Dear At,
a warm welcome back to the list, At.
>It was his first
>experience of a "environmental shock". The effects of the shock
>only begin to appear when you are back at home. After a day or
>so you become incredibly tired in body and mind.
I can feel a littlebit of this shock within myself after reading your
mail. It is not the first time, that I hear about the situation in Africa
and not the first warning, that it will have a severe impact on the rest
of the world soon. But this still makes me tired. It is not that I fear
the impact, I just feel too small und too helpless.
In another context (I think somewhen in the thread "It hurts"), but still
within the "wave" of the essentiality fruitfulness (connect-beget), you
warned how hurting it may turn out to be for children to learn to ask
questions freely.
Thus there is a need to protect oneself effectively. As you already
mentioned while introducing the essentiality fruitfulness: People have
invented many means to avoid destructive connections. While thinking about
protection, I think we can learn a lot by looking at the art of Aikido:
Give a hurting intention an immediate feedback, that makes clear without
hurting the other, that the attack was unsuccessfull. Then a dialogue may
follow to establish a contructive connection.
I am wondering, what you think about the issue of protection.
Liebe Gruesse
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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