Comments on: The biggest challenge for positive psychology is dealing with dark times http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-biggest-challenge-for-positive-psychology-is-dealling-with-dark-times/ positive about social media in business Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:55:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Poetry to remind us that withdrawing doesn’t solve rejection « flowing motion http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-biggest-challenge-for-positive-psychology-is-dealling-with-dark-times/#comment-1700 Poetry to remind us that withdrawing doesn’t solve rejection « flowing motion Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:40:59 +0000 http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-1700 [...] We may be rejected but it will help us little to go this way “I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends.” By Linda Pastan, a new poet for me. When we are out of sorts with the world, we must ask ourselves how we can change the conversation and fall in love with life again. When we are feeling bruised, we might also remember “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver.  “You do not have to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert . .  You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves . . Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh, and exciting ~ over and over announcing your place in the family of things”. UPDATE:  I’ve just found this old post and link to a tremendous poem on living with fear [...] [...] We may be rejected but it will help us little to go this way “I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends.” By Linda Pastan, a new poet for me. When we are out of sorts with the world, we must ask ourselves how we can change the conversation and fall in love with life again. When we are feeling bruised, we might also remember “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver.  “You do not have to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert . .  You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves . . Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh, and exciting ~ over and over announcing your place in the family of things”. UPDATE:  I’ve just found this old post and link to a tremendous poem on living with fear [...]

]]> By: scotchcart http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-biggest-challenge-for-positive-psychology-is-dealling-with-dark-times/#comment-44 scotchcart Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:44:50 +0000 http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-44 Thanks even with the backhanded compliment at the end! Thanks even with the backhanded compliment at the end!

]]> By: Considine http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-biggest-challenge-for-positive-psychology-is-dealling-with-dark-times/#comment-40 Considine Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:49:15 +0000 http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-40 Someone you know fairly well and who has endured a trying experience in his personal life, finds your post inspirational. He also wishes to compliment the flow of your writing. Your blog is curiously more artistic and literary than your conversation. Someone you know fairly well and who has endured a trying experience in his personal life, finds your post inspirational. He also wishes to compliment the flow of your writing.

Your blog is curiously more artistic and literary than your conversation.

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