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Bonding As Transcendent Attunement

Bonding as Transcendent Attunement

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Michael

Please don’t read on the screen. Download and Print the PDF Abstract There is a powerful force, a channel of direct communication that informs nonverbally, triggering the awakening of insight and latent capacities embedded in every new human being. Why ...

Taiming The Dragon

Taming the Dragon Within

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Michael

Marshall Rosenberg’s core principles of nonviolent communication are sound. Personal conflict arises when needs (and their underlying feelings) are not being met. We then find ourselves in one of two positions: frustrated because our needs are not being met or ...

Can You Feel My Heart Sing

Can you feel our hearts singing?

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Michael

I find it challenging to keep current with Carly’s explosive development, three years and two months young and counting. Recall, 700 neurons per second, each connecting with thousands of others is the rate of brain growth the early years – ...

Mad Moments

Mad Moments

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Michael

Carly sat in the dry riverbed scratching an imagined icon in the sand with a stick. “It is getting late and I need to go back home,” I said twice. “No,” she said in her bossy-mean way. “OK, by-by,” I ...

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Home Base

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Michael

The player steps up to home base. While at the plate, he or she is perfectly safe. From this position of safety they swing the bat and hopefully hit the ball. The moment they leave home base, they are at ...

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Surrendering to Carly’s Time

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Michael

Our adult world is overflowing with highly complex and compounded abstractions. At thirty-months and counting Carly’s world is still very concrete, sensory and in constant movement. There is inherent conflict in these two paradigms: Carly time and adult time. We ...

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