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I have been a fan of coconut oil for many years now, but had no idea just how beneficial it could be until I saw this video. Take a look, and let me know if you find it as interesting as I did. And if you know of any Alzheimer's sufferers, do them a favor and give this information to their caregiver.
Mary Newport, the MD in that video, has more information on coconut oil here:
By Mary T. Newport, MD – Updated September 2009
See www.coconutketones.com for more informationHOW CAN COCONUT OIL BE USED IN THE DIET?
Coconut oil can be substituted for any solid or liquid oil,
lard, butter or margarine in baking or cooking on the stove, and
can be mixed directly into foods already prepared. Some people
take it straight with a spoon, but for most people it may be hard to
swallow this way and more pleasant to take with food. When
cooking on the stove, coconut oil smokes if heated to greater than
350 degrees or medium heat. You can avoid this problem by
adding a little olive or peanut oil. Coconut oil can be used at any
temperature in the oven when mixed in foods.WHAT IS THE NUTRIENT CONTENT OF COCONUT
OIL? DOES IT CONTAIN OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS?Coconut oil has about 117-120 calories per tablespoons,
about the same as other oils. It contains 57-60% medium chain
triglycerides, which are absorbed directly without the need for
digestive enzymes. Part of it is metabolized by the liver to ketones
which can be used by most cells in the body for energy. This
portion of the coconut oil is not stored as fat. Coconut oil is about
86% saturated fat, most of which is the medium chain fats that are
metabolized differently than animal saturated fats. It contains no
cholesterol and no transfat as long as is non-hydrogenated. An
advantage of a saturated fat is that there is nowhere on the
molecule for free radicals or oxidants to attach. About 6% of the
oil is monounsaturated and 2% polyunsaturated. Coconut oil also
contains a small amount of phytosterols, which are one of the
components of the "statins" used for lowering cholesterol.
Coconut oil contains omega-6 fatty acids but no omega-3 fatty
acid, so this must be taken in addition to coconut oil. You can
obtain all of the essential fatty acids required by using just
coconut oil and omega-3 fatty acids. If you were to use coconut
oil as your primary oil, the only other oil you would need is an
omega-3 fatty acid, which you can get by eating salmon twice a
week, or taking fish oil or flax oil capsules, 2-3 per day. Some
other good sources of omega-3 fatty acids are ground flax meal,
chia (a fine grain), walnut oil and walnuts. Lauric acid is a
medium chain triglyceride that makes up almost half of the
coconut oil. Scientific studies show that lauric acid has
antimicrobial properties and may inhibit growth of certain
bacteria, fungus/yeast, viruses and protozoa. It is one of the
components of human breast milk that prevents infection in a
newborn.WHAT KIND OF COCONUT OIL SHOULD I USE?
Look for coconut oils that are non-hydrogenated with no
transfat. Avoid coconut oils that are hydrogenated or superheated
because it changes the chemical structure of the fats. If you
like the odor of coconut, look for products called "virgin,"
"organic," or "unrefined," which are generally more expensive
than "refined," or "all natural," or "RBD" (refined, bleached and
deodorized) coconut oil, which do not have an odor. The oil itself
is tasteless. Any of these have essentially the same nutrient with
about 57-60% MCT oil (medium chain triglycerides.) The least
expensive that I have been able to find so far is the Louanna brand
at Walmart, priced locally at $5.44 per quart. Using coconut oil
capsules is not an efficient way to give the oil since the capsules
are relatively expensive and contain only 1 gram of oil per
capsule, whereas the oil is 14 grams per tablespoon. Capsules
might be useful for someone who will not take the oil.WHY DOES THE COCONUT OIL LOOK "CLOUDY?"
Coconut oil is a clear or slightly yellow liquid above 76
degrees but becomes solid at 76 degrees and below. If your house
is kept right around 76 degrees you may even see partly liquid oil
with solid clouds of oil floating in it. If your home is generally
kept at 75 degrees or below, the oil will tend to be a white or
slightly yellow soft semi-solid.WHAT OTHER COCONUT PRODUCTS CONTAIN
COCONUT OIL?Coconut milk is a combination of the oil and the water from
the coconut and most of the calories are from the oil. Look for
brands with 10 to 13 grams of fat in 2 ounces. Look in the grocery
store's Asian section. Some brands are less expensive but are
diluted with water. Coconut cream is mostly coconut milk and
sometimes has added sugar. Flaked or grated coconut can be
purchase unsweetened or sweetened and is a very good source of
coconut oil and fiber and has about 15 grams oil and 3 grams fiber
in ¼ cup. Frozen or canned coconut meat usually has a lot of
added sugar and not much oil per serving. A fresh coconut can be
cut up into pieces and eaten raw. A 2" x 2" piece has about 160
calories with 15 grams of oil and 4 grams of fiber. MCT Oil
(medium chain triglycerides) are part of the coconut oil and can
also be purchased in some health food stores or on-line. This may
be useful for people who are on the go and do not have much time
to cook. Also, MCT oil is used as energy and not stored as fat, so it
may be useful for someone who wants to lose weight, if substituted
for some of the other fats in the diet. Coconut water does not
usually contain coconut oil, but has other health benefits. The
electrolyte composition is similar to human plasma and is useful to
prevent or treat dehydration.HOW SHOULD I STORE COCONUT PRODUCTS?
Coconut oil is extremely stable with a shelf life of at least two
years when stored at room temperature. It does not need to be
refrigerated and becomes extremely hard when cold. If you wish
to keep it in the refrigerator, you can measure out 1 or 2
tablespoons into each section of a plastic ice cube tray. The
coconut oil easily pops out of the plastic tray. Coconut milk is
mostly coconut oil and can be substituted for the oil in many ways.
Coconut milk must be refrigerated after opening and should be
used within a few days or tossed out. Grated or flaked coconut can
be stored at room temperature for a few weeks, but may last longer
if stored in a refrigerator. A freshly cut up coconut can be stored in
the refrigerator for a few days or freezer for a couple of weeks.WHO SHOULD TRY THIS?
People who have a neurodegenerative disease that involves
decreased glucose uptake in neurons could benefit from taking
higher amounts of coconut and/or MCT oil to produce ketones
which may be used by brain cells as energy. These diseases
include Alzheimer's and other dementias, Parkinson's, ALS (Lou
Gehrig's), multiple sclerosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy,
autism, Down's syndrome, and Huntington's chorea. Ketones can
also serve as an alternative fuel for other cells in the body that are
insulin resistant or cannot transport glucose, and could potentially
lessen the effects of diabetes I or II on the brain and other organs.
If you are at risk due to family history, you consider making this
dietary change as well. If your loved one is in assisted living, the
doctor may be willing to prescribe coconut oil to be given at each
meal, increasing gradually.HOW MUCH SHOULD I TAKE?
If you take too much oil too fast, you may experience
indigestion, cramping or diarrhea. To avoid these symptoms, take
with food and start with 1 teaspoon coconut oil or MCT oil per
meal, increasing slowly as tolerated over a week or longer. If
diarrhea develops drop back to the previous level. For most
people, the goal would be to increase gradually to 4-6 tablespoons
a day, depending on the size of the person, spread over 2-4 meals.
Mixing MCT oil and coconut oil could provide higher levels and
a steady level of ketones. One formula is to mix 16 ounces MCT
oil plus 12 ounces coconut oil in a quart jar and increase slowly as
tolerated, starting with 1 teaspoon. This mixture will stay liquid
at room temperature.WHAT ABOUT CHILDREN?
Children with Down's syndrome and some children with
autism show decreased glucose uptake in parts of the brain. A
reasonable amount to give a child would be about ¼ teaspoon of
coconut oil for every 10 pounds that the child weighs, 2 or 3 times
a day. Also, some children like the taste of coconut milk – 1 ½ to
2 teaspoons per 10 pounds weight can be added to the diet 2 or 3
times a day. If you use coconut milk for a child be sure to
refrigerate it and toss after two days. Do not add honey to
coconut milk for children under 1 year old due to risk of infection.DO I NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT GAINING
WEIGHT FROM THE EXTRA FAT IN THE DIET?Yes!! The best way to avoid gaining weight is to substitute
coconut oil for most other fats and oils in the diet, and if that isn't
enough, cut back on portion sizes of carbohydrates, such as
breads, rice, potatoes, cereals, and other grains. In general it is a
good idea to use whole milk products but, if weight gain is a
problem, you can also compensate for some of the new fat in the
diet by changing from full fat to lower fat dairy products, such as
milk, cheese, cottage cheese and yogurts, as well as low-fat or fatfree
salad dressings, to which you can add coconut oil. Also, use
a measuring spoon and remove the excess by leveling it with a
knife to avoid overestimating, which can make a big difference in
the number of calories consumed. Tiny glass measuring cups are
available at grocery stores with markings for teaspoons and
tablespoons. These are especially useful for combining salad
dressing with coconut oil.DOES COCONUT OIL INCREASE CHOLESTEROL?
Hydrogenated coconut oil can increase cholesterol.
Therefore look for non-hydrogenated coconut oil with no transfat.
There is no cholesterol in coconut oil itself, and with nonhydrogenated
coconut oil, most people will see little difference or
will see an improvement in their HDL ("good") and a decrease in
LDL ("bad") cholesterol. Some see an increase in total
cholesterol, usually as a result of an increase in HDL ("good")
cholesterol.SOME OTHER BENEFITS OF COCONUT OIL AND
OTHER COCONUT PRODUCTSCoconut oil is easily absorbed by the body and increases
absorption of certain vitamins and minerals and other important
nutrients. This would also hold true for coconut milk, coconut
meat, whether wet or dry, such as flaked or grated coconut. The
fiber in coconut meat may be especially beneficial to persons with
Crohn's or other types of inflammatory bowel disease or
malabsorption syndromes and people who have diarrhea from MCT
or coconut oil.
All of your cell membranes and about 60-70% of the brain and
are made up of fats. Cholesterol is a very important component of
the support structure of the brain. Many cell functions take place
within the cell membrane. Since about the 1950's many people in
this country have been using 100% vegetable oil, which is usually
hydrogenated polyunsaturated fat and contains transfat, which can
carry free radicals into your cell membranes. If you begin to
substitute coconut and other natural oils, such as olive oil and even
butter, along with omega-3 oils you may be able to undo some of
the damage. Most of the cells of the body turn over within 3 to 6
months and you may notice a nicer texture to your skin, and a
decrease in certain problems such as yeast and fungal infections.FOOD IDEAS
· Use coconut oil instead of butter on toast, English muffins,
bagels, grits, corn on the cob, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice,
vegetables, noodles, pasta.
· Mix coconut oil into oatmeal or other hot cereal.
· Add coconut oil or milk to smoothies, yogurt or kefir.
· Mix coconut oil half and half with salad dressings.
· Mix coconut oil into your favorite soup, chili or sauce.
· Use a measured amount of coconut oil to stir fry or sauté (add
peanut oil over medium heat)
· Purchase or make coconut macaroons made from all natural
· Eat a 2" x 2" square of raw coconut for a snack to provide 15
grams of oil.
· Add flaked or grated coconut to hot or cold cereal, yogurt, fruit
or vegetable salads.
· "The Coconut Lover's Cookbook," Bruce Fife – many more
great ideasCoconut macaroons:
2 egg whites Dash of salt 1/2 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup sugar or 1/4 cup sugar and 1 to 2 dashes of Stevia extract
1 cup shredded coconut
Beat egg whites with salt and vanilla until soft peaks form.
Gradually add sugar (and stevia), beating until stiff. Fold in
coconut. Coat cooking sheet with generous amount of butter.
Drop by the rounded teaspoon onto cookie sheet. Bake at 325
degress for 20 minutes. Makes about 18 cookies. Each cookie at
this size would have about 4 grams of coconut oil.Coconut Milk:
Mix in a container and shake well before use:
1 can of coconut milk ½ can of water Dash of salt
1-2 tablespoons of honey or other sweetener to taste
- Store in refrigerator and discard unused portion after 4 days.
MCT Oil/Coconut oil Mixture
Store at room temperature, in a quart size jar:
16 ounces MCT oil + 12 ounces coconut oil"Fudge"
Melt and mix together 1 cup each of coconut oil and chocolate
chips and divide equally into a plastic ice cube tray and place in
freezer. In a 16 cube tray, each cube will equal 1 tablespoon
coconut oil. Add grated coconut and/or nuts for variety.
If you're looking to buy some coconut oil after reading all this, my wife has a link to a review of the best source we have found on her Facebook Wall. I asked her if we would earn any money from it, but she said "unfortunately, no!" Anyway, the source is Tropical Traditions.


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The Vampire Diary
Did we send a single, 25-year-old Twilight newbie to watch all of the movies in a row? Yes, yes we did.
By Robert Mays onIt was raining in Los Angeles last Thursday morning. The drops fell as steadily as they ever do here, but even walking through an open-air mall, I was glad. Rarely does the weather pull me into movie theaters anymore, but considering I was about to spend the next 12 hours in one, I preferred it to be dreary out. Oh, especially if those 12 hours were reserved for all five Twilight movies.
I'm not unfamiliar with movie-watching stunts, and when my editors figured out that the opening of Breaking Dawn — Part 2 would be accompanied by a marathon of the first four films, my fate was sealed. The idea, like others have had in the past week or so, is that I'd lose my Twilight virginity, but I'd do it all at once. All five movies, in succession, to see just how quickly one can become a Twi-hard.
The mall was mostly empty when I got there at 11:30 a.m., and the only other people on the slick paths were trying to sell me beauty products. The theater reserved for the marathon was on the lower floor of the AMC at the shopping center's west end. Before going down the escalator, I exchanged half my ticket for a fancy lanyard that would act as my pass for the rest of the day. Overlaid on a dark background of all the movies' posters was a clear piece of thin plastic listing the start time for each movie. Below was the slogan for the day's events: "I survived five immortal films." That seemed a bit optimistic.
I walked inside and surveyed the crowd. There were four other men. The theater was a little less than half full, and I took my seat in the last row of the front section. I hadn't left much time before the start of the first movie, and within a few minutes, a featurette with three actors I'd never seen before popped onto the screen. The lights went down shortly after, and as the opening titles started, so did the cheers. They sounded more like something from a rock concert than the squeal of teenage girls, but they were there, and they were loud. There was no going back.
Aside from the deer being chased through the forest and the voice-over about dying in the place of someone you love, Twilight starts like most teen movies. Bella is a 17-year-old girl who lives in Phoenix with her mom and stepdad. His job as a minor league baseball player means a lot of travel, and they've decided that it's best for Bella to spend some time living with her dad in Washington. Charlie, as she calls him, is the police chief in a town of about 3,000 called Forks, and, if you can imagine, he just doesn't get teenage girls. ("Your hair's longer." "I cut it since the last time I saw you." "Oh.")
I've seen this movie before, but if there's any indication of how little I remember, it came about two minutes in, when Taylor Lautner shows up as the long-haired, 15-year-old Jacob, who doesn't yet look like 2004 Barry Bonds. I know of the Edward-Jacob situation, but my understanding was that it came much later. We were about 1/300th of the way in, and I was already confused.
Anyway, Jacob's dad is a friend of Charlie's, and sells him a beat-up old truck that Bella drives to school. All the kids (including Anna Kendrick! Who knew Anna Kendrick was in these movies? Besides every girl in the world under 15?) are surprisingly friendly, and soon Bella's at lunch learning what's up in Forks. That's about when the vampires come in.
The Cullens are all foster-siblings who look 30, are extremely pale, and date each other. Only the last one seems to be an issue during Anna Kendrick's rundown. As I went to jot the details of the love rectangle ("Hulk with blonde," "Short-haired brunette with Blondward Scissorhands"), the entire theater screamed. "That's Edward Culllen," Anna Kendrick said as Robert Pattinson walked into the cafeteria. "He's totally gorgeous, obviously." Obviously.
Standard romantic movie tropes follow. The mysterious boy acts as though he doesn't like the girl only because he really likes the girl. Except this time, liking the girl is a product both of craving her blood and not being able to read her mind. Before admitting any of this, Edward manages to stop a careering car with one hand just as it's about to crush Bella in a parking lot. Being the observant girl she is, this raises a few questions. Eventually, after a few more run-ins and some deep Googling, Bella has an epiphany ending with Pattinson in Peter Murphy makeup and sucking her blood — Edward Cullen is a vampire.
He admits as much during a scene in the forest that included enough blatant sexual overtones to make me a little embarrassed to be in the company of others. Along with lines about her scent being a drug, there's more lip-quivering going on than I thought possible. Until that point, aside from the blatancy of the red lips and the pale complexion, I hadn't seen much of the widely recognized notion that these movies are about virginity. No worries, though. I get it now.
Because a movie needs some semblance of conflict beyond lip pouts, a group of rogue vampires starts terrorizing the townsfolk and eventually confronts the Cullens following a family game of vampire baseball in which they all dress like the cast of Eight Men Out. One of the vampires decides that he needs Bella's blood, and an interstate pursuit begins. It all ends with the dude getting ripped limb-from-limb and burned in a ballet studio, but let's not forget the real problem at hand here: Bella and Edward are in love, but just how are they going to end up together?
New Moon
The first suspicious look I noticed came at about 2 p.m., just before the second movie was about to start. I'd just settled back into my seat after grabbing lunch during the half-hour break when I caught two girls in my row peeking at me before turning to each other and giggling. Apparently, a 25-year-old man can't enjoy a Twilight marathon by himself anymore.
I'd been surprisingly unoffended by the first movie, and I figured whatever my thoughts were the first time I'd seen it were likely a product of being 21 and reacting like I thought I was supposed to. For a few minutes, I let myself think that this entire exercise wouldn't be as bad as I'd feared.
Then the second movie started.
New Moon opens on Bella's 18th birthday, about which she spends the entire first 20 minutes freaking out because she's now one year older than Edward and oh no he doesn't age and he's not going to love her when she's old and wrinkly and he's still 17 and why won't he just change her into a vampire already so they can be together for eternity. I get that they're in love, and everything happening between 18-year-olds is the most important thing that will ever happen to anyone, but they can never seem to just chill. It doesn't seem healthy.
The whole mortal/immortal problem comes to a head at Bella's birthday party at Casa de Cullen, where a paper cut sends a drop of her blood to the floor and Blondward Scissorhands into a murderous frenzy. The resulting chaos is enough for Edward to conclude that Bella just isn't safe around him, and that the family has to leave town.
Bella is obviously crestfallen, and what follows is about 80 percent her lying in bed screaming and 20 percent her sitting in a chair as a Lykke Li song plays and the seasons slowly change. Again, there just isn't a lot of chilling going on.
Eventually, Bella (sort of) digs out of this depression and learns that if she puts herself in danger, a weird Obi-Wan Cullen thing happens where Edward creepily floats alongside and tells her to take it easy. This leads to some time with motorcycles: First she's on the back of one with a (possibly murderous) stranger, and then later she's convincing Jacob to work on a couple of old bikes for her. And the Jacob-Edward feud begins!
I found myself torn between Teams Edward and Jacob as the movie went on. Jacob's got it pretty tough here. Not only is he dealing with the perilous spot of being emotionally available for a girl while she's getting over a breakup, he's doing it while learning that he's actually a werewolf who's been battling that other dude's kind for centuries. Being relegated to both the friend and werewolf zones can be a lot for a 16-year-old kid.
Jacob does his best to prove that he's really the down-home sort of guy Bella belongs with. Mostly because, well … she doesn't have to become a soulless demon for him. It all falls on deaf ears, though, and in one last-ditch effort to see Obi-Wan Cullen, Bella dives off a cliff into the ocean. Thinking she's dead, and carrying on the very not-subtle Romeo and Juliet references throughout this installment, Edward tries to convince a group of elder vampires to kill him. Then there's a stolen Ferrari, and Wesley from 30 Rock, a clock tower in Italy, Demon Dakota Fanning (possibly redundant), and Robert Pattinson's really weird chest hair. In order to escape destruction at the hands of the Volturi (creepy elder vampires led by Wesley) and keep their secrets hidden, Pattinson promises to turn Bella into a vampire. No one dies, and Pattinson, who is supposedly 108 years old, asks Bella to marry him.
The credits rolled, and I stumbled, disoriented, out of the theater like Bella staggering through the forest. It wasn't one of the five worst movies I've ever seen, but it was one of the 10 worst, and the thought of six more hours had become more horrifying than Demon Dakota Fanning. For the record, Demon Dakota Fanning is fucking terrifying. Hollywood'll do that to a child actor who's in the game too long.
If Kristen Stewart's night terrors didn't suffice, the break between movies two and three presented a scenario surreal enough to last me a while. When riding the escalator from the lower floor to the main lobby at the Century City AMC, the angle of the theater's two-story glass windows makes it so that only a small portion of a large display of actor photos lining the upper portion of the back wall is visible in the reflection. The most prominent photo in that small section is of Halle Berry accepting her Oscar. Riding up to get a cup of coffee, I was looking at it when I noticed a woman in sunglasses on the descending escalator next to me. It was Halle Berry. And in that moment, I was sure that Twilight had somehow taken me to another dimension. One in which Academy Award winners could be conjured from thin air to silently mock me during my quest.
The first thing I noticed when Eclipse started was how much better the movie looked. The CGI'd werewolves never got any better, but the first few scenes looked much crisper than those of the movie's predecessors. Because Pattinson was back in town spending most of his time re-asking Bella to marry him, the action in Part 3 shifted from his intense brooding to an enemy army of newly turned vampires. I think we can all agree that a werewolf-vampire alliance against an army of man-eating demons is more agreeable than watching Count Sulk-ula's fangs quiver, and it wasn't long before I was enjoying myself. When Lautner drove up to relieve Pattinson of his shift on Bella's security detail, I laughed along with everyone else when Edward asked whether he owned a shirt.
Of the things that surprised me about the Twilight movies, how much I laughed surprised me most. Much of the comedy was unintentional, but enough of it was with purpose. The best piece of casting probably goes to Bella's dad, whose flat affect was ideal when the mood needed lightening — which, if you can imagine, was always.
There weren't many surprises in the lead-up to the Final Showdown: Blondward Scissorhands was actually a Confederate soldier who'd previously created his own vampire army; Edward refuses to have sex with Bella because they're not married, he was born in 1900, and that's just how they got down in ye olden times; and the opposition army was actually put together by Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays the vampire girlfriend of the dude who wanted to eat Bella in the first movie. Follow? OK, great.
All this leads up to the night before the climactic final battle, when Bella and Edward are sharing a tent at the top of a mountain (I cannot explain why). Freezing, because it's snowing and they're at the top of a mountain, Bella has Jacob and his 108-degree body temperature crawl into her sleeping bag. This leads to what is both the most awkward and possibly best scene of the first three movies — Edward and Jacob in a tent, discussing Bella, her future, and their respective feelings for her. As I watched, I felt the emotional investment growing, and I could tell that I'd been compromised. The next morning, when Jacob learned that Bella and Edward were getting married and she kissed Jacob, I had to stop myself from having an audible response. For the past five hours, all I've seen is this guy there for her when she's needed it most, and when the only decent thing is for her to cut him loose, this is how she's going to do him? Oh, and there was a battle scene where a bunch of vampires were eviscerated by werewolves and other vampires. But she kissed Jacob! So not OK.
Breaking Dawn — Part 1
We'll get to weddings, speedboats, sex, and chess, but first, let's take a minute to talk about demon babies. Well … OK, maybe we should get the other stuff out of the way.
For the final two installments of Twilight — Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 — Summit was looking for a big-name director to bring it home (the other three directors: Catherine Hardwicke, Chris Weitz, and David Slade). A few names were floated, and eventually they landed Bill Condon of Dreamgirls fame. I can only assume they went with the first person who'd made a movie they'd heard of and would say yes, but the upgrade was evident from the start. Bella and Edward's wedding was easily the best part of the series so far, thanks in large part to Charlie. The look on his face as he walked Bella down the aisle, and the comedic chops in his speech later on, gave the whole situation the right combination of gravity and levity. I was laughing. I was a little choked up. The whole thing made me wonder if they were pumping something through the vents into the theater. (This is again where I mention that I've been compromised and probably have no authority to see this with clear eyes.)
Jacob shows up and there's a bit of drama, but the wedding ends without bloodshed, and Bella and Edward jaunt down to Brazil for their honeymoon. This is where most of my questions come in. First, where do the Cullens get all this money? Does being a doctor in rural Washington bring in the type of cash it takes to own an island getaway off the coast of Brazil? Where did Edward learn how to drive a speedboat? Is he James Bond? Is James Bond a vampire? Wouldn't that make a lot of sense?
They arrive at the island paradise and finally, after about 400 minutes of trembling lips, deep gazes, and blatant euphemisms, there will be sex! Well, after K-Stew spends an hour getting ready. And they skinny dip in the moonlight. Then there's sex! What happens on camera is all pretty tame, but we soon learn how it really went down. A broken bed and two horrified housekeepers later, Bella ends up with a few bruises — an unsurprising hazard while getting down with someone who can throw entire trees and stop careering cars with one hand — and Edward decides that they're done doing it until Bella gets turned into a vampire. Obviously, the best way to deal with these types of urges is to play a lot of chess.
And now comes the demon baby. Apparently, a result of the little sex the two had is a devilish spawn growing inside Bella at an alarming rate. The reaction from just about everyone is, "Umm … how did this happen?" The reaction of the wise, native housekeeper is simply, "Death." That seems to be how it's going to go for most of the movie. For some reason (I tried to wait out the explanation before running to the bathroom, but those 180-ounce Diet Cokes do a number on the bladder), the werewolves want the demon baby dead. Meanwhile, the demon baby is too strong for Bella's body, and it's slowly killing her. I have no idea how much meth would be required to make a normal-looking human appear as awful as K-Stew looked during this whole ordeal, but I'm assuming it would be more than someone could carry alone. At one point Jacob wisecracks that maybe Bella should start drinking blood. And she does! And it works! Demon baby appeased! Sort of. It was still touch-and-go for a while, and as Bella's bones started to break, it was time to get that thing out.
It needs to be understood that the end of this movie is one of the more horrifying things I've ever seen. (Warning: This gets bad.) Things go from Alien (demon C-section followed by Edward gnawing a baby out of his wife's abdomen) to Pulp Fiction (needle full of vampire venom to the heart of a lifeless Bella) in about five minutes. Everything about the scene — from the shot of everyone standing over her, to the sickening screams, to the splashing of the blood — was disturbing beyond explanation, all topped off by Pattinson holding his newborn daughter with his wife's blood covering his face while she lies lifeless on the table. At one point, I actually let out an "Oh my god," most likely in the heat of the stomach-chomping. I can't be sure. I've tried to forget as much about it as I can. When Bella's newly red eyes shot open and the movie ended, I sat quietly in my seat for another 10 minutes. There are things we can't unsee.
Breaking Dawn — Part 2
My phone had died about halfway through movie no. 4, so when the final half-hour break came before the finale, I was left with nothing but my thoughts and the three-song rotation I'd heard 50 times that day. Before last week, I had no idea who Youngblood Hawke was, but now I hate them and their music with every bit of my being. I didn't have a clock, but it was easy to tell we were getting closer by the volume of people in the theater. The numbers had grown over the course of the day, and by now, it was almost full. Another lone male viewer had joined my row, and by movie five, he seemed as interested as I'd become.
The knock on Breaking Dawn — Part 2 is similar to the issue people take with the others in the series: that it lacked appeal for those unfamiliar with the story. Lucky for me, I was about as familiar as someone can get in one day, and when the finale reached its ultimate battle, I was all-in. How that battle comes about is of only minor importance, mostly because it's an amalgamation of every other conflict in the first five movies. Wesley from 30 Rock and Demon Dakota Fanning bear down on the Cullens when they hear about a child vampire, which apparently are forbidden because they can't be controlled. When they come to find that the child is actually half-vampire, half-human, a few still want to have it out anyway.
There's no sense in spoiling it for those who haven't seen the movie, but we'll just say that the final battle, while not Helm's Deep, is pretty impressive. If I've ever seen more decapitations in one sitting, I'd have to spend some time thinking about when. More notable than the death toll was that I was affected by the demise of each character with whom I'd become familiar. Again, no spoilers, but seeing casualty no. 1's head roll across the snow was not something I was ready for.
I found myself happy for those who got happy endings. In the fourth movie, Jacob ends up saving the demon baby's life when he "imprints" on her. According to werewolf law, no werewolf can harm anyone another has imprinted on. And although this means Renesmee (I'd hate to see the other entries in the Big Book of Demon Baby Names) is spared, it also means that the 18-year-old werewolf is in love with an infant. It's not nearly as creepy as it sounds. The result is Bella, Edward, Jacob, and the demon baby all becoming one big, monster family.
Maybe it was the lack of clock or that I'd become delirious from all the poorly rendered werewolves and time in the forest, but the last movie hadn't seemed two hours long. As others have said, the final installment was clearly the best, but I'm not sure that would've mattered. Aside from my issues with New Moon, rarely had there been a moment all day when I felt like this was some sort of punishment. The appeal of the story had become clear sometime earlier in the day, and as the credits rolled and a shot of each actor from the series accompanied his or her name, I think I was as happy as anyone else to see the characters from earlier in the day. Applause came with most of them, but none louder than for Pattinson. I had to agree. After some early time on Team Jacob, it was hard not to be on Edward's side by the end of it all. They really were soulless mates, and there's just no messing with that.

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Now that pitchers and catchers have reported and all of the big players on the free agent market are signed, with exception to Kyle Lohse of course, it's time to take a look at which teams invested their money the most wisely. I'm not looking at players who signed minor league contracts, were extended before they actually hit free agency, or were traded for though – I'm only looking at guys who were signed as true major league free agents and the teams that signed them (even if some players did end up re-signing with the same team).
Believe it or not all 30 teams did manage to sign at least one free agent this winter, even though for fans of some teams it may not seem that way. The team that came away as being the most active in free agency was the Boston Red Sox with 10 free agents signed, although one of those players was their very own David Ortiz who did officially hit free agency but really wasn't going anywhere. The Chicago Cubs were the second busiest in free agency with nine signings, then the New York Yankees with seven, and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Rays round out our top five with six signings apiece.
There were 10 other teams that made either four or five signings and then the remaining half of the league made three or less. Obviously there's always the argument that it's quality and not quantity but in baseball an argument can also be made for strength in numbers. Of the five most active teams at signing major league free agents this winter who actually comes out on top?
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Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox made it a point to trade any player on their roster making a good chunk of change and was over the age of 30 to the Los Angeles Dodgers for James Loney, who has since moved on to the division rival Rays, and some prospects. This winter the Red Sox decided to try a different strategy; instead of signing players that were about to be out of their prime to long-term contracts worth boat loads of cash they instead opted to sign players who were already out of their primes for boat loads of cash but fewer years.
Uhhh…seems legit?
So the nearly $261 million dollars in future guaranteed contracts they saved themselves from by making that trade with the Dodgers – a little more than half of that went up in smoke. They've spent approximately $133.95 million on 10 players where their average age combined is 33.6 years old. Half of those players are actually 35 years of age or older and just one of them is currently under the age of 30, even though he'll turn 30 before the regular season begins.
While it's easy to say that the Red Sox did really well for themselves this winter by bringing in high character guys for the clubhouse that also have some talent, they also brought in a very veteran heavy group and the only good thing is that the longest commitment they made was for three years to Shane Victorino. Then again though, they really only had one direction to go after the calamity that was the 2012 season and that direction is up.
Chicago Cubs
The interesting thing, and probably most impressive thing – in my mind at least, about the Chicago Cubs off-season is that they lost 100 or more games for the first time in 46 years and everyone was expecting Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer to offer whatever it would take to sign Zack Greinke, Anibal Sanchez, AND Josh Hamilton. They are the Cubs after all and they have a history of trying to spend their way out of a bad overall system.
Not this winter though as they were able to avoid making that mistake without having a more solid foundation in place and instead chose to pick up some complimentary pieces. The biggest signing for them was starting pitcher Edwin Jackson who they signed to a four year, $52 million dollar deal and it's not as bad of a deal as some have made it out to be.
Jackson isn't an ace by any means but he's a guy who will benefit from staying in the National League and at worst he'll be a league average starter who can eat up between 180 and 200 innings a year and at his best he'll turn in a stretch of some pretty dominating performances. They could've spent that $52 million in far worse places than Jackson so I can't fault them for that. They also took a flyer on guys like Scott Feldman and Scott Baker with one year deals; two pitchers who many probably wouldn't be all that surprised if they each turned in decent to solid seasons, especially Baker if he's healthy.
Signing Scott Hairston to a two-year deal was a pretty shrewd move by Hoyer and one that I think could turn out pretty well for them. Hairston is a gritty player that plays hard and has a history for being one of those lead by example types. He may not dazzle you with a superb batting average or anything but he's decent in that department and has some good pop in his bat. Then the other pieces the Cubs signed are truly complimentary guys for the bench or the bullpen but useful nonetheless.
Man, I can't believe how much more strongly I feel about the Cubs off-season as I'm writing this. Before I was just kind of "oh, yeah they did alright" and now that I'm looking at it all over again I'm starting to think "oh wow, they did alright".
New York Yankees
I've already written about how I believe the New York Yankees time is up this year and their downfall is imminent. Granted, many writers every off-season talk about the supposed collapse of the Yankee Dynasty and it's been going strong for 10 years now; it never seems to end. I'm standing by my argument that the Yankees are a team on their way out, at least for 2013 and possibly 2014, and there's no point in rehashing all of that here. If you want to read my reasoning why then the link is there for the clicking.
The Yankees signed nine players, although four of those players were on the team in 2012. But they decided to take the strategy of counting on veterans to the max, as they usually seem to do, and I just don't know how much Andy Pettitte, Ichiro Suzuki, Travis Hafner, and Mariano Rivera have left in them. Hiroki Kuroda I'm on the fence about because I think he could prove to still be pretty reliable.
To their credit though, I do believe they'll end up looking awfully smart for signing relief pitcher David Herndon and I also don't think that Kevin Youkilis won't be as horrible as many feel he will – hell, he could very well save the Yankees season with his glove at each corner infield spot.
Arizona Diamondbacks
Thankfully this isn't a piece about the trades that took place this off-season because then it would be all about Kevin Towers' mishandling of the Justin Upton situation and also giving away pitching prospect Trevor Bauer for pennies on the dollar. Instead, this will only partially be about the one move that still doesn't make any sense and a few others that aren't so bad.
Everyone was left scratching their head when Towers signed outfielder Cody Ross to that three year, $26 million dollar contract just before Christmas. You were reading stories and tweets that went something like "oh my gosh, they have 79 outfielders!" or "but what about Upton, he's still there!" and so on and so forth. It was a near certainty that Towers was going to find someone to give him something in exchange for Upton that he liked, even after having the giant overpay from the Seattle Mariners taken off the table after Upton exercised his no-trade power.
What makes the Ross signing so unusual is that it feels more like a statement signing than anything else. A statement to who you wonder – maybe to Upton, maybe to the media, maybe to Towers himself – who knows. But the fact of the matter is that the Diamondbacks had plenty of outfielders that are major league ready before signing Ross and would have still had plenty of outfield options after trading Upton and not signing Ross.
Other than the Ross signing the other free agents that the team picked up were actually pretty good moves. Getting Brandon McCarthy on a two-year contract worth just under $16 million per year is genius because he could finally string together a 30 start season and be a dominant force in your rotation. Signing Cliff Pennington for two years and $5 million total was another smart move because Pennington, while not a star by any means, is more than worth the contract he got and will be very useful as a starter or coming off the bench. I even like the team signing third baseman Eric Chavez to a one-year deal because he's someone that can still provide some pop off the bench and has a great glove at the hot corner.
Tampa Bay Rays
Every winter it seems that the Rays make these mediocre signings and everyone laughs at them, or at least used to until they realized that this organization is full of evil geniuses, because how could they possibly win games with guys like Luke Scott, Fernando Rodney, and Carlos Pena – right?
Well, they're at it again and even though I know there's a method to their madness I'm still wondering exactly how they're going to win more games than last year with guys like Luke Scott and Roberto Hernandez (the pitcher formerly known as Fausto Carmona). With Scott likely at designated hitter and Hernandez, possibly, in the rotation (at some point) I do feel as if the Rays are losing their touch. But then you look at signings like Kelly Johnson, who could free Ben Zobrist up a little in the field, and James Loney who has a pretty solid glove at first base and you start to see that the Rays are doing their own thing again and it could very well work.
Kyle Farnsworth and Joel Peralta are probably the two most important signings they made as it will further solidify their bullpen and allow them to play to their strengths once more – pitching and defense. They barely spent $18 million dollars this winter and all but one of those contracts come off the books at the end of the season, talk about spending wisely and having those same resources available to do it all over again the following winter.
Of the five teams on this list I have to say that I believe the least in the moves the Yankees and Red Sox made. That's not to say that either will finish with a worse record than any other team on this list but I don't think the Yankees will continue to be able to squeeze what's left out of these aging veterans for another year and I don't believe that simply overhauling your clubhouse with high character guys will make up for the fact that you still signed a bunch of past your prime veterans in Boston.
The Cubs have probably done the most to help themselves this season with their free agent pickups, although I don't believe it'll be enough to stave off a last place finish in the NL Central now that the Houston Astros have moved on to the American League. With that said though, they are a team that has a solid foundation in place and with an uptick in production and growth from some of their younger players already on the big league club and those in the high-minors I could see them being a borderline playoff contender in 2014.
As far as the Diamondbacks and Rays are concerned – the Diamondbacks were a .500 team last season with a great deal of expectations they simply didn't live up to. They'll likely compete for a wild-card spot this season, even without Upton, but the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers are likely too much for them at the moment so the wild-card is their only hope. Then again, how much hope do they really have when there's likely just one wild-card spot up for grabs and they seem to be the weakest of the teams most likely to fight for it?
The Rays are the Rays and you can never count them out. We can make fun of some of the moves that they make each winter but we almost always end up looking silly as they coast to a 90+ win season. There will be plenty of competition for their division and a wild-card spot but they are a resilient team with one of the most forward thinking managers in all of baseball. Until they prove otherwise, I'm applauding any and all moves they make whether they make sense to me or not.


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IT IS, of course, fitting that the United Nations celebrate diversity. The hundreds of flags in front of itsheadquarters, and the 365 languages into which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights istranslated on an official UN website, are just two symbols of the institution's commitment to theworld's ethnic mosaic. But this week's Human Development Report, from the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP), takes the commitment to diversity further. Released each yearsince 1990, the Human Development Reports provide an update on the fight against poverty aroundthe world, each time with a new theme. This year's report ties two themes together, arguing thatrespect for diversity is integral to development. State-builders in countries like Iraq and Afghanistanwill no doubt be thumbing through the report with interest, in the hope of learning something abouthow to make fractious ethnic groups work together for prosperity. It also offers them an opportunity toshare their views: this year, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, contributed an essay.Diversity and development might seem to sit oddly together. But they are intimately linked, and thereport seeks to show that they are not related in the way many people assume. The UNDP's pressrelease says unambiguously that "there is no evidence that cultural diversity slows development", anddismisses the idea that there has to be a trade-off between respecting diversity and sustaining peace.Some of the world's richest and most peaceful countries are historically multi-ethnic, such asSwitzerland, Canada and Belgium. And most of the world's richest countries are now the destination ofimmigrants from around the world, making America, Britain and other wealthy nations hugely diverse.But there is some evidence that diversity has costs. In a recent book, "The Size of Nations" (seearticle), two economists show that managing ethnic diversity is expensive, as governments must dealwith the demands of groups competing for scarce resources. In the United States, a study has shownthat people are willing to pay more for services like education if they can live with people more likethem in ethnicity and class. In other words, people place a value on being with others like them. Multiethnicnations have been breaking apart recently (the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia); few countries havemerged during the same period, and those that have were ethnic mates (East and West Germany,North and South Yemen).
A quick look at the Human Development Index (HDI), released each year in the report, seems tosupport the idea that diversity has its costs. In the bottom 35 countries ranked as having "low humandevelopment", all but three are in vastly diverse Africa, where borders drawn by colonialists showed norespect for tribal, linguistic or religious identities. Meanwhile, while single-ethnicity states are rare (just30 countries in the world do not have a religious or ethnic minority that constitutes at least 10% of thepopulation), they are strongly represented at the top of the HDI: places like Norway, Sweden, theNetherlands, Japan, Ireland and Austria.One of the authors of the report, Stefano Pettinato, acknowledges that diversity can be a source ofproblems. But the report's intention, he says, is to reject the simple causal link that diversity hampersdevelopment. He points to rich countries that are also diverse, whether by history (Belgium,Switzerland, Canada) or massive immigration (America, most prominently). Yes, he says, ethnicityplays a role in the conflict and corruption that plague African development. But it is unscrupulouspoliticians who take advantage that are to blame—not diversity itself.The report recommends several political strategies for coupling diversity and development. One is"asymmetrical federalism"—the type of constitutional arrangement seen in Spain and Canada, whereregions dominated by a cohesive minority (like Québec or the Basque country) get special localgovernmentpowers that others do not. This both recognises the region's distinct identity and binds itto the central state. After all, the authors point out, most people in Spain's minority regions seethemselves as both Spanish and Basque (or Catalan or Galician)—not just one or the other. Givingthose overlapping identities constitutional form can be one way to stabilise a diverse country.However, it can also give rise to resentment among the majority—be they anglophone Canadians orCastilian Spaniards—over the privileges of minorities.The authors of the report argue for several other policies to protect and promote what they call"cultural liberty", with certain caveats. For example, they support affirmative action, which, they say,has led to an increase in the number of black professionals in America, and has helped ethnic Malaysin Malaysia and various minorities in India as well. But they lightly question the wisdom of letting suchpolicies become entrenched, asking for example whether the children of affirmative action'sbeneficiaries should themselves be eligible for a helping hand.The authors also propose treating "cultural goods" differently from other kinds when discussing trade.They give some of the oft-cited statistics about the cultural dominance of a few countries—forexample, that America accounts for 85% of films screened worldwide. Their assumption is that, left toraw market forces, products from smaller cultures would be drowned out of the market. But ratherthan proposing restrictions on, say, importing American films, the authors propose allowinggovernments to take positive action to boost the production of their local fare. (Some tradeagreements treat such support as an illegal subsidy.)While the report is full of feel-good language and social-science jargon, like "participation exclusion"and "living mode exclusion", it is an interesting first stab at marrying diversity and development, twosubjects not often found side-by-side. The report is, by its own admission, short on data about justhow bad the problem of cultural exclusion is around the world. But it estimates, probably not toowildly, that one in seven people in the world is a member of some kind of disadvantaged minority.When engineering a new constitution, founding fathers in Iraq, Afghanistan and other nations underconstruction, as well as those who would advise them, would do well to take the suggestions of thisreport to heart.
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Havana-based group Sierra Maestra is one of the foremost bands performing the Cuban son style, which enjoyed its height of popularity in the '20s and '30s. Though son experienced significant revival and renewed international interest thanks to the late-'90s Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, Sierra Maestra gave the music a new lease on life as early as the late '70s. Headed by Juan d'Marcos Gonz�lez, the nine-piece outfit came together in 1976 for a performance at the University of Havana, the musicians' alma mater. Utilizing traditional instrumentation including tres, guitar, bongo, guiro, trumpet, and voice, joined by congas, maracas, and electric base, the musicians named their group after the mountain range where son was born. Band leader Gonz�lez was joined by Daniel Ramos Alayo (trumpet), Carlos Gonz�lez (bongo), Carlos Pisseaux (guiro), Alberto Vald�s (maracas and voice), Luis B�rgaza (voice), Jos� Antonio Rodr�guez (guitar and voice), Eduardo Himely (bass and conga), and Alejandro Su�rez (clave and voice). Through regular performance and television appearances, Sierra Maestra became a national favorite, winning national awards in their first three years in operation. The band's debut recording, Sierra Maestra Lleg� con el Guanajo Relleno, earned silver status in the year of its release, 1981. Popular critical reception and widespread popularity opened doors for international touring in the early '80s. Following their sophomore release, Y Son As� (1982), Sierra Maestra toured all over Europe, appearing at important festivals in Sweden, France, Germany, and Spain. Starting with their 1994 release Dundunbanza!, Sierra Maestra's recordings soon became available to international audiences. Their discography grew significantly throughout the '90s and 2000s, including better than a dozen titles by 2006's Son: Soul of a Nation. The musicians' commitment to the repertoire of artists such as Arsenio Rodr�guez and the compositions of their own members earned them a reputation as both artful custodians of a tradition and brilliant innovators as well. ~ Evan C. Gutierrez, Rovi
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Book Review: The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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I have seen most of the coffee-table art-and-making-of books on the animated features of the past three or four years, but the giant (12.6" x 11.2"; over one inch thick and weighing over five pounds) The Fairest One of All is something else again. It would be inaccurate to say that it is the same kind of making-of book, since it does not have the same total access to the production while the production was going on that the books documenting the contemporary films do. But the modern books are also handicapped in that they are about original stories, and timed to end with that feature's release. The Fairest One of All goes back centuries to the origins of the Snow White folk tale, and then devotes almost a hundred pages to telling what Disney has done with the characters in the 75 years after the movie was finished.
The Fairest One of All, published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the movie's release, is divided into three parts. "Before 1934", pages 12 to 27, presents the earliest forms of the Snow White folk tale, going back hundreds of years before the Grimm Brothers' version. (Did you know that in the original 1812 edition of the tale, recorded as the Grimm Brothers heard it told, Snow White's oppressor was her mother, not her stepmother? And that it was Wilhelm Grimm himself who changed the story in later editions to make it more palatable to parents and children, when he realized that their book was selling more as a book of fantasies for children than for scholars of Germanic folk tales?) But this part concentrates mostly on the other dramatic productions of Snow White before the Disney feature, from 19th and early 20th century stage plays to the live-action movies of the 1910s and 1920s and the Fleischer Studios' Snow-White starring Betty Boop of 1933.
Part 2, "The Making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", runs from pages 28 to 233. This is the meat of the volume. Kaufman traces in detail, with dozens of pieces of production art to illustrate his points, how the film progressed from its beginning in 1934 until its premiere in 1937.


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Join us on Saturday, February 23rd and Sunday, February 24th as the Calgary Public Library presents the Mind, Body, Spirit Weekend. It is a weekend full of insight, rejuvenation, and inspiration held in the John Dutton Theatre at the Central Library. Over the next four weeks we will interview four of the nine presenters. This week we have Anne Walton, who will be presenting Compassionate Communication on Saturday, February 23rd from 10 - 11 am. If you missed the first interview don't worry you can still see it on our Good Life blog. For more information on our Mind, Body, Spirit Weekend and to register please see our program page.
Compassionate communication is also known as nonviolent communication. Where does the name come from?
Marshall Rosenberg, the man who developed the process, uses the word "nonviolent" in the sense that Gandhi used it, the place where my heart is free of blame, judgment and criticism. My understanding is that the term comes from the Sanskrit word "ahimsa" which can be translated as "nonviolence" however a fuller, more accurate translation would be "the force of love in action"
Compassionate communication is a non-judgmental approach to communication, what makes it unique?
Compassionate Communication focuses on needs and values. It suggests that everything we do is the best we know how to meet our needs in any moment and that needs are the direct cause of our feelings. For example, if I feel upset, it's not because you said "blah, blah, blah" but because I have a need for consideration, inclusion, mutuality (whatever is important to us in that moment). People describe needs in various ways, one that works for me is that it's life energy flowing through us. Also, on the surface Compassionate communication is a set of simple and effective communication tools, on a deeper level it's way of living life more consciously.
Many relationships experience conflict because of a breakdown in communication. What impact can compassionate communication have on one's relationship and life? How have you seen an impact in your own life?
Compassionate communication gives us the tools to check in with ourselves in any moment and see if what we're about to do or say will lead to our needs being met. It also gives us tools to make a guess about how another person is right now and to express ourselves in a way that will lead to connection, understanding, and communication. In my own life I've noticed such a transformation in me – I'm much more compassionate with myself than I used to be. I'm also much more able to hear what's going on for another person and have the language to check this out in a way that won't be intrusive or triggering.
Can you share some practical compassionate communication tips?
Any time we're triggered or upset, we can pause and take a breath and connect with what's going on inside us. For example I could say to myself "right now, I'm pretty sad and I would like some understanding for what this situation is like for me". Just the simple act of taking a deep breath supports us in gaining access to more inner resources (physiologically this facilitates a shift from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex). Then once I'm in a more resourceful state, I might be able to connect with my intention, perhaps ask myself "is what I'm about to say or do, in alignment with my values and likely to lead to what I'm wanting?" Getting to a more resourceful state also enables me to consider what another's needs are in the moment.
Anne Walton is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication who finds deep meaning in sharing these tools with others in Canada and the US. Anne's other passion is doing comedy so she loves generating fun and laughter in her trainings!
Thanks for your comment Sydney. We're really looking forward to having Anne present too!
I'm so looking forward to this event. Anne is an incredible person; generous in all she does and a brilliant teacher.