has anyone had any experience with human givens therapy?
someone i know is thinking of trying it as a treatment for insomnia.
i looked on a few websites but didn't feel comfortable with some of the things i was reading, although the only thing i could put my finger on was that they knock all other forms of treatment saying that theirs is the only one that works.
Gadget,
I've never heard of this therapy until you mentioned it. Have you tried looking through the books on Amazon?
It sounds like just another modality. Doctors, no matter how many letters they have after their names, have favorites and opinions like everyone else, and this is probably what you're seeing when you come across the "this approach is all you need"-types of pages. What parts of it aren't you comfortable with?
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she was only in the hospital part of the day.
it is amazing how quickly they kick you out of the hospital nowadays.. she is fine, a little groggy yet, but should be back to normal within the week.. jeff
Glad she's on the mend. Being sick is the pits.
Tell her we said, "Get well NOW!"
at conventions especially, hand clapping annoyed me to no end.
the first day i was excited and really in the business of clapping and silently condemning those around me who didn't do so.
i even condemned those who i thought did not clap enthusiastically enough for my tastes.
I always thought it was funny when someone would try to start a clap and it didn't work - especially when they kept clapping louder and harder trying to get the momentum going. It was even worse when, after that attempt didn't work, they'd keep trying at every slight nuance in the talk until they got a real round of applause going. I always expected one of the brothers on stage to break down one day and finally say, "Look, I'm trying to talk here, will you quit it?"
i have just talked with the wtbts service department at 718-560-5000.. you can contribute for hurricane katrina relief efforts through your local kingdom hall and put your donation in the contribution box marked for the world wide work.
you may also send donations directly to the branch office... to the brooklyn address.
donations should be marked for the world wide work and not specificically reserved for relief efforts.
If it's marked for the WWW, they can use any of the "leftovers" any way they like. Specifically earmarking and properly accounting for funds would require taking people away from the WWW and creating a proper committee to handle disaster relief issues for as long as there are funds/donations specifically intended for those events. With this current set-up, once they determine that the crisis has "passed", they're free to divert the cash to other things. I wonder if noting on the checks what the money is supposed to be for would obligate them legally to be accountable to donors.
i'm glad god never granted my "wish" for a husband while i was still in the org.
i'd be hurtin' a lot more right now if i was married/involved.
There are two Mormons in front of my door right now, and I'm wearing only a T-shirt (no bottom).For a second I thought of opening the door and engaging them in a Bible-based discussion...
Hilarious, Leolaia. I almost wish you did it, too. I'm also glad I didn't attempt to go to Bethel as I'd planned. Something told me that I'd be horribly unprepared for the real world if I did, that I needed to reassure myself that I could support myself and that if I went, I'd be running away from finding out what it really meant to be an adult.
i'm glad god never granted my "wish" for a husband while i was still in the org.
i'd be hurtin' a lot more right now if i was married/involved.
I'm glad God never granted my "wish" for a husband while I was still in the Org. I'd be hurtin' a lot more right now if I was married/involved.
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this bozo is the perfect example of clueless pointy haired boss.
when the political fallout hits, i hope he dusts off his reume'...... try not to let your jaw hit the ground when he talks about "rumors and anecdotal stories".. http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgcode=atc&showdate=01-sep-2005&segnum=1&mediapref=wm&getunderwriting=1
He sounded like he'd never heard of the convention center.
I wish I hadn't eaten lunch right before listening to that...
ok, so when i get a little down, i have a tendency to purchase animals.
the difficulties with my family and my leaving the org have been weighing on me.
yesterday, i purchased two blonde dwarf hamsters, both female.. the one is a sweetheart.
I read last night that dwarf hamsters have a tendency to revert after they've been tamed if they don't get a lot of interaction - something to do with the short amount of time during which they've been domesticated. So far, the girls haven't tried to kill each other and seem to occassionally groom each other. I've got a couple of ideas to try out on Cujo before I chuck her off the balcony. (No, I wouldn't actually do that - it wouldn't work anyway because she'd have a deathgrip on my finger.)
If I succeed in taming the shrew, you guys will be the first to hear the momentous news!
Apparently, I've lost mine. Ever since I "came into my own", so to speak, I've been accused of being disrespectful when I'm very consciously trying to be calmly and respectfully assertive. I'm also no longer interested in lulling people into a false sense of security, so that may have something to do with it as well.
ive thought about posting this for a good few weeks, and finally decided to now the initial upset and outrage have calmed down in me.
hopefully i will be more objective in my post, and more robust to take some constructive critisism.. i have been divorced 7 years, since my daughter was 1.
50% of the blame was mine, definately.
I used to get a very similar reaction around people. It most often occured when I feared the other person was capable of witholding something from me that I needed or deeply wanted. This was not limited to physical things; when someone was emotionally distant or unavailable, I had problems because I knew they would not attempt to understand my perspective and would likely ignore/invalidate my feelings and my right to those feelings. I looked to certain individuals to confirm the legitimacy of my emotions instead of simply accepting myself and my feelings as they are. In other words, I was giving away my power to these particular people. It took years to realize what I was doing. I also had an underlying fear that people in general weren't safe and would hurt me without warning.
