to your well-being and how to cultivate more love. Go to the Source: Why Love Is Good for Well-Being

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5 Reasons Why Insecure (or anxious attachment style) People Are The Best People To Date

Just because someone is insecure doesn’t mean they can’t give you all the love you need. Source: 5 Reasons Why Insecure People Are The Best People To Date

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10 Tips to Combat Loneliness

If you feel lonely, you’re not alone. Source: 10 Tips to Combat Loneliness

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What We Resist Persists

Richard Rohr writes: “When I entered the Franciscan novitiate in 1961, part of our training was learning to avoid, resist, and oppose all distractions. It was such poor teaching, but it was the only way they thought back then. It was all about willpower: celibacy through willpower, poverty through willpower, community through willpower. But what we need isn’t willpower; we need the power to surrender the will and to trust what is. That’s heroic! It was a fruitless and futile effort because if we start with negative energy, a “don’t,” we won’t get very far (see Romans 7:7–11). That was the extent of the teaching, and it’s really no teaching at all—it’s just “Don’t! Don’t do anything!” When we hear that, the ego immediately pushes back. Somedays we have strong willpower and we succeed, but most days we barely succeed.” Go to the Source: What We Resist Persists

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Not a straight line

A friend once said that god draws straight with crooked lines. Perhaps there’s a connection to this thought there…

Karl Duffy's avatarMindfulbalance

The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

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Finding the Calm Inside: How to Cultivate Self-Awareness to Create Inner Peace

Sarah Chauncey writes “In 2010, I decided I would try to rewire my wildly anxious brain for inner peace. Here are some of the key lessons I learned.” Source: Finding the Calm Inside: How to Cultivate Self-Awareness to Create Inner Peace – Tiny Buddha

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And I did rise…

How can I not reblog this? Hesse’s Siddhartha literally changed the trajectory of my life. My master’s thesis was on the connection between Hesse’s Siddhartha and Hegel’s Dialectic. Had I continued on with my doctoral degree my goal would have been to become a world famous Hermann Hesse scholar. Search this brightshinyobjects.net for the words Hesse and/or Siddhartha and/or dialectic and you’ll see that my passion for this topic still smolders beneath the surface. If you haven’t read Siddhartha you owe it to yourself. It’s a book I have read every year for the past 45 years…

Live & Learn's avatarLive & Learn

(He) handed me a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up.” Reading that sentence for the first time in the small bedroom I shared with Charlie, it was as if I were reading about myself: In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the highway near the droning automobiles, in the shade of the pine trees, in the shade of the dead-end street is where Tom Lowe Jr. grew up. Siddhartha and his search for who he was meant to be, it was me on that river, it was me on those banks, and it was me who began to see books as doorways to worlds that could only help me rise in this…

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Why Vacations Are So Good for the Brain

The power of a “brain-cation” in unleashing creativity. Source: Why Vacations Are So Good for the Brain

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11 Things to Do When You Feel Lonely

Many of us are feeling a bit lonelier these days. These tips may help—some involving other people, and some you can follow all by yourself. Source: Greater Good

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3 ways to create community and counter loneliness

“Loneliness is complicated. You can feel lonely when you lack friends and miss companionship, or when you’re surrounded by people — even friends and family.

Either way, loneliness can have devastating health effects. It boosts risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, depression, high blood pressure, declining thinking skills, inability to perform daily living tasks, and even an early death. The remedy? Below we offer three ways to ease loneliness and add happiness by helping you expand your social network.” Go to the Source: 3 ways to create community and counter loneliness – Harvard Health

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4 Mistakes to Avoid when You’re Lonely

Misconceptions can stop us from getting close to others. But we can take steps to counter these beliefs. Source: Advice | 4 mistakes to avoid when you’re lonely

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Surrendering to the Present Moment 

Father Richard Rohr says “If we watch our minds, we will see that we live most of our life in the past or in the future. The present always seems boring and not enough. To get ourselves engaged, we will often “create a problem” to resolve, and then another, and another. The only way many of us know how to motivate ourselves is to create problems or to need to “fix” something, someone else, or ourselves.” Source: Surrendering to the Present Moment 

PS I find repeating the phrase I learned from Tara Brach and Dorothy Hunt to be very powerful for staying in this present moment: “Peace is this moment without judgement“.

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