Neural pruning

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Neural pruning is the process of removing neurons that are no longer used or useful in the brain.  Don’t try it at home!  It’s a natural process in the brain that happens at different developmental stages.  Children’s brains grow rapidly and in the flood of new learning, neural pathways are created that are useful in some stages but not others.  At the initial stages of acquiring new skills, neurons grow thickly and rapidly.  Neuroscientist Donald Hebb is often quoted as saying “Neurons that fire together wire together.”  But eventually, as some behaviours are found to be more useful and used more often, some of the pathways die out.  It’s this process of strengthening and “pruning” that allows us to continue learning and maturing through our lifetime.

Dan Siegel writes in The Mindful Brain:

When we focus our attention in specific ways, we are activating the brain’s circuitry.  This activation…

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Sense

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Plain Grass

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Rain Roses

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Geranium Splash

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Sense Sea

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Strylitzia

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Ancient Lake

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Bouganvilla

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Early Spring

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Somewhere in Time

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Thanksgiving

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Every noble effort of participation in in the dance of life reminds me of seashells. The being living inside is attuned to the spiral of the cosmos – perpetual in motion spinning, attracting, growing – doing what she is  to do – one day emerging from beauty, displaying beauty, an artifact of love in her wake. It’s deep sensing, it’s grander than thought alone, it’s home.

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Creating beauty in your own world

by your own hand

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for your own joy

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EARTH 24/7

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EARTH 24/7

Joy and trash walk hand in hand on most of Earth’s beaches in 2015.

Scientists scooped up sea water, extracted the plastic bits, melted them and made a chair.

When you’re out in Nature on the beach or in the forests be prepared to pick up debris even if it’s “not yours”.  You can make a difference. Then in a couple of generations humans will live in love with Earth and take exquisite care of her! Because toxic debris laden waterways is really evidence that human beings have not fallen in love with the magnificient Earth they call home. That’s a sad story to live 24/7. She’s all we have!

EARTH BEACH TRASH

Beauty and Being Hive Friendly

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beauty and beesI was placing a flat of freshly planted succulent cuttings on the greenhouse bench when this color caught me. I dashed for my Canon. Enthralled by the scintillating shades in this epiphylim bloom I was ready to click the button when a bee agreed and buzzed in for pollen. Bees are beauty builders. Bees feed us and sometimes bust up a picnic.

True: To make one pound of honey bees need to visit at least 1 million flowers and fly approximately 50,000 miles. The nectar collected is then evaporated by the wings of 50,000 to 70,000 worker bees that make up a hive at peak season. When the honey is ready only 18% of the original water remains; any more and it would ferment. Let that thought enter your awareness the next time you reach for a spoonful of honey and be in sweet awe.

True: Divine genius is illumined light years beyond our human imagination. bees, honey, garden When you plant, be brilliant and, plant bee friendly. Source plants from organic producers. Big box garden stores are selling “bee friendly” plants that have systemic pesticides, neonicotinoids, that are higly toxic and likely the cause of colony collapse. We are in this together. 

Without bees it’ll be bye bye beauty. color therapy Look closely soften your focus and you will experience all the colors of the chakras generously and wonderously radiating from this one bloom. From the red root to the violet crown and white light. Look long enough and you may even feel a shift in your own energy field. Feel blessed. You are a blessing.