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- First time to try Ramen Bar and was pleasantly surprised with the food there.
- Family dinner.
- My new iPad Mini
- My new LX7 camera
- Plans with friends for a dinner tomorrow night
- Won free tickets to Thin Ice from British Embassy
- Will get free macarons from Bizu this week
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They killed themselves after being bullied for being gay. It’s not okay. They didn’t deserve that end.
this song, omg.
Psychology Blog (Neurolove/psych-facts): How to go After your Dreams
1. Try to get in touch with your dreams. What do you fantasize about doing with your life? What kind of future makes you feel alive, and makes you feel excited, inspired and energized?
2. Read blogs, books or stories about other people who are following their…
This is so me :(
(Source: m-aleficent)
Psychology Blog (Neurolove/psych-facts): Solutions for The 12 Types of Distorted Thinking
Mind Reading - Confront the person instead of trying to mind read them. For example, tell them what’s been on your mind and ask them to verify if it’s true. Say something like “I’ve been thinking that you possibly like me, is that true?”
Catastrophize -…
Psychology Blog (Neurolove/psych-facts): Various Topics on Psychology and Relationship
There are some easy tools that anyone can use to cope with their feelings of anxiety. They include:
1. Learning more about anxiety: This will help you to understand what is happen when you start to feel increasingly anxious. First, remember that we all feel anxious at times. It can help us to prepare for and cope with hard tasks – such as sitting an exam or teaching a class. However, it leads to problems when the danger isn’t real yet our body is signalling a high state of alert.
2. Learning strategies that help us relax: The two most common strategies for relaxing and unwinding are calming down our breathing and muscle relaxation. The former involves taking slow, gentle breaths (breathing in through the nose, pausing for a few seconds, then breathing out slowly through the mouth, again). The latter involves learning how to tense and relax the different muscles - and then repeating this until our stress levels fall.
Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan
I made 25 animations tonight from this performance. I’m going to share them in sets over the next couple of days. The Dying Swan is a piece of art that moves me every time I watch it & Anna’s original interpretation is the most wrenching. Her movements are fluttering & brave, she’s simultaneously graceful & broken - a gossamer ghost. We just discovered yesterday that our cat enjoys laying with his head near a speaker while this song plays. He closes his eyes, purrs, kneads the air contentedly & his ears twitch when the music swells. It fills my heart.
