http://rscottshanksjr.com R. Scott Shanks, Jr. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:01:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had no idea that this was frightening to me, but I slumped with relief of tension when I read comments on Sight Unseen (published about ten days ago on Pseudopod). Given that this is obviously masterbatory, I'll toss off behind the cut. Takes from the reader's forum: [...]It had an ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=760 -- is available to your willing ear as Pseudopod, the Sound of Horror http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=759 So.  I am become illuminated by the processes of stress.  Briefly, as I've another meeting to attend: Stress begets angst. Angst acts as an obstacle in the path of correct action. Suppress the angst by role-playing that it doesn't exist. Suppression of emotional response begets stress. With the suppression of the angst, it is possible to dispassionately act ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=758 When I'm feeling pleasant, all things in order and making progress in the world, I tend to hum. After a bit, left to my own devices, that will progress to a sort of un-hip scat, and eventually I can be expected to burst out in a line or two ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=757 So. Without anything in the way of explanation, here are some webutiae of the spiritual significance of bats. From Phylameana: The bat totem can trigger change or transformation. Its visit can be a warning that change will soon occur and not to be afraid. Sometimes the bat is a symbol for ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=756 Sunday, I attended the Rite to Write workshop by the glamorous, clever, and VERY energizing Jen Violi. It's difficult to say whether the workshop was healing using writing or writing using healing...either way, it would have likely been beyond me a year ago, as I had some issues with ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=752 This hypnotherapy stuff has had immediate and far-reaching, damned near comprehensive, results. That isn't, in my experience, how any kind of mental hygiene works. Normally, one talks things out until several things fall into place: Define the situation Determine what actions are creating non-optimal results Recognize the stimulus that provokes actions Consider ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=749 I write the words Tracing paths of golden pollen on the page I write in beauty Beauty in the sentence before me Beauty in the sentence behind me Beauty on the next page Beauty on the page before And in beauty will I edit And in beauty will I edit ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=748 Interesting. New things keep popping up. Nothing traumatic or world-shaking, but sort of ... pervasive. Apparently, what I've done is go to the foundation of many of my behaviors, lifted the edifice, and pulled out the chunk of gravel that was caught under the sill. When you put ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=745 I'm just going to name anything to do with this sorting-out process related to the hypotherapy "Trilby (variable)". It's likely to be highly internally oriented, poorly explained, and easily skippable. So. I'm wondering how much of my current amiable aimlessness has to do with the fact that, until recently, ... http://rscottshanksjr.com/?p=744
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