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A little reminder of why I understand you ~ Paradigm Shift

Submitted by Kailashana2 on Thu, 2011-05-12 15:01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlRK1vqcuvg

I think we all need to be reminded that we're not alone and the world isn't against us.

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Arrow

Thu, 2011-05-12 19:02

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as part of orientation for my last job (psychiatric ER). Certainly, much of what affects us is not about us but can, subsequently, be influenced by us. It can be a difficult line to walk--addressing problem behavior but not becoming enraged by it.

P.S. That reminds me of this video. I had the opportunity to participate in this. Very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1-6RIQ3U8

Kailashana2

Fri, 2011-05-13 07:30

Thanks for the feedback, Arrow. I was reared by a mother who told me stories of her life, with her stories I understood how we don't understand many things because we have never walked in someone else's shoes.

Wonderful work this *Shakespeare behind bars*. Congratulations.

A couple of quotes that really struck home for me "if you can't touch a heart, all you have is an educated convict" and "by playing someone else, I have learned to be myself".

There was also a program in place (I'd have to dig where and when) in a maximum security prison for meditation. Even though the new warden seemed to think the program needed to be cut, the inmates who had formed a bond, kept the meditation circle going.

This says a lot about the world in which we live, poverty and the lack of intervention by society (now all social programs are cut cut cut) is a breeding ground for youth gone awry. The answer of course, build new jails. That lines pockets.

(Somehow, during our early lives, many of us were thwarted and/or never found the gifts of the heart, and spirit....our creativity and so the only one that can be *developed* is our destructiveness, I think.)

Thanks again for sharing and the dialogue, Arrow. I commend your work, one of my closest friend's neice is about to retire as a social worker at a prison here, she has always fought for (and won) programs that foster creativity, including poetry, music, art, reading at the prison. I wonder of this brave new world in which we live, and with judges on the payroll for new juvenile detention facilities, what *might* that child be/have been with a little bit of positive reinforcement and a society that actually cares.

I shudder to think what it is that killed the young heart, full of life and spirit and dulled it.c

~Anna

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Kailashana2

Fri, 2011-05-13 11:25

Well, stated, Ian!

We never truly know ourselves let alone another in whose image we create our flights of fancy, but those *glasses* enable us to see one another as human beings, doing the best we can in the moment at hand. That type of compassion goes a long long way, it literally paves the road to good intentions.

~A

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