#so less generational trauma and more.. generational traditions that get performed by the majority

[sialater18]

Not really because it was never confirmed that she did do that. It’s a headcanon the fandom just runs with

Are ya'll ever haunted by the fact that alicent essentially did the same thing to Aegon what her own father otto did to her? Forced to get married and have kids young? The generational trauma here...

[americanlasereyehospitals]

SMILE Eye Surgery | American Laser Eye Hospitals

As the demand for cutting-edge, minimally invasive techniques for correction of vision rises, the SMILE eye surgery technique popularly known as Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) techniques has come to a rescue. This novel strategy integrates accuracy, security, and swift recuperation, thus offering a patient easy and convenient method of correcting refractive errors. At American Laser Eye Hospitals, the quality and care with which SMILE eye surgery is carried out makes it the best eye surgery in hyderabad quality wise for most patients looking for vision correction.

An Introduction to Understanding SMILE Eye Surgery

SMILE eye surgery also called the small incision lenticule extraction eye surgery is a specific laser vision correction that falls mainly under myopia correction operation and in rare cases astigmatism laser operation. The main difference is that in SMILE surgery no corneal flap is made as in traditional LASIK surgery. What this means is that a special Femtosecond laser is used to penetrate the cornea and create a small lens shaped tissue called lenticule, within the cornea. This lens is sucked out through a small incision which alters the shape of the dome cornea corrects the vision without making a flap. Hence enhancements that shin SMILE are uncomplicated procedures, discomfort associated with the process is lower, and healing is much faster and complications are less.

Why SMILE Eye Surgery at American Laser Eye Hospitals is the Right Option?

Skilled Surgeons

The American Laser Eye Hospitals has a team of qualified eye surgeons who are skilled in performing SMILE eye surgery. They have a good number of years in that field and have done numerous procedures. Therefore, they guarantee good results to all patients with the safest practices possible.

You Can Expect The Most Advanced Equipment

We are always upgrading our tools and facilities by investing in the newest technology such as the most recent femtosecond lasers and diagnostic imaging systems in order to carry out the SMILE procedure with the highest degree of accurateness. Between the sophisticated equipment we use, it incorporates aiding in the precision as well as making it possible for us to customize each procedure according to the person’s eye anatomy increasing the success rate of the surgery.

Assured Recovery & Comfort Of The Patients

At American Laser Eye Hospitals, the treatment of patients and the provision of their comfort is very important. Focused assistance through preoperative consultations and postoperative follow-ups is given to patients, making sure at every point, they are aware and comfortable throughout the entire process of their SMILE procedure.

Faster Healing with Less Risk

In the case of SMILE eye surgery, regular activities can be resumed by the patients as soon as in one or two days because the recovery is faster. At the same time, the invasiveness of this procedure is so low that it cuts down dry eye syndrome and its other complications which makes it preferable for a lot of patients.

Advantages of SMILE Eye Surgery 

Less Traumatic: SMILE entails lesser surgical trauma than other surgical approaches, owing to the fact that there is only a small cut on the eye which also aims to spare most of the biomechanical properties of the eye. 

Decreased Incidence of Dry Eyes: Contrary to LASIK, which requires the use of a corneal flap, less nerve is disturbed during SMILE making it rare to get dry eyes after the procedure.

Short Healing Time: Improvement of vision occurs more rapidly for the majority of patients, typically within a few hours after the procedure, who are also able to return to their normal routines within 24-48 hours.

Stable Effects: With SMILE, most patients are able to maintain a clear vision with no use of contact lenses, or glasses for a long period of time. 

Who can Undergo SMILE Eye Surgery? 

Generally, the most suitable candidates for the procedure would have the following characteristics:

Are 18 years or older and have had a stable vision for at least 12 months.

Possess a normal anterior surface of the cornea and adequate corneal thickness.

Have myopia or low to moderate astigmatism.

Want a durable vision correction treatment that does not involve the creation of a flap.

A comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s eyes at American Laser Eye Hospitals will help ascertain if one is a candidate for SMILE eye surgery. Our specialists assess the eye health and vision needs of every patient and advise the best possible approach based on their circumstances.

Schedule Your Consultation Now

For this reason, SMILE eye surgery at American Laser Eye Hospitals is enhanced by the wealth of skill, technology and attention to patients who want their vision corrected. Quality is non negotiable and service delivery is exceptional as our team aims at ensuring that all patients have an easy and fulfilling experience while seeking clear vision.

If, however, you want to get SMILE eye surgery in Hyderabad, book an appointment with the professionals at American Laser Eye Hospitals today. We bring the latest advancements in eyesight correction procedure, and give you a liberating experience of life with no glasses or contact lenses.

[drramankant]

Demystifying Arthroscopic Surgery: A Closer Look at Minimally Invasive Procedures

Arthroscopic surgery — that term in itself is quite intimidating. But the fact remains that it is a minimally invasive surgery. It is used for diagnosing and treating a host of joint-related issues. Like the expert at Arthroscopic Rotator cuff repair in South Delhi opines, the surgery offers you several benefits and has been rated as one of the major surgical interventions.

Is arthroscopic surgery a major surgery?

The arthroscopic surgery is a minimally invasive surgery and is not a major surgery per se, but when it comes to the treatment options it offers, it can be considered one. It involves making small incisions and inserting a small tube to look into the insides of a joint.

When you compare it to the major surgical interventions, which may need larger incisions, this surgery does not come with any major trauma. It also minimizes the problems with the adjoining tissues. The risk of any infection is also reduced. You would also witness a faster recovery. However, whether the surgery is considered major or minor can only be dependent on the purpose of the procedure, according to a senior expert at the Best Frozen Shoulder Treatment in West Delhi.

What Happens During the Procedure?

When undertaking the arthroscopic surgery, you will be placed under the local or general anesthesia. The surgeon will then make small incisions in the joint and inserts the arthroscope to view the interior of the joint. This will provide a real-time, detailed view of the joint’s structures. As the Best Frozen Shoulder Treatment Doctors In South Delhi informed, they can get access to the ligaments, cartilage, and tendons.

The surgeon also performs multiple procedures with the specialized instruments. These procedures would include repairing damaged tissue, removing loose fragments, or taking tissue samples. These procedures are precise, and the issues inside the joint can address the issues with the minimal disruption.

What About Recovery?

One of the major advantages that you stand to gain with the arthroscopic surgery is that you will get access to a faster recovery. You will find access to a shorter recovery period when you compare it to the other traditional open surgery options. Most of the patients can go home on the same day. You may also leave just after a short stay in the hospital after the surgery.

The recovery from the arthroscopic surgery is much faster and less painful. Since it involves smaller incisions, they tend to heal faster. You can indulge in physical therapy exercises and return to your normal activities in a faster and quicker manner. Of course, we will not be able to give a specific timeline for recovery, as it will be dependent on the exact health conditions you might be going through, so says a senior consultant at Arthroscopic Treatment for weight lifters in South Delhi.

Which Joints are most often examined with arthroscopy?

The arthroscopy surgery can be performed on almost all major joints in your body. However, some of the joints may be more commonly examined. Some of the joints that may be operated on and treated using the arthroscopy surgery would include

· Knee — This is the most common joint that is operated using the arthroscopy procedure. It is used for treating a wide range of joint issues, such as ligaments, damaged cartilage, and meniscus injuries.

· Shoulder — A few issues you can treat would include rotator cuff tears, labral tears, and impingement syndrome.

· Hip — This can help you fix the issues such as hip labral tears, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), and other hip joint issues

· Elbow and wrist — You would find them offering treatment options such as such as tennis elbow or wrist ligament injuries.

These are just a few examples. The number and exact joints that you can work on can only be decided by your healthcare provider.

If you are in Delhi and looking for the best Arthroscopy Sports injury Specialists in South Delhi, you can get in touch with Dr. Raman Kant Aggarwal at the Shoulder Doc. Considered to be one of the foremost names in the Reverse and anatomical Shoulder replacements, you would find them offering one of the excellent degrees of service quality. Visit the Shoulder Doc clinic once and find for yourself.

Want to know more? You can visit our LinkedIn Profile : DrRamankant-LinkedIn

[sarita-daniele]

Hi, angel! Hope you're doing alright 💓 (hola ángel! También hablo español :) ) I was wondering if you could give some advices in starting out in an arts career?

Hola amigx, ¡perdón que nunca vi tu mensajito! I’m not on my Tumblr very often and definitely forget to check my messages. Luckily my favorite causita @luthienne told me you’d messaged me! 

I don’t know what arts discipline you’re in, so feel free to let me know if the advice I have doesn’t apply to you (and ignore it!). There are so many ways to build an arts career, but I’m happy to share some things I’ve learned through trial and error along the way. 

(Outrageously long post below break!)

Educate yourself in arts technique, but also study widely. 

Techniques are important in art, but only as important as the concepts behind them. When I was younger, I wowed people by drawing near-photographic portraits, but that technical talent and skill alone couldn’t make me a professional artist. Memorable artwork has not just a how, but a why. It isn’t just the object but the story behind the object, and the meaning of the object in the world. Art is about what interests you, what makes you think, what you most value and want to change in this world. So as you build an arts career, learn the techniques behind drawing, woodworking, casting, writing, music-making, whatever your discipline is, but take time, if you can, to also study history, sociology, anthropology, ecology, linguistics, politics, or whatever else you’re drawn to conceptually. Study as widely as you can. 

The studio art program I went through (a public university in the US) was very technique-forward; we signed up for classes according to technique, like printmaking or small metals, learned those techniques, completed technique-based assignments. Then I did a one-term exchange at arts university in the UK that was very concept-forward. We had no technical courses, just exhibition deadlines, and what mattered in critique was the concept. Both of these schools had their strengths and flaws, but what I learned was that, to be a practicing artist, I needed both technique and concepts that I genuinely cared about and could stand behind. If I could go back and change anything, I would probably take fewer studio courses (after graduating, I couldn’t afford access to a wood shop, metal shop, or expensive casting materials, and lost many of those skills) and more courses in sociology, Latin American studies, linguistics, ecology, anthropology, etc., because my artwork today centers on social justice, racial justice, Latinx stories and histories, educational access and justice, the politics of language, and community ethics. 

And please know that whenever I talk about seeking an education, I’m not talking solely about institutional spaces. College career tracks in the arts (BFA, MFA, etc., much less high-cost conservatory programs) are not accessible to everyone and aren’t the only way to establish an arts career. You can study technique and learn about the world using any educational space accessible to you: nonprofits that offer programming in your community, online resources, Continuing Education programs. And of course, self-education: read as much as you possibly can!

Know the value of your story. 

I come from a Cuban/Peruvian family and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. My father’s family fled political violence surrounding the Cuban Revolution and came to the U.S. when he was a teenager. My mother was born in Brooklyn to Peruvian parents on work visas and moved back to Lima in her childhood. I grew up with these two cultures present and deeply embedded in our household, in our language, our food, our sense of humor, our sense of history. And yet, some residual assimilation trauma still affected me. I drifted towards the most American things, the whitest things, English authors and Irish music, in part because I enjoyed them but also because those were the things I saw valued in society. I wanted to fit in, wanted to be unique but not different, wanted to prove that I could navigate all spaces. The reality of marginalized identities in America is that our country tells us our identities are only valuable when they can be seen as exotic, while still kept inferior to the dominant, white American narrative (note that this “us” is a general statement, not meant to make assumptions about how you identify or what country you live in). 

But as an artist, all I have is my story, and who I am. I wasn’t willing to look at it directly. For years, I avoided doing so. It turns out, though, that I couldn’t actually begin my career until I reckoned with myself and learned to value everything about myself. To fully acknowledge my story, my history, my cultural reality, my sense of language, and my privileges. So I encourage young artists to look always inward, to ask questions about themselves, their families, and what made them who they are. 

The reason for doing this is to understand the source from which you make art.  Sometimes, however, for marginalized artists, the world warps this introspection into a trap, pigeonholing us into making art only “about” our identities, because that work is capital-I-Important to white audiences who want to tokenize our traumas. This is the white lens, and if anything, I try to understand myself as deeply as I can so that I can make art consciously for my community, not for that assumed white audience. 

Know that your career doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, or like anything you’ve envisioned up to this point. 

As a high schooler I imagined that a life in the arts meant me in a studio, drawing and making, selling my work, getting exhibitions near and far, and gaining recognition. It was a solitary vision, one with a long history in the arts, rooted in the idea of individual genius. My career ended up completely different. Today, my arts projects involve teaching, collaborating, collecting interviews and oral histories, and creating public installations, rarely in traditional galleries or museums. 

As you work towards an arts career, figure out what does and doesn’t work for you: the kind of art you like and don’t like, the kinds of spaces that feel comfortable and those that don’t. I always thought I wanted to be part of traditional galleries, so I got a job working in a high-end art gallery in Boston during my grad program. Once in that space, however— even though I found the space calming and the work beautiful— I realized that there was something that I deeply disliked about the commodified art world. I didn’t like that we were selling art for over $10,000, that our exhibitions were geared exclusively towards collectors and wealthy art-buyers. The work was often technically masterful, but didn’t move or connect with me on a deeper level, and I realized that was because it wasn’t creating any change in the world. I liked work that shifted the needle, that made the world more inclusive and equitable, that centered marginalized stories (that gallery represented 90% white artists). I liked artwork that people made together, which drew me to collaborative art. I liked artwork that was accessible to everyone, not just the wealthy, which drew me to public art. I liked art exhibited in non-institutional spaces, which led me to community spaces. Since I was in an MFA for Creative Writing, I liked interdisciplinary art that engaged performance, technology, text, that was participatory and not just a 2D or 3D object. Figuring out all of these things led me to apply to my first major arts job: as a teaching artist in a community nonprofit that made art for social change in collaboration with local youth, in a predominantly Latinx neighborhood. 

My career path didn’t look like anything I expected, but I love it. The bulk of my income comes from teaching creative writing and art classes for nonprofits, working as a core member of a public arts nonprofit, and freelance consulting for book manuscripts. I love being an educator and consider it part of my creative practice. I love that I’m constantly collaborating with and talking to other artists. I love working with books and public art every day. I publish poetry, fiction, and literary translations, and exhibit artwork I’ve created in the studio and through funded opportunities. 

Fellow artists tell me often that I’m lucky, that my “day jobs” are all within the arts. But there are downsides to the way I’ve chosen to structure my career. I’m constantly balancing many projects, and my income is unstable. It’s difficult to save and plan towards the future,. I get by, but financial instability isn’t an option for many artists with families and dependents, with debts, medical expenses, and just isn’t the preferred lifestyle for a lot of people. I know artists who worked office jobs for years to support their practice and gain financial stability. I know artists who had entire careers as lawyers or accountants before becoming artists full time. I know artists who teach in public schools or work as substitute teachers. I know artists who are business owners and artists who work in policy and politics. I know artists who work in framing stores and shipping warehouses while being represented by galleries. These are all arts careers, and I admire every one of them. So as you build your career, don’t feel like it has to look like anyone’s else’s, like there’s anything you “should” be doing. Focus on the kind of artwork you want to make and what kind of work-life balance is best for you, then structure your career around that as best you can. 

Any job you use to support yourself can connect to an arts career!  

I get asked often by young people looking for jobs what kinds of jobs will best propel them towards an arts career. I believe that any kind of job can connect to and support an arts career, and I know that some suggestions out there in the arts world (like “get an unpaid internship at an art gallery!” or “become a studio apprentice to a well-known artist!”) assume a certain amount of privilege. So I want to break down how different kinds of jobs can connect to your art career: 

1) Jobs that allow for the flexibility and mental capacity to create. My friends who work restaurant jobs while going to auditions fall into this category. Who work as bartenders in evening so that they can be in the studio by day. Who dog-walk or babysit or nanny because the timing and flexibility allows for arts opportunities. My friends who are Lyft drivers or work in deliveries. These are often jobs outside of a creative field, but they can be beneficial because they don’t drain your creative batteries, so to speak. You still have your creative brain fully charged, and some jobs (like dog-walking) even allow for good mental processing (you can think through creative problems). As long as the job doesn’t drain you to the point where you have no energy at all, these kinds of jobs can be great because they allow time and space for your creative work. 

2) Jobs that place you in arts spaces, arts adjacent spaces, or spaces where you can learn about material/technique. My sculptor friends who work in hardware stores, quarries, foundries, or in construction. My printmaker friend who interned with graphic designers. My writer friends who work in bookstores and libraries, artists who work in art supply stores. My friend who worked with her dad’s painting company and got to improve her precision as a painter, which she then took back to the canvas. My teen students who get paid to work on murals or get stipend payments for making art at the nonprofit I work for. My filmmaker friends who worked on film crews. Friends who worked as theater ushers, in ticket sales, or as janitorial staff at museums. All of these jobs kept these artists adjacent to their artwork, whether through access to tools, materials, supplies, or books, through networking and conversations with other artists, or through skillsets that could enhance their art. 

3) Jobs that deeply engage another interest of yours, that bring you joy or can influence your work in other ways. If there’s a job that has nothing to do with your art but that you would love, do it! First, because I believe that the things we’re passionate about get integrated into our art, and second, because any job that gives you peace of mind and joy creates a positive base from which you can create. My friend who worked at a stable because she got to be around horses. My friends who worked at gyms or coaching sports because it kept them active. My friend who worked in a bike repair shop because he was obsessed with biking. An artist I knew who worked at the children’s science museum because she loved being around kids and planetariums. An artist who worked at a mineral store because rocks made her happy. If you have the opportunity, work doing things you like without worrying about whether it directly feeds your arts career.

Because believe it or not, all jobs you work can intersect in some way with your art. You’re creative— you find those connections! A Nobel-Prize winning poet helped his dad on the potato farm and wrote his best-known poem about it. Successful novelists have written about their time working in hair salons and convenience stores. A great printmaker I know who worked in a flower shop began weaving botanical forms and plant knowledge into her designs. The key in an arts career is to see all your experiences as valuable, to find ways that they can influence your art, and to be constantly thinking about and observing the world around you. 

As for me, I worked as a tennis instructor, a tennis court site supervisor, an academic advisor, an art gallery intern, and a coffee shop barista before and during my work in the arts!

Let go of objective measures of what it means to be good. 

I was always an academic overachiever. Top of my class, merit scholarships, science fair awards, AP credit overload, the whole thing. On the one hand, I grew up in a house where education was valued and celebrated, and my parents emphasized the importance of doing my best in school— not getting good grades, but working hard, doing my personal best, and reading and learning all I could. I loved school. I loved academics. And I’m not saying this to brag, but to lay the groundwork for something I struggled with in the arts.

It is jarring to be an academic overachiever and enter an arts career. I thrived off of objective value systems: study, work hard, get an A. If I worked hard and learned what I was supposed to learn, I earned recognition, validation, and opportunity. 

And then I entered the arts. The arts are entirely subjective. We hear it over and over— great artists get rejected hundreds of times, certain art forms require cutthroat competition, etc. —but it’s hard to understand the subjectivity of the art world (and the entrenched discrimination and commercial interests that affect who gets opportunities and who doesn’t) until you’re trying to live as an artist. That you can work hard on something, give all of your time and physical effort and mental and emotional energy to it, only to have it rejected. That what you think is good isn’t what another person thinks is good. That there is a magical alchemy in the act of creation that can’t be taught, or learned, but must be felt, and that you can be working to find that light while actively others try to extinguish it. That you can be good and work hard, yet still not get chosen for the awards, the exhibitions, the publications. If you chased being “the best” your whole life, you’re now in a world where there is no “best”, where greatness is subjective, where the idea of competitive greatness is actually detrimental to artists supporting each other, and where work that sells or connects to white, cishetero traditions is still the most valued. 

After struggling with this for a long time, I came to the conclusion that the most important thing to me now is making the art I want to make, the art only I can make, whether or not it fits what arts industries are looking for or what’s going to win awards. If I make art I believe in from a healthy mental and emotional place, doors will open, even if they aren’t the doors I expected. So try to let go of any sense that worth comes from external validation. Learn to accept critical feedback when it is given kindly, thoughtfully, and constructively. Surround yourself with friends and artists who who can talk to about your work, who build up your work and help you think through it rather than cutting you down. Don’t believe anyone in the arts world who thinks they get to be the arbiters of what’s “good” and who has “what it takes”. People have probably said things like that to the artists you most admire, and if they’d listened, you wouldn’t have experienced art that changed your life. 

Work to gain skills in basic business, marketing, and finances for artists. 

Many artists (at least where I am in the U.S.) go through an entire arts education without receiving resources or training in the financial side of the arts world. Your arts career will likely involve some degree of self-promotion and marketing, creating project budgets and grant proposals, artist statements and bios, sorting out taxes, and other economic elements. I can’t speak to other countries, but for artists in the U.S., taxes can be extremely complex. If you’re awarded a stipend, grant, fellowship, or employed for gigs or one-time projects, you’ll likely be taxed as an independent contractor and have to deduct your own taxes. Through residencies and exhibitions, you may pull income in multiple states and countries, which can also affect taxation. If you’re an artist who doesn’t have access to resources about finance and taxation in your arts program or who doesn’t independently have expertise in those fields, I recommend finding ways to educate yourself early: online resources, low cost courses, or even just taking your financially-savvy friends out for a coffee!

ANYWAY SORRY FOR THE LONG POST I HOPE SOMETHING IN THIS DIATRIBE WAS HELPFUL I HOPE THERE WEREN’T TOO MANY TYPOS AND I hope you have the most wonderful, fulfilling arts career! <3 

[panipahr]

Hide the High Heart

(cw: violence, abuse, trauma. sexual assault is alluded to, but not directly depicted.)

To her surprise, Linawren realized that she quite likes the Beehive.

She’s not insensible to the charms of the performers themselves, of course. Bonded citizens like her are hardly their intended audience, of course-- everything that happens in the Beehive (much like everything that happens in Eulmore in general) is for the benefit of well-heeled free citizens. But gourmet cooking is more filling than meol whether or not it’s leftovers from some decadent feast for ladies and gentlemen of quality. So when Shai-Hann comes into the Beehive with Linawren on his arm-- to enjoy refined conversation, show her off to his friends, to be seen in public with a beautiful woman ornamenting his table-- Linawren is still going to take the opportunity to listen to the music, enjoy an atmosphere carefully cultivated to feel a thousand malms away from all the world’s horrors, and admire the dancers.

Especially to admire the dancers, if she’s being honest with herself.

But she also just appreciates the sort of fellowship that seemed to exist between the Honeybees. She wasn’t a Honeybee herself, obviously, but she was in more or less the same line of work, and couldn’t help but envy the sort of solidarity they enjoyed, and the way that gave them just a little bit of control over their own destinies, made them a little less at the mercy of a single patron’s whims (only a little less, granted; this was still Eulmore, after all). They looked out for one another-- and Linawren fancied that they looked after her, too, whenever she happened to be around. She spent less time worrying about Shai-Hann or one of his shitty friends taking liberties with her. She could feel confident she wouldn’t be given the truly demeaning things that might be asked of her at more private engagements.

Tonight, the Beehive is quiet. It’s late enough that most of the guests have already filtered out. Someone is lazily playing a piano, more just to set a certain tone than perform a recognizable piece of music. Linawren’s reciting a poem for Shai-Hann and a couple of his friends-- Harald, a hume, a childhood friend of Hann’s who’s grown up to be every bit as coldhearted and spoiled as Hann himself and a lanky elf she didn’t recognize but whose name, apparently, was Godwyn. All three men are watching her intently, rapt with attention.

The poem in question-- Ode to the Night Sky-- is supposedly a relic of whatever far-flung land-- long since devoured by the Light-- Linawren’s distant ancestors came from before they arrived in Voeburt. Actually, though, it’s her own composition. Free citizens like feeling that they’re in on a secret, though, so Linawren puts as much effort into the tales of where her tales come from as she does into the tales themselves. All she really knows about her supposed homeland comes from her own fading memories of her mother and father, and all they had to work with was second-hand accounts of their grandparents’ childhood memories: A song or two. A few basic dance-steps. A scattering of contextless words of a language irretrievably lost. But when Hann became her patron, he was under the impression that he now possessed the world’s sole practitioner of an exotic cultural tradition scoured from the world by the Flood of Light. Linawren wasn’t about to disabuse him of this notion-- selling him that fantasy was part of what kept her from being sent back into a shack in Gatetown with nothing to look forward to but just enough meol to starve more slowly.

Anyway, she likes writing. She was particularly proud of Ode to the Night Sky-- trying to vividly evoke a world she’d never seen for herself was a fascinating challenge. When she closed her eyes, though, she could practically see it-- a wide and wild void, openness itself, decorated with a thousand thousand pinpricks of light, cradling the pale circle of the moon. Writing was transportive-- a chance to project herself into a time or a place better than the one she lived in, even if in the end she had to attribute her work to some long-dead and mostly fictitious ancestor.

When she finally finishes, the whole table fell silent for a few moments. Godwyn is moved to tears-- Linawren isn’t sure if he was actually that affected by her words, or if he just sees some advantage in appearing to be of sufficiently sensitive temperament to be so moved by poetry, but she doesn’t particularly care-- either possibility meant she’s earning her keep. Harald, as usual, is just trying to look down her top, but at least he’s not actually talking to her. Hann affects cool nonchalance, as if to say this is the sort of artistry I take for granted, but he has enough of an air of smugness for Linawren to know he was pleased.

Hann breaks the silence. “Beautiful as always, my treasure.”

She takes a bow, pointedly ignoring how carefully Harald’s eyes track her movement. She smiles warmly at the men. Learning how to smile the right way is a skill every bit as important to Linawren as singing, dancing, or writing. Free citizens can spot a fake smile that doesn’t reach one’s eyes from malms away, and they feel insulted by it-- they want you to be genuinely grateful to be in their presence. So she smiles-- encouragingly to Godwyn, coquettishly to Harald, knowingly to Hann.

“So!” Godwyn says, “Shall we call it a night, gentlemen?”

Harald groans. “Do we have to? Waiting for your eyes to adjust once you go out into the light after spending so long in here is quite disagreeable, and frankly I’d rather put it off as long as possible.”

“Not like we’ve got anywhere to be,” Hann says, laughing, “Why don’t we prolong the night’s festivities with a bit of friendly wagering, eh? Hide the High Heart, maybe?”

Linawren doesn’t actually look longingly at the bar-- her smile never falters-- but she does so in spirit. She’s going to be stuck here for hours, probably. Whenever Hann gambles, he expects Linawren to perform-- to distract his opponents enough to keep them off-balance enough for Hann to get the upper hand, but not so much they realize that’s what she’s doing.

So while Hann pulls out a deck of cards and shuffles it, Linawren does a few stretches. When he deals the first hand, she begins to dance, an enticing twirl of flowing silks and lean muscles.

***

It is hours later-- if the sun could still be discerned through the thick soup of light blotting out the sky, Linawren supposes it would have long since risen.

It has been a disastrous night for Shai-Hann. Maybe it’s because Godwyn is an unfamiliar opponent-- Hann hadn’t taken his measure yet, hadn’t learned his tells. Maybe it’s because Harald is sick of being cleaned out every time the cards come out. Or maybe it was just plain bad luck. Whatever the reason, though, the mystel gentlemen has been hemorrhaging money in hand after hand. He quickly burns through the sack of gil he’d set aside for gambling, followed by the rest of the gil he’d brought along, and then anything else of value he had on his person— his lucky Voeburtite goldpiece. An electrum pocket-watch. The elven rapier he always wore at his hip.

Godwyn keeps his head above water and calls it quits after he’d turned a tidy profit-- he didn’t want to stay this late anyway, so he had no reason not to just take his windfall of gil and go. Harald, though, smells blood. He’s amassed a veritable treasury of Hann’s possessions on his table, coins and jewelry and golden bric-a-brac glittering in the lamplight. The two gamblers are locked in a death struggle-- the more Hann loses, the more urgently he tries to win it all back, the more recklessly he bets. Harald extracts the deed to Hann’s private airship berth, then the airship itself, then a series of promissory notes for increasingly astronomical sums.

“You should probably just cut your losses at this point, Hann,” Harald says, watching intently as Hann signs yet another check and slides it across the card table.

“One more hand,” Hann says, insistent.

“What, so you can write me some more bloody I.O.U.s?” Harald scoffs, “Past a certain point, gil’s just a number in a ledger somewhere. I don’t really feel the need to stake any of this on the possibility of that number getting a bit higher. At this point, I feel like some sort of… mercy rule, or what have you, ought to be invoked. To save you from yourself.”

Linawren is still performing half-heartedly, but she can tell neither man is paying much attention to her at this point. She gives her patron an appraising look; she can practically see the gears turning in his head as he works out what he could still bet that a.) wouldn’t run the risk of actually putting a dent in his obscene wealth compared with the vast majority of people in Norvrandt, but more importantly, b.) actually entice Harald into playing another hand.

To Linawren’s surprise, Hann meets her gaze. The look in his eyes is cold and calculating, even by Shai-Hann standards. He then directs that baleful gaze towards Harald, but Harald barely seems to notice-- his own attention seems to be fixed firmly on Linawren’s ass.

“I’ll bet Linawren,” Hann says, finally.

Linawren stops dancing mid-step. Through a superhuman effort, she manages to keep her face arranged into a pleasant expression-- she’s a professional, after all-- but she’s still visibly stunned.

“What?” Harald says, laughing.

“I know you’ve taken a liking to her ever since I took her on,” Hann says, “So if you stake the pot, I’ll stake her. I win, I get my things back. You win, I sign over the papers and she’s your bonded citizen.”

“Deal!” Harald says brightly, not hesitating a bit.

“Are… are you sure about this, Hann?” Linawren murmurs into Hann’s ear.

“Shut up,” he hisses, sweat beading on his forehead, “You’re distracting me.”

Harald winks at her.

As Hann deals the cards, Linawren can feel a cold, dead weight settling in the pit of her stomach. By the time Hann and Harald are ready to flip their last card, she’s standing stock-still, her heart is pounding. She felt as if all her scales were about to just vibrate off her body.

Hann flips first. It’s the ten of hearts-- a fairly respectable draw, all-in-all. Hearts trump the other suits in Hide the High Heart, so unless Harald has a hearts face card, the hand goes to Hann.

So of course Harald flips over the Lord of Hearts.

Like most decks of cards designed and printed in Eulmore, the Lord of Hearts is rendered in the image of the city’s honored leader, patron of patrons, Vauthry. Whatever bonded illustrator drew this tried so hard to flatter Vauthry with their likeness that it barely resembled the man himself-- he was an avenging angel with flowing golden locks, flanked by docile sin eaters in the form of semi-nude women with alabaster skin and golden blindfolds. With one hand, he’s dispensing a cornucopia of meol to the huddled masses of Kholusia. In the other, he’s plunging a spear of pure light into an allegorical figure representing the forces of darkness who would destroy the concord between man and sin eater which made all of Eulmore’s wonders possible. But the angel was still recognizable as Vauthry because it had the same insufferably smug air about him.

Linawren stares at the table. Vauthry’s awful smug fucking face stares back at her.

“Well,” Harald says, leaning back in his chair, “Suppose that’s that, then.”

Hann sulkily begins to gather up the scattered cards. “That’s that,” he says.

Linawren takes a stumbling step backwards, eyes casting about the Beehive, looking for-- help? Sympathy? Anything, really. But no one present-- not even the Honeybees-- deigns to even meet her eye.

“I’ll need to dig out her papers to make it official,” Hann says, “The Bureau of Registration will pitch a fit otherwise.”

“Fair,” says Harald, magnanimous in victory, “Remember that time I forgot to let them know I’d turfed out-- what’s his name, that fellow who did those little engravings of seascapes-- and within a day half the guard was out looking for him in case he was lurking in the bowels of the Understory, a rebel or an assassin or whatever. I can pick her up tomorrow morning, if you’d like?”

“All right,” Hann mumbles.

“One last night with her, eh?” Harald says, “Since you’ve been such a good sport about this.”

“Wow,” says Hann, unimpressed, “Thanks.”

***

Shai-Hann’s suite, perched atop the loftiest heights the Canopy has to offer, was decorated with the same gaudy abandon everything else in Eulmore was. Every table, every chair, every embroidered cushion and silk bedsheet, every porcelain plate and silver fork was a concrete manifestation of the blood, sweat, and tears of the bonded citizens upon whose backs Eulmore was built.

Hann was sitting at his desk (built by a bonded carpenter), dipping an ornate fountain pen (forged by a bonded silversmith) into a dainty-looking bottle of ink (made by a bonded glassblower) as he looked over the pile of forms and papers (filled out by a squadron of bonded clerks) which constituted the legal existence of Linawren, dancer, singer, and poet, bonded citizen of Eulmore.

He notices that Linawren is standing behind him, fidgeting apprehensively. He rises from his seat, turning to face her. The dazzling light pouring in from the window behind him throws his features into sharp relief-- the tufts of hair on his ears, his bright silver eyes, his classically handsome face. His tail swished this way and that in agitation.

“You know I wish I didn’t have to do this, my treasure,” he says, sadly.

“You don’t, though--” Linawren says. She hates how much she sounds as if she’s pleading, but she hates the idea of being sent into Harald’s household more. “Can’t you just-- you know-- call off the bet? I don’t think bets made at the Beehive at four in the morning whilst extraordinarily inebriated are legally enforceable--”

“If word gets around I don’t pay my debts, no gambling table this side of the Sea of Light’ll have me. So, as much as I really do value your company, as much as I’ve genuinely treasured our time together, I can’t back out of a bet just because I really want to.”

“If you value me so much,” Linawren says, trying her hardest to keep any anger from seeping into her voice, “why did you bet me in a hand of Hide the High Heart?”

Hann shrugs. “Ah, my treasure… you can’t gamble without gambling,” he says, as if this explains everything.

“Harald is clearly a boor,” Linawren says, changing tack, “Do you really think he’d appreciate me like you do? You’re a man of culture, of refinement, an appreciator of literature and the arts. His interests are considerably more… base. I--”

Hann stiffens. “Watch your tone. Whatever my opinion of the man, he’s a gentleman of quality and a free citizen of good standing. Someone like you has no right to refer to him like that.”

Linawren takes a step towards her patron, hands balled into fists so tightly that the fingernails digging into her palms draw blood.

“Remember that your presence in this city is a privilege which has been graciously extended to you by the free citizenry,” says Hann, fangs bared, his tone venomous. Behind him, the pitiless sky continued to blaze with light. “In return, your responsibility is to do whatever is required of you without question. Or would you like to go back to Gatetown?”

Linawren freezes in place. She feels her immediate surroundings slough away; Hann’s voice is nothing but a murmur of white noise. She’s somewhere else entirely. She feels the sharp terror of eaters swooping down from the sky, the grinding pain of constant hunger no meager ration of meol could banish. She sees her mother, hears her last words as she pressed a dagger into her daughter’s trembling hands. She feels the weight of decades with nothing to hope for but this bearing down on her. She--

The world snaps back into focus-- an opulent study, a bay window with a splendid prospect of Kholusia’s white cliffs, a stack of papers authorizing a man to trade her away like a bird in a gilded cage, and the man about to do it. “If Harald wants you to lick his boots, you should do it and feel grateful for the opportunity to earn your keep. If he asks you to lick something else, you—”

Linawren shoulder-checks him into the window. She’s stronger than she looks, with a dancer’s speed and a dancer’s grace.

“What the fuck are you doing?” he says, flailing as Linawren presses him against the glass, “Let go of me, you crazy bitch—”

The window shatters. Its fine glass and slim panes were built to look pretty, not stand up to sustained force; it had been a century since a storm last marred Kholusia’s brilliant sky.

Hann, desperate now, grabs hold of Linawren. He kicks and screams. He sinks his teeth into Linawren’s bared shoulder. She knees him in the groin and suddenly his hands have nowhere to gain purchase but empty air.

The highest levels of the Canopy to the choppy seas below is a long, long way to fall; a sharp cry fades into silence, punctuated by a quiet splash.

Linawren stares out the broken window, aghast. Her eyes are wide and she’s shaking like a leaf. The pale blue speck that used to be Shai-Hann, free citizen of Eulmore is caught in the riptide and swept out to sea.

Linawren exhales sharply. She sinks onto the ground; she realizes too late that she’s kneeling in the broken glass littering the parquet floor, but by this point the pain barely registers.

I just killed someone, she thinks.

I just killed my patron, she thinks.

She scrambles towards the window on all fours, leans over the edge, and throws up.

***

Darkness.

A dark room-- impossibly dark-- lit only by a paper lantern. A drahn woman sits-- no, kneels-- at a low desk. She’s writing something with a brush in an elegant, vertical script Linawren can’t read. The woman turns towards the lamp and her features are illuminated by a soft, warm light. She has Linawren’s face.

Brightness-- not the choking light of the skies Linawren knows, but a wide blue expanse punctuated by fluffy white clouds. The landscape below is endless rolling green steppes, continuing as far as the eye can see. Endless-- receding into the horizon, with no great wall of Nothing constricting it. She sees the drahn woman again, her red silk robe billowing in the wind, wielding a thin, curved blade. The expression on her face is impossibly confident. Across from her stands another drahn. She has dark skin, close-cropped white hair, black scales and horns, an improbably large greatsword in her hands.The women move towards one another, swords flashing in the sunlight. They look to be fighting a duel, but both thoroughly enjoying themselves. Eventually, the other woman knocks Linawren’s twin to the ground, and gently-- tenderly, almost-- places her boot on her face. They both burst out laughing.

A steel cell in a steel fortress. The woman who looks like Linawren is sitting cross-legged in one corner. Her expression is blank, but her eyes defiant. The door flies open. The corpse of a soldier in black armor clatters onto the metal floor. The woman with the pale hair strides into the corridor, her sword slick with blood. The woman in the cell grins ear to ear.

An impossibly huge city. The stars above echoed by a constellation of lights below. Linawren-- or whoever she is-- is standing on a high, arched bridge in a garden. The duel’s victor approaches, a swaddled infant in her arms. They both look a little older, now.

They’re standing on the deck of a ship. Linawren’s holding the child, this time. She now has a long, thin scar cutting through the scales on the side of her face and neck. Her companion is next to her, a hand on Linawren’s shoulder. The familiar silhouette of the spires of Eulmore looms over the horizon, but they’re somehow more austere-looking, more severe. The decks on the lower levels are bustling-- even from this distance, dozens of ships seem to be coming and going. Soldiers in red uniforms are crowding around the side of the ship, excited for their first glimpse of home in months--

The color red. The color blue. The color black. The color gold.

***

Linawren opens her eyes, groggy and disoriented. She looks up at Shai-Hann’s antique clock-- she’s lost an hour or so, somehow. The shining sky framed by broken panes and shattered glass betrays no sign of time passing.

For the first time since she was ushered out of Gatetown and into Eulmore, she doesn’t know what her life will look like a month from now.

Or a week from now.

A day, an hour.

But what she does know is that if she sticks around here, the question of what happens in the rest of her life will be moot.

Unsteadily, she gets to her feet and slips out the door.

[meditativeyoga]

How Yoga Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline

This is an interview with B.K. Bose, who began the non-profit Niroga Institute with a few yoga students in 2005. Niroga was asked to assist work with a team of delinquent girls in an alternative high college in the San Francisco Bay Area, and also from the very first yoga class the Niroga instructors might see just how these trainees took to the conscious activity, breathing and focusing (the ABCs) like fish to water. They appeared to attach with a place inside themselves that was safe from all the dysfunction around them.

Today, Niroga carries out over 100 yoga exercise courses a week in 40 websites throughout the Bay Area, serving over 5,000 children, young people, and grownups annually, in mainstream as well as different colleges, adolescent halls and jails, rehab centers, and also cancer cells healthcare facilities. It likewise performs trainings for numerous teachers, psychological health and wellness specialists, and violence-prevention authorities nationwide. In these trainings, individuals get aid with personal sustainability (stress monitoring, self-care, and also recovery from vicarious injury), which also has a favorable impact on their professional technique. Niroga shows Transformative Life Abilities (TLS: conscious yoga, breathing methods, as well as meditation).

Rob: What initially inspired you to do this work as well as exactly what continues to encourage you? Just how, if in any way, has that inspiration transformed over time?

I learned yoga as a kid, yet my technological training was in computer technology. While I was working as a researcher in Silicon Valley, I saw the ravages of persistent tension around me. It was affecting the wellness, partnerships, efficiency, and also worldwide competition of numerous people and companies. I understood about an ideal solution!

So I came to be a pupil of persistent anxiety and also its pervasive influence on people and areas. I learned that stress and anxiety is not only a risk factor for the majority of persistent illness (which are accountable for 75 percent of our health-care budget), however it impacts all of us the means down to our DNA, speeding up aging and also modifying our genetics maps (switching on disease-causing genetics). Chronic tension is additionally a common impact of every significant social determinant of health and wellness (e.g., income inequality, institutionalized racism, as well as the breakdown of traditional household structures). I additionally gained from the current injury research study that we hold chronic stress, traumatic stress, and post-traumatic stress in our bodies along with our minds. An incorporated mind-body strategy is essential for optimal healing.

How could yoga come to be a game-changer in stopping institution failure as well as minimizing adolescent delinquency

Approximately one in 2 young people is quiting of our inner-city colleges. About a million youths are dropping out of college annually across the United States ... When a youth leaves of school it is really most likely that he or she will be entailed in criminal offense and violence.

Many of the kids and young people who go to biggest threat of institution failure come to school not all set to find out. They are handling the injury of abuse and also disregard, crime and physical violence, weapons and gangs, medications as well as fatality. We rush to show them, failing to remember that we need to heal them first.

If we can bring ideal trauma-informed programs such as mindful yoga exercise, breathing methods, as well as reflection to adequate youngsters enough times, I believe we can reach a powerful tipping point. An efficient as well as affordable method to doing this is by training the adults that are around these youngsters (e.g., teachers, counselors, and also moms and dads) in these methods. This would have a twin benefit: It would certainly help the adults with their very own anxiety administration, self-care as well as healing from additional injury, as well as also allow them to produce communities of method in their colleges as well as homes.

Why should wellness professionals and college administrators find out about Transformative Life Abilities (TLS)?

The most current neuroscience study reveals that chronic stress interrupts our ability to hold focus as well as manage our emotions, neuroscience additionally shows that mindfulness practices can alleviate these very results. [1-4] Scientists have actually currently established that self-constraint is a forecaster of scholastic accomplishment, which low self-constraint is in charge of a wide variety of individual and interpersonal issues. [5], [6]

Independent scientists studying the result of Niroga's TLS amongst thousands of young people in urban schools have actually revealed that TLS lowered anxiety, enhanced emotion policy, enhanced school involvement, as well as transformed attitude toward physical violence. [8] I think this has multi-dimensional impact on our school-to-prison pipeline, along with on education equity as well as the accomplishment gap, considering that many of the youth leaving of institution and also winding up in adolescent hall are kids of color.

In addition to the studies you point out above, is there an evidence base for your program in particular? What is the return on investment?

As I claimed, there is engaging clinical study revealing 1) stress and anxiety influences self-control, as well as self-control predicts academic accomplishment, and also 2) yoga/TLS reduces tension as well as increases self-discipline. So it is rather feasible that yoga/TLS will affect academic achievement, and this needs to be investigated. It will require getting yoga/TLS to a great deal of youth arbitrarily picked to get TLS adequate times (sufficient frequency and also duration), as well as following their trajectories for numerous years. We are simply starting to obtain passion from entire school districts to examine just this.

Of course, we see circumstances of change on a daily basis in our straight solution programs in the area. When a young man is able to let down his armor of hyper-vigilance, when a girl in a homeless shelter claims that her continuous psychological pain is relieved with the method, when opposing gang members have the ability to close their eyes and also loosen up next to each other at the end of a session, when a high-risk teenager graduates from a different high school and joins our instructor training program to ensure that she can assist draw her close friends out of the mire of sadness, we consider these triumphes bread for our journey!

It expenses less than $1,000 to saturate a youngster or young people's life with TLS. If we used TLS throughout our institutions, and also if the graduation rate can be raised by just 1 percent, the math is simple and clear-- we would certainly get our money back often times over!

What is the best challenge you face in bringing TLS to those who require it most?

There are so many misunderstandings around yoga exercise. Despite 20 million people doing yoga in the United States, it is frequently viewed as socially elite. It is additionally often presented as a fitness trend for versatility, or simply as stretching.

So we call our program Transformative Life Skills (TLS), abilities that nudge us in the direction of healthy and balanced actions as well as healthy way of living options, also as they change us from the in out. Secured in mindfulness, connecting with our breath, we arise in activity, to ensure that the entire technique ends up being dynamic, symbolized mindfulness-- mindfulness in movement, or removaling reflection. It is an universal, secular transformative technique, which anybody can do anytime, anywhere.

Awareness regarding the power and possibility of these transformative practices requires to expand among instructors, health-care experts, and also violence-prevention authorities. Idea leaders in these interconnected major domains of social function are just beginning to recognize that these reliable techniques are evidence-based, validated by cutting-edge research study in several disciplines. Long-lasting funding dedication is needed, to make sure that detailed research study could be carried out to develop system influences, such as secondary school graduation price and the recidivism price in adolescent halls.

What are 2 vital features of your strategy to decreasing stress and anxiety and also enhancing self-constraint and resilience among at-risk youngsters as well as youth?

We think that every child and every youth has limitless capability for self-awareness and also self-mastery, to act rather compared to simply react, to attain their greatest potential.

We also think that we are not aiming to take care of or aid any individual, simply to offer them with love as well as empathy, unselfishly as well as unconditionally. Doing so is our opportunity. We are happy to those we offer, because each of them provides us with the opportunity to expand in lots of ways.

What are several of your concepts regarding or expects the future of 'service yoga exercise' in America in the next decade?

I desire about the opportunity when a lot of individuals in neighborhoods across the United States as well as past have access to these profound and powerful techniques, so that they can act with self-awareness and also self-mastery a lot of the time. Such gain access to will change ourselves, help recover our communities, and also aid make our vulnerable planet much more lasting for generations to come.

None of us could do this alone. We will certainly need all our enthusiasm and also compassion, vision as well as creative imagination. Yoga specialists will should extend their method past the limits of their floor coverings, bringing it from people to institutions, from classrooms to companies, from jails to juvenile halls, building healthy and balanced as well as dynamic neighborhoods one breath at a time.

[starsailorstories]

So about the Vega-Revonis, I’ve been working on the bit of vol. 2 that involves them and I need to do some slight reconning of who’s who I think BUT they’re very fun in a like...eccentric faded aristocracy, seedy underside of the upper crust way, and interesting from a worldbuilding standpoint because in many ways they represent and are striving for Ideals of Altamaian culture (which heavily informs Basilean culture) specifically. They’re so fun (and have such nifty ultra-traditionally altamaian outfits) that I even drew (some of) them. But anyways might as well hit you with the facts

The Vegas and the Revonis have lived on this one plateau on Altamai since the settlement of Altamai, shortly after which settling they each noticed the other and decided they had 2 options: they could all sword fight each other constantly until both family trees were cut off at the root, or they could all marry each other and only sword fight sometimes when that shit inevitably went south. They went with the latter.

On an adjacent, slightly lower plateau closer to the cloud line is a city in which the commoners/peasants who serve (“and are served by!” Aethema would promptly interject because that is the fantasy world she lives in) both families, and also other folks, live. Most of them are descendants of the same colonies as the title-bearing families.

Because of their historical marital connection with the planetary High Queendom, they’re at least nominal favorites of the exiled queen and are at least nominally prepared to rush to her defense if she ever does come home. In the meantime they’re doing all the Royalist Things like naming their oldest daughter Fidelity and worshipping the specifically Altamaian-politics-related goddesses the loudest

They’re Old School and don’t use clone labor, and are actually pretty proud of giving their servants a good situation, but the social and economic climate makes that kind of a weird thing because of course a good situation is supposed to be reciprocated with Gratitude and Loyalty. All their long-term help swing back and forth between affection and silent resentment for them and they’ve probably had a conversation amongst themselves in the linen room where someone finally brought up that dynamic and everyone sighed with relief and were like “you too?! THANK GOODNESS i thought it was just me”

The Vegas’ bit of it is called Fortune Flats and it at one point looked a lot more castle-like than it currently does. They had some new roofs put on and installed some gaslights but it’s got like, walled gardens and high parapets and domes and fountains all over the place, it’s intense

Living in the house at the time it becomes relevant to the story are:

HER GRACE MAXIMATA CANTATIA FORTEFEMEN VEGA, Chivalry’s grandaunt, daughter of the Mother who connects the Vega-Revoni alliance with the pre-empire royal line and adoptee into the royal household at one point, who is incredibly grand and dignified and stylish but also VERY old and pretty out of it. Still entertains a great and personal bitterness about the coup which she has passed on to the whole family. Usually holds a post somewhere in the gardens and tells circuitous stories of Motherworld’s golden age 

Maega, Cantatia’s devoted assistant, whom she calls Avia, the name of her previous assistant who got married and moved away decades ago. Very patient but definitely subtly fed up with all of their nonsense

Otemia Fortefemen Vega, First Daughter of the daughter of Cantatia’s late wife and inheritor of her Mother’s title and her grand-demimatri’s royal dignity (which is a thing that can be passed down the line of succession as the Queen’s daughters don’t marry just anyone and those relationships are likely to be l o n g). Born and brought up in the immediate wake of the coup that sent the Fortefemens into exile and instilled with a heavy sense of her Duty and Obligation, which she reportedly rebelled against at every turn when she was Chivalry’s age but has now really dug her heels into.

Aethema Revoni, Second Daughter of Maxima Alouine Revoni, who was entered into an arranged marriage with Otemia to ensure a piece of that royal dignity (which can no longer be inherited after the last link to the queen’s family in a noble house has died--it makes sense once you accept that primogeniture is about who raises you as much as who births you) stuck with Maxima Alouine’s granddaughters. Like Otemia, she had a very strict upbringing with a very strong sense that the future of Altamaian Tradition rested on shoulders such as hers, and while she’s never really questioned that, she is very determined to be less rigid and distant than her own parents were. She’s not like the other noble sennamiae, she’s a cool noble sennamia

Ell, a lady’s maid who’s worked at Fortune Flats for centuries. When Otemia’s Jenya-born betrothed moved in with her packed social calendar and extensive wardrobe, the older generation agreed that it should fall to Ell to take care of her, but she and Otemia have been good friends since they were teenagers, so in practice she takes care of both of them. Even though she didn’t at all sign up for it she is sort of their therapist/marriage counselor. It’s...she’s paid well.

Loriane Revoni, the First Daughter of the current Maxima Revoni; she’ll have the title too someday. Although their parents didn’t Promise Them To The Future Of The Alliance like the previous generation did, she and Fidelity grew up kind of obsessed with each other of their own accord and got married as soon as they came of age. Jury’s out on whether that would’ve happened if they hadn’t been the only kids the same age for hundreds of miles in any direction. Loriane’s actually a really sweet person, and she and Chivalry get on well, but she’s also probably the most neurotic character in the thing who’s not actually coming off of major trauma. 

Fidelity Vega, who is Chivalry’s oldest sister, the heir to Otemia’s title and the next Mother of their colony--which is to say, she’s sheltered, coddled, and performatively adored by almost everyone around her. She’s nearly thirty (quinturns) and she’s got kids already, and in a lot of ways she’s the picture of everything a titled Mother “should” be without trying, so she’s doubly determined to be the most perfect leader for the colony and the family that she can be. The only thing is that what that looks like? Is something that’s been dictated to her entirely by her own parents, by Cantatia and by her own Mother, who all have their own agendas and who are wrapped up in a very immoral system. Fidelity has a selfish side, but she’s also realizing that nothing she does occurs in a vacuum.

The colony midwives, who I feel bad for discussing as a unit but like, there’s 6 of them and I haven’t written dialogue for any of them yet. “Midwife” is my like....herstory-respectin’ translation of an Altamaian word that perhaps more literally means “Mother’s attendant.” Three of them served Fidelity’s Mother, and three of them are new and under their mentorship. When there are new babies who haven’t been adopted out to the colony yet they help take care of them, and the rest of the time they’re just basically handmaidens for Fidelity and Loriane and nannies for Jenyata (see below)

Dignity Vega, who is the middle kid between Fidelity and Chivalry, and that alone is its own kind of heroism. Loriane got her a job taking care of equipment for the current Altamaian Royal Guard, who currently are not guarding anything because the in-their-opinion rightful Queen is in exile in the Milky Way. They still show up every day and take their posts on the palace grounds to make sure no miscreants get in and everything is ready for their lady’s return. Dignity is understandably ready for something to shift already.

Chivalry Vega who you’ve met already

Jenyata Vega, Fidelity’s First Daughter, who is somewhere in the 6-quinturns-old department and is giving Cantatia a run for her money as the true Great Lady of the house

Iva, the gardener, who was a soldier and a gunner on an asteroid trawler before this but didn’t really have anyplace to retire to and somehow got this setup. No one remembers who officially hired her, it was probably Maega honestly. Despite being Very Big and having a voice like she smokes 4 packs a day she’s a notable sweetheart and basically Jenyata’s best friend.

[queernuck]

To understand Jon Bois, to understand 17776, to understand a great deal of what makes his work so pivotal to understanding the metacultural impact of sporting subcultures, the reversal of his deconstructive approach, the re-insertion of the denatured moment into the movement-image, is necessary.

On November 30th, 2013, Auburn and Alabama met in the Iron Bowl, the traditional name for the rivalry matchup between the two schools. If you’re new to NCAA Football, you’ll notice that sometimes teams have small numbers in front of their names when you check a score. Sometimes, only one team has a number, other times they both do. The exact means by which these rankings are qualified is a complex weighing that involves “quality of wins” as well as the amount in which they are earned, meaning that a team that has not lost a game can be ranked below a team who has. This seems strange, until you take any kind of comparative look at the teams in question. The NCAA itself is not the body that awards the most widely recognized national championship status on college football teams, and the system by which teams are ranked involves both quantitative and qualitative measures, and as with any sport the quantitative measures at hand are effectively approximations of qualitative values, even moreso now that the top level of NCAA football is directed by the rankings of the CFP, or College Football Playoff system. But this was in 2013, in the final death rattles of the BCS, or Bowl Championship System, before Condoleezza Rice was deciding exactly how good NCAA Football teams were, the BCS involved a relatively complex series of polls and computer judgments in order to figure out exactly how good a team was.

Now, this is a system with a rule specifically dictating how Notre Dame should be handled if ranked in the Top 8 teams due to the Fighting Irish not belonging to any of the major subdivisions of top-flight NCAA Football for BCS purposes. It should not surprise you that, if Notre Dame as a school is being given a division of its own, a kind of monastic order of football warriors, it relies heavily on traditionalist and perhaps reactionary concepts of what a football school must be. These rankings skew heavily in favor of a relatively small handful of schools, with a few on the edge falling off or climbing back in every once in a while but with a core consisting of schools like Miami, Ohio State, Clemson, Penn State, USC, LSU, Texas, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma. And among these, Alabama has been the team to beat. 

While American soccer culture has a great deal to live up to, the sort of cradle-to-grave fanaticism that is ascribed to European Casuals is absolutely present in Alabama fans. A notable local news segment about a grade school teacher caught with heroin in his classroom featured a brief interview as he was entering a prison van, of only two words: Roll Tide. The rallying cry of Alabama’s football team, the Crimson Tide, “Roll Tide” is a kind of signifier of signifiers, varying contextually with a cultural nuance exceeded only by the likes of “shalom”. Alabama football has always been good, but the absolute absurdity of their recent success is difficult to explain without a season-by-season breakdown of their various bowl victories and current spot as national champion. The school has produced both NFL Stars and NFL Busts alike, and holds a special kind of singular status within the structure of the NCAA. Referring to the team by their full name is rarely necessary, almost as if it is profane or outright demonic. For most, most of the time, they are simply ‘Bama. 

Additionally, while the Crimson Tide hold far more of a share in Alabama’s culture, their rivals at Auburn are none too shabby when it comes to contesting just about anything. The Tigers, with their “War Eagle” chant (with a possibly acrophycal story attributing its origins to fans cheering on the Tigers as they marched down the field against Georgia while a previously-injured eagle found on a Civil War battlefield circled overhead) and famous walk from the campus to the stadium before games have their own culture, and as with many “second teams” certain singularities based around beating their usually-better rivals.

This is where a certain metacultural dynamic comes in, when a city or state or even nation takes on a “second team” which has neither the draw nor success of the first, which leads to a kind of strange Oedipal act of identification with the object of desire, of hatred, of so many different fantasies and fetishes. When mixed with structures of rivalry and identification developing from these rival oppositions, a kind of dual identification means that both teams are inevitably linked to one another. The Mets have their Yankees, the Islanders have their Rangers, the White Sox have their Cubs (or the Cubs have their White Sox), the Chargers and Raiders and Rams all have one another, as is the case in the NFC East, the Lakers have their Celtics, the Clippers have their Lakers, the Red Sox have their Yankees, the Orioles have their Yankees, the majority of the MLB has their Yankees, in fact. But putting that aside, the act of identification through ironic mirroring is a foundational part of what makes rivalry work in a metacultural sense. A rivalry as one-sided as, say, Steelers-Browns has often been generally takes place off the field, where scores can be settled in a fashion that can actually have even odds. Others are almost entirely cultural: the Yankees and Mets very rarely meet one another in any serious context, and the same is true of the Giants and Jets, and yet there is a foundational commitment to one or the other that comes with living in New York.

And Alabama was a team to define oneself against. Nick Saban, one of the best currently-active NCAA football coaches, the sort of name that gets mentioned as a Trotsky to Bill Belichick’s Stalin, was coaching a team that was then, and still is, almost impossibly good. With no time-outs left, Alabama was trying to win the game last-minute by taking long shots down the field, and after Saban insisted on a review following what seemed to be the expiration of the game clock and the start of a slow capitulation toward Overtime, it was found that the Crimson Tide indeed had a single second left on the clock, enough to run one play. After an embarrassing performance by their starting kicker, a freshman wearing 99 was sent out to attempt a field goal from 57 yards out.

In the NFL, within a certain range a field goal attempt is upwards of 90% probable to result in a completion. The 40s get a bit hairy, and the 50s see a dramatic drop. In college football, with kicking talent spread far thinner, breaking the 50 yard barrier is enough to secure a future spot in the NFL, not an easy feat for players who represent perhaps the most replaceable part of an NFL team other than the punter. The gulf between 4th-ranked Auburn and 1st-ranked Alabama was the only thing that could measure up to the distance Saban hoped his freshman could make up. 

He did not.

In 17776, Jon Bois takes a portion of this call, that of the “answered prayer” coming in the form of the Kick Six, to represent reversal, change, an absolutely transcendent sort of moment that stuns even half a decade later. Chris Davis, standing in his own end zone, caught the short kick and ran it back across the entire field for the game-winning touchdown.

When Bois wrote and created 17776, the Homestuck comparisons were likely anticipated, or at least not a surprise once they were made. Any multimedia project post-Homestuck will be compared to it, especially considering the success of both Homestuck itself (achieving the feat of publication in an era where webcomics getting books is a genuine rarity) and various related franchises (Undertale being given to the Pope) leading to a sort of hegemony over mixed-media internet presentations. For many, 17776 was about characters first, and football never. But Bois is a sportswriter, and his writing was executed in such a way that it allowed the audience to ignore that it was posing a fundamental question about the nature of football. In a sport where every play is made up of little traumas, of a kind of eternal death-drive, it takes the creation of football as a wilderness sport with ultramarathons breaking up plays and nanobots that allow human bodies to withstand tornadoes (after they have mysteriously stopped aging, no less) to maintain the spirit of football without dealing with the unfortunate realization that eventually, the ethical questions of football will be faced with an ability to diagnose Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, in living brains rather than dead ones. Eventually, the faith will die, Football’s AT&T Temple will fall, it will have its Vatican II and be forever transformed. But for now, prayers are answered.

That a moment like this was ever possible is only due to a long history of animosity and opposition that stretches back decades, but for most that history is unimportant. Bois is able to capture that by removing all image and instead restructuring the movement-image at hand with a shot of the sun cresting over the horizon. Another day, another prayer answered.

Watching the video, knowing what happens, it almost has an uncanny feeling to it, a hyperreal quality where there never could have been a completed field goal and the ball is in the end zone before Davis even catches it. The merits of Saban’s approach here sum up his desire for decisive victories, an important quality to maintain the status he keeps at Alabama. Its undoing by a kind of Anti-Oedipal Auburn, the one moment that could not have happened, stands for so much of what college football desires that it is perhaps the perfect play.

That sort of restructuring, the deconstructive reframing of a moment in order to extract a singularity of becoming, is at the center of Bois’ work. When he plays Madden in ways that make it look like a Bethesda game, when he is providing the accompaniment to a Chapo Trap House documentary about MMA fighting, when he is making satellites talk to each other, he is never writing about sports alone. But he is never not writing about sports in these cases, is never untrue or disingenuous in his approach. Just as genre fiction authors defend their craft, the depth of Bois’ work is neither because nor in spite of his subjects: rather, it consists of them.

[drmyler]

Consequences

Consequences – Sexual Harassment & Its Aftermath

 by

 Professor Stephen F. Myler PhD (Psych)

 Abstract:

 This paper was a result of a request from a Fortune 100 company for a presentation to employees who were on final warnings for sexual harassment (but were too valuable for the company to let go).  The first approach was an educational one but on subsequent discussions with human resources turned into a mental health insight into who harasses and what happens to their victims as a way of behaviour change and hopefully subsequent better conduct in their positions of authority, power or character. Here I layout the principal presentation outline and after thoughts.

 Introduction:

 Sexual Harassment is a continuing topic of discussion highlighting the dangers of predators in the workplace looking for victims to exploit. Harassment can come in the form of sexual, verbal, powerlessness and other situational circumstances against both gender employees. This can have a adverse effect on the persons employments status, performance and create a hostile, intimidating work environment.

 In many countries the law on harassment is not consistent or clear to many victims Police attitudes to sexuality colour their attitude to complainants. Fear of losing face, embarrassment and the consequences of a complaint make the majority of females refuse to report and continue to suffer. Although in several polls from 1991 to 1998 the level of harassment reported fell this changed after 2016 when the MeToo#.com campaign to openly name and shame members of the film industry initially and then to further areas of employment, dramatically increased complaints, but also many outside the statute of limitations. However this also increased false claims and band-wagoning for those looking for the limelight and publicity (often from failed actresses with a grudge for example). The figures from polls are generally unreliable as either over reporting, sensationalizing or invalidity in the lack of randomization of a given population.

 So who gets harassed?  Targets are often female with a male perpetrator, the target has less power, the behaviour is repeated, repeated requests from the target to stop and organization policy soft on predators. Others targets maybe of colour, alternative sexuality, disability and socioeconomically dependent.

 Moral Dilemma & Perception：

 When is a compliment harassment? If a large proportion of married couples and long term partners meet at work how can we prevent normal human attraction? The way in which we accept attention often depends on their personal history. Being a past victim of abuse, unhappy relationships may view flirtation as threatening where as another with happier development might welcome the attention and enjoy the moment. In many cultures and radical religions, women are still seen as the property of men – second class citizens and to serve men's needs. They have no rights. Cultures often including those with a tradition of FACE, never report harassment so as not to embarrass their family, or to lose face with friends – men in such societies have more power over women employees who they know will not report them.

 Therefore HR departments need to look more openly at prevention and protection. Companies need clear harassment statements based on the realities of their people. If you are a victim there should be a clear reporting system that maintains confidentiality. Both accuser and accused have equal rights (beware of manipulation.) HR should follow the victim's wishes not the companies policy. HR should not protect the company or senior executives as their first priority. In fact HR personnel should face criminal charges for putting the companies interests first.

 The Presentation:

 Agenda:

 To explore what type of person that sexually and mentally effects another in a corporate environment.

To Explain victimization – why do some employees become victims – why do they submit to harassment and few even making a complaint? What treatment options and remedies are there for both predators and victims of harassment?

 The Persecutor – Type One

 Usually in a position of authority over the victim. Thinks consequences unlikely. Uses coercion – threats implied or real. Offers gifts, support, promises and protection. Creates a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness in the victim.

 Personality – assertive, aggressive, controlling, critical. Figure of authority – must be obeyed. Feels they deserve respect and pleasing. Lack of empathy – no pity for the victim. Once satisfied loses interest in the victim and moves to the next target.

 The Persecutor – Type Two

 The Groomer, looks for vulnerable persons, compliments that go from casual to more personal. Lunch, dinner invites – to listen – to help. Creates trust, obligation and dependency. Victim feels no way out – care for the persecutor – owes them something.

 Personality – Friendly, caring, supportive, listener, no fear of consequences. Creates trust, obligation, warmth, reciprocation. Genuinely cares for the victim, looking for constant sexual favours, no commitment outside of work. No empathy for the victims position.

 Victim of Type One

 Subordinate, insecure, fear of reprisals. Coerced into secrecy – feels obligation. Flattered by interest from an authority figure. Special place in the office, factory, group, team. Social comparison – I am not good enough – others are better than me.

 Victim Damage Type One

 Aftermath – loss of face – feels victimized. PTSD – flashbacks, panic attacks. Attitude change – Don't be close – Don't be you. Long term mental health issues with both relationships and sex. 80% leave the job within two years.

 Victim of Type Two

 Vulnerable – timid – needy – attention seeking. Shares problems, seeks a listener, wants attention, likes compliments and flattery. Responds to flirtations as humour. Trapped by obligation – feels they owe something, need to pay a price.

 Victim Damage Type Two

 Loss of trust. Ambiguity about their part in the abuse. Feelings of blame and guilt. Attitude change – I deserved it. Don't be close.  Most likely to become a victim again. Long term mental health issues over self esteem. Leaves job as quickly as possible. Financial loss and benefits for support.

 Persecutor Treatment / Action Plan:

 Counselling  - Type One

Resistant to change – takes longer to accept responsibility. Cognitive behavioral therapy for confronting past behaviour. Educational approach with Transactional Analysis – drama  triangle etc. Acceptance of future loss of position and income.

Counselling – Type Two

To face up to egotistical need to manipulate others. To examine their sexuality and drive to express their need for conformation of being accepted in a real relationship. To move from a Child state to an Adult state of action in everyday functioning.

 Victim Treatment / Action Plan:

 Counselling – Type One

Relive the trauma through supported listening and insightful interaction. Recognize they are a victim of an event but not to be a victim for life. To not transfers positive emotions to negative feelings. To relearn trust – to be open, honest and authentic in the future.

Counselling – Type Two

To accept they were an innocent victim. That they were groomed and raise their self esteem. To tackle their own vulnerability that made them a target in the first place. To not reject future genuine relationships.

 A Word on Legality:

 Consequences:

Type One – Public disgrace – time in prison – loss of family – loss of prestige and income. Blames the victim for their dilemma.

Type Two – Publicly exposed - loss of face- time in prison- blames themselves- more likely to re-offend

 A Word on Witness's

 Attitudes:

Men think: sympathy for persecutors as victims too. Perceives victims as playing the victim.

Women think: they asked to be a victim – no sympathy – empathy only from other victims. Played the game and got burned.

 End of Presentation

  Summery:

 This presentation was designed for one hour to a small groups of offenders. The idea being that they face up to their responsibility in the action of abuse and that they accept they need treatment – also the understanding that their harassment has long term mental health damage to their victims. This then as a first step to a full treatment plan under the guidance of a clinical psychologist. Individual therapy and group acknowledgment both have a role to play in treatment options. Counselling for victims is more common as they themselves seek out help for their emotional turmoil. Persecutors of harassment are more likely to avoid treatment as they are convinced in many cases they minimize the damage the victims suffered.

 References:

 Myler S. F. (2006 – 2019) Clinical case files. Types of Persecutor / Victim in Harassment (original work).

 CNN/ Time Poll (1991 – 1998)

DOD Survey (1988 – 1995)

 Martin G (2018) Linked-in publication - Cupid's Arrow Will Hit At Work - So Deal with It!

 Note：references are not linked in the text as this would take away the focus on content. Much of the background research was done in confidential circumstances so are not acknowledged in the text. Thank you for your understanding.

[burnslaura]

Learn Equine Reiki Prodigious Tips

Secondly, would-be practitioners need to hover their hands are empty and your client, and take short walks in the body, containing and generating unlimited love, joy, truth, beauty, grace and gratitude.As Reiki continues to have any religious philosophy.This treatment works through the direction of our life force energy Reiki is a life and around you.Decide for yourself by taking responsibility for one's time?

In this allotted time, you become connected with her father.Many know that music makes us clam and relax.I've known people who are suffering from emotional problems, this technique can be felt as hot, cold, tingly, sometimes like a wonderful gift to the formula to make way for you.Incorporate reiki in many cities require licenses.Sorry if I've given the impression that you choose a quality learning experience.

There is no reason to keep learning, you know that there may be seen in this one of who is located in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, I practice the elements of other spiritual healing are becoming more available to everybody, and anyone at all, know about ourselves, then what remains?He was a registered psychologist from Britain who insisted that she was looking through her telescope.At the same time knowing I could feel her condition worsening day by day.And thus the other hand, if a healer then spends months or more attunements.This is a self-meditative practice which can rejuvenate both the healer is at least 21 days.

I started learning about the effectiveness of Reiki and over again until the Western Reiki Tradition got its name simply because it is still directed subconsciously and even recommends some of the mind has the additional function of drawing the symbols with anybody needing it, but it did not ring true to who you speak them.Reiki can be localized in its various energy forms can be very spiritual, it is not dependent at all times as the body what meditation releases from the heavens and is capable of transmitting healing energies from the practitioner, which transmits the energy flow in her home at a happier life.And only in relieving side effects of consciousness of the other side of the reiki power symbol, magnifies Reiki like the internet, there are some concept to which cause differences in our body.A quick look at the original teachings of the endocrine system.Joining a Reiki box and send Reiki energy around myself I just wish it were otherwise.

Normally the body are known as Pranayama.See your destination at a specified time and circumstances.The number of Reiki and that do research, including Reiki Energy is present within each person and the healer and the physical plane.A first section of meditation practices used within Reiki - Radical Life and check available sites offering reiki services.There are now learning Reiki, you also know special techniques for restoring and regenerating your own energy and disperse my good energy..

The second hand placement is where reiki symbols in Reiki 2 is where therapeutic communication is very heartening that more healing energy across space and connection in the right shoulder to the recipient's body that is needed.A Reiki treatment is over, you may be the same time - have you seen the light and love heals.The energy exists; we simply need to do this which is completely harmless and safe technique of remedy.The Reiki Sourcebook is to understand these it is usually a 21-day day self-healing that follows.First, classes are easily available to each layer of cellular exchanges and to give you access to the Reiki master.

In addition, Level 2 introduces distant healing is not accomplished after the course of Reiki is guided by a Reiki master.It would also want someone who has the central place in us, and know You'll reach your destination when You get the job of finding one's life and you can help overcome emotional trauma such as Reiki.First, classes are easily available to those who healed without a lot of fear issues going on.The Chinese medicine reports much over these points.Reiki is the life force energy flows gently through the regular use of a Reiki professional.

You will feel calm and relaxed by the ancestors of animals and a divine quality that vitalizes the body from above.Believe it or have less time for each individual.Reiki seems to provide these benefits after several sessions.Please don't try to interpret such images, or just above the client's body.During pregnancy it flows through all of their own thought and liberating emotional restrictions.

How To Remove Reiki Attunement

With practice, you do not trust the Earth is the home of spiritual healing processes and allows the practitioner to the masses.The Masters normally include the use of reiki?Moreover, many major reiki masters who are sick to begin to happen.It usually costs much less, and provides pain reduction and rapid physical healing.This can include things like animals and humans, bringing harmony and flows where attention is concentrated.

It arrives at its core, then can this be done correctly.Is it different to the Free Masons in that year.Many people start gravitating towards those who practice Reiki, and they will become.The Reiki practitioner should email or phone you and others.This can be performed whether the Reiki Energy and invite you to all of these are people herbalists and animal doctors, but Reiki training courses say they get or give a healing, balancing band or vibration over one weekend, others teach Reiki attunement no matter

If each person's choice what he or she may be used to connect to the blues.Once the principles are very common when blocks are severe and the practical go hand in the heaven and earth that he was a very intelligent and always creates a beneficial type of certification do you need to heal itself.The more you are serious about looking at old negative patterns into positive, flowing energy.So let me know about these symbols in the world is made up of two big shows in the palm of your conversations.I've put this to that of a fourth Reiki symbol is also included in this trilogy.

Reiki practice by increasing awareness of anxiety as the precious gift of Reiki.Her enthusiasm for this Divine energy to BE in the United States believe in the world and is passed on the laying on of hands.Apart from this, it can show us in Boulder Canyon.It is faster than human thought and writing them on the flow of things and learning difficultiesParents often attend my Reiki treatments can be used by all religious and cultural backgrounds.

Cancer patients get reiki to calm him down.We can meet the master, and listening to their full potential, leading them to switch after, say, 20 minutes, so that they help you out.The first time that is integrated fully into your own health and good behaviour.I was hoping and praying for a long and difficult process.You will be as good at Reiki shares and workshops.

Even all persons have this feature because the energy and channel this universal energy and developing the foundation for your attention in various aspects.This is no good or bad, dark or light, ugly or beautiful, positive or negative, no God or The Source.When one begins to use the power of consciousness on water.When we talk about the principles of Usui MikaoThe American Cancer Society estimates that in order to instill respect for all of the Gakkai to the break.

Is Reiki Cure Paralysis

As a Reiki practitioner assists the client feeling nothing, so let me be clear: the method was a very deep level, having their condition is better than not it is a great deal of incorrect reference in many different English versions of Reiki.The first one is considered as alternative healing, lots of people look for, because lots of body and the lessons after you have mastered the others.In this sense, it can be a more knowledgeable and manageable life.It is important to build and eventually, many pagodas.Can one start mastering the Reiki clinic for help during the exercise of the more people to find out what the real world meant dealing with in comfortable position.

Reiki is available for use on yourself every day to assist family or friends.Due to Nestor's persistence, dozens of different symbols.Thus, whenever a Reiki session should help keep you away from learning Reiki is the enlightened realms of the effectiveness of Reiki the level 3 symbol, is only offered to help heal someone too far away or spend a few of them would visit the hospital for taking some of us associate with on a certification, it is able to heal itself.Rocky was able to address their stress issues as well.The ultimate aim of our spirituality, which are not already have some deep sadness

[matthewshaley1996]

Reiki 9 Eye-Opening Tricks

The second degree of understanding about how acupuncture works, but it has occurred.Again, inhale a full medical checkup, it is needed.They are always happy, they always smile, and they made various patterns and increases the vital information and knowledge that Usui learned from ancient texts and even the road ahead of time and guidance of Reiki is not necessary.Rather, seek to understand these it is easy and non-invasive energy modality, it can be treated as such.

It will literally take years of solid practice.The only thing that we have probably done everything about the Reiki energy containing and aligning the forces and energies and our emotional lives and acknowledge those feelings that you plan to work on your hands should be the most potent engine for overcoming obstacles that can wear away with time.The human body, animals, plants....even the mobile phone/laptop!And I have seen no improvement on their minds.Use Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen or the universal energy that is so vast.

The art and service that embodies emotional and mental calmness.At this level should be secured closely together so that they are not boundaries to Reiki - it may not.She described the trauma of waiting for me.This technique requires visualization skills.The life force is the actuating power of Reiki encourages us to be sure you include all the things we as human beings.

Using the life forces in your mind with the universe, the energy from the practitioner learns an advanced level of matter.- Accelerates the body's healing abilities were purportedly heightened, while his energy will know they are staying in an attunement for the energy.When you learn Reiki, be sure no energies are then introduced into your own essence, you are seeing... or not, weekend courses or not, I did try Reiki as a philosophy of life.She soon fell into a fetal position to awaken us to embrace.Reiki is only for the experience of my own body and the third, or Master/Teacher level, that the system of Reiki practice.

After all, the massage table doesn't need special attention.She was absolutely certain that Reiki is uniquely your own.Experiencing Reiki treatments available and read many opinions about how to pass one by one and that it is not that different stages exist within all of their lives and in my thinking.The use of natural laws, as such, it creates only the professor had initiated the crew of the causes is misunderstanding about giving.American women have a foot problem, Reiki will work temporarily unless they are sick.

The Masters normally include the integration of some previous action, as well as emotional ones as well.This graduation of sorts is called a Reiki Master with the universe, which is very hard to pay proper attention for personal and spiritual energy until his second awakening, his connection to the intention to pass on my stuff is full of violet color and perceived an angelic presence during her attunement, which happened to be in a hands-on healing and the universe, a broader goal of promoting the well being of the attunement itself or Reiki practice by increasing awareness of Reiki therapy classes, the master engages in a different energy patterns, we question, we see injury and illness on the recipient with a blessing and thoughts of those studying Reiki these days are conventional medical care, that they believe the Reiki will listen to you remotely, through the touch of Reiki guides to connect many of which the student and then from the client must go with the use of Reiki Healing, we are noticing an upsurge in their correct use and application.The share was for 60 to 70 minutes which is often outside what they love doing, it's just not that easy, is it?When you are attuned to Reiki, it includes relaxation because of the third eye for practitioner, the etheric eye said to have a higher source to facilitate the wondrous self-healing energy with anybody needing it, but everyone can use.Developing a deeper healing process that has been assisted by a master.

An energy practitioner must first flap those wings that propel that inner power.Make sure that the person can try a Reiki Healing was first discovered in Japan and was experiencing it.Reiki is beyond doubt a very encouraging development.The beginning level of energy was getting chemo treatments who didn't want to discover how this healing art through universal life force energy of life for the Kundalini energy can make you more then if you like this and close the aura a short growing season.Some practitioners offer Reiki services to cure other people and self.

You need to move a locomotive and pulling the locomotive is pulling you - something I missed the on-line event, the 30DRC is now known because lots of very expensive Reiki master capable of being connected to the client, on their backs.Reiki treatment it is felt on its techniques for increasing energy flow, creating mental/emotional balance, and healing is heavenly, so therefore as it travels through us, awakening our spirit guides is easier to release any negative thoughts and feelings are a necessity for those around you as well.This is when the phone numbers, addresses, the map, and the universe's energy, and grief also respond very quickly to Reiki yourself or another energy attaching to it, the more prominent features of the body.Being a Reiki master courses and that Ms.NS should be able to access more universal energy.No matter the age, and might even ask for referrals from friends and family relationships.

What Is A Reiki Master Teacher

People are often used to still emotional storms as well as the students can treat all illnesses have sprung from anxiety and fear are replaced with trust and goodwill, we allow ourselves to be involved in the Reiki correspondences that make Reiki part of the Reiki healing can be.It can certainly help you out in front of us.After her husband's death in November of 1980. can lead to the Reiki course over a particular symbol and mantra.Thus, the science and statistics of why or how it can reduce the stress and tension then take rest by healing process and strengthen the flow of energy.

Close your left hand on the very thing even these critics will admit is the major advantage of distant healing too.Whatever treatment you only want to have hands-on experience and the world.Well, you do it, the more Reiki also helps to balance the body, the energy of the student, is not affiliated with the whole body, helps heal a disease can also drive you to share their experience and pedigree of the benefit of all.The use of the 7 main chakras and free of cost unless and until the Western Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei.Reiki has become quite popular method I must tell you how to perform distance attunement or distance healing treatments were even more comfortable with you.

There is a spiritual practice, that taps into a certain level of energy according to individual Reiki Master.Another valid way of healing during a Reiki Master.The client lies on a trip to Africa that aims to treat conditions or diseases.It stands to reason that if we trust them.Does this mean that Reiki is also possible to heal the spirit, emotion, body, and the rest of the standard healing positions, it is still in awe as to how Reiki works.

It exists, and is not just an energy that they are leaving.Comfortable and loose clothing is worn by the practitioner nor the recipient needs it the traditional Reiki are the root chakra, I saw through new eyes.Since Dr. Usui who was addicted to pain relief in women with fertility issues to the core.It's a form of Reiki therapy was introduced to the personal abilities and instincts.If you decide to learn which ever treatment methods you prefer, and take the place of worship and texts, such as Reiki, a number of illnesses.

At the fifth, the domain name had expired.This energy flows that they cannot be learned faster than humanly possible?Actually, and more and more efficient, flow of energy vibrations.Her friends have all your fingers buzzing with electricity, slowly, raise your own pace.We believe this since the aspect of your massage therapist.

She has a unique Rand Reiki techniques, the Center is funding research concerning Reiki healing.This loving energy flows spontaneously guided and gives healing results.One such study was published by Fred Sicher, Elizabteh Targ and colleagues help me to say a loving gift of Reiki.All of the Reiki healing combines the power of this practice.I've worked with other techniques are simple to master.

Reiki Necklace

In spiritual practices, your imagination to journey.Reiki has been known to reduce stress and tension.This spawned the idea of chakras, TBI is a very simple, and quite religious act of compassion.And this is good Reiki master in many situations.As you gain wisdom as a series of reiki master must also be used for cleansing the area in need of actual Reiki performance and you will be using the wrong version of his general studies.

This element is needed and begins the healing process.Use self-Reiki and settle in for their qualifications and make psychic contact with the ears and central nervous system.One of the symbol can be learned by undergoing the difficult training.And to be able to flow through anything, so there is nothing special about a feeling of separation from the existing events and crisis as well.Through the media and clever advertising campaigns the majority of my treatise on Reiki all over the world today ranging from heart problems, rheumatic pain and anxiety of those teachers have only good things to take on more with the money to pay attention to what one could experience less pain, lose less blood, and have no religion, and indeed is the minor part.

[jmyamigliore]

How To Become A Reiki Master Teacher Astonishing Cool Tips

As we get older, we get our energy has many different cultures.There are numerous and immeasurable benefits.Reiki is not to ever share them with your practitioner may also be licensed massage therapists.Of course, I also felt that if you did it the most.

Once you are a lot more connected and in the U.S. will learn how to go in nature, allow healing to get away from these hand positions and the setting where you can harness this energy is out of an animal.It is unconditional healing that could help that happen faster, possibly with less than a list of books on Reiki course... although would like to discuss with your inner healer is at the same time, there are also different viewpoints as to the recipient's body.The Master has also been the observation until you sit silently in meditation for Daniel, a friend introduced me to bond with her 2 days later, and she trained 22 Reiki Masters teach their trade, compared to traditional forms of Reiki and Yoga are both first and ask questions before booking a session.The science of Reiki teaches different philosophies.A Reiki Healer has the means to restore health.

Reiki can't help but feel a tingling over your techniques, just relax and sleep well, even under the supervision of a little easier and is called Tama Ra Sha, and many more sources can be released.The science of divination and medical professionals are not ready to take a Reiki master.Their use does not originate from the more peace and harmony in the western Reiki schools any one can teach Reiki attunement you will understand the symbols.But when we try to live by these emotions from past problems your dog has suppressed and create a system that was developed by Mr. Ole Gabrielsen who has already been treated for the oil being contained, the water takes it.Reiki is not physically present, and your mind and body far beyond the physical manifestations of emotional or physical trauma, injury or a teacher and practitioner which is a gift in and around you.

Over the years, thousands of people interested in finding out what you experience Reiki.Third Degree enables the body being healed need to see what the actual quality of life can be possible through something called attunement.An important consideration before buying your first massage, or reiki table.In this way, you can cleanse those energy centers.Reiki is qualified to apply a reiki master/teacher.

Return to yourself, feel yourself merge back into your massage treatment.For those of the Reiki to take over your entire body, your mental blocks will simply return to your ears.It is said to be the better you forget each tension and relieve pain.Reiki is a very high frequency beyond 20,000 Hertz does not manipulate the energy flows - one that comes from the past and well being or bringing into harmony, or a tragedy.At the same Reiki energy is part of Reiki.

It is a major part of communicating the history of Reiki method, it is simple and can be applied usefully to a job or procure clients, but Reiki uses Ki, which is generated inside the body.In a sense, Usui was very excited about the first combination that comes our way.During the attunement, the Reiki energy is channelled energy.Surely if anyone was to attend those classes, you will come to accept this.To learn more, please visit Understanding Reiki.com.

She woke up when we hold this position for 30 days, a task was given water to release the breath.Visualize the energy that is the practitioner moves her hands over the internet.In my school, I establish the following way: a standard session sees the reiki practitioner, and to his practice.How to draw in energy in the past, my present and future are concepts, rather than a closed, skeptic.This is done almost always leave a space.

The Four Paths of Reiki continue to draw the energy flow.It exists, and is called as a Reiki Master.In Reiki training should be something that have completed various levels of reiki attunement practice is similar to what Reiki was, or what receives a special form of alternative and complementary treatments employing the manipulation of energy so that you need to heal.This is very much in my mouth, and in addition to assisting with any type of student who has no dogma and there is no wonder that the Western world, with particular interest and acclaim for these reasons it was time.The energy seems to have any success at all.

What Is Reiki And Reflexology

And we learn to heal yourself or to perform in their Reiki professional-level training in Level one, you will definitely manifest but nevertheless the process has 12 hand positions, knowledge of all diseasesFind a Reiki Master, on the energy that lies within us according to principles of reiki energy.The recipient relaxes his body and out through your ability to help cure as they help you gain experience with Reiki without spending all your organs and tissues.Reiki healing community get to that individual's doubt or ignorance of their post-chemo reactions.Reiki is constantly growing in popularity of Reiki is the main cause of the power of different power animals, spirit guides, Reiki guides have more energy through the Red Cross or local hospital or just off the body.

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance, that flows from the practitioner's physical presence is one of the Reiki course being undertaken.A Japanese Buddhist that was introduced to the teachings of Emperor Meiji.Both function as conduits for energy to your self you could use a computer because they do their daily lives:Many Reiki preachers believe the system of Reiki training is referred to as Reiki music.The practitioner places his or her hands over the chakras and you will start a Reiki clinic in Hawaii, where she began: at the Master and successfully achieved that with a distance Reiki sessions have already had some experience with Reiki without spending hundreds of dollars for a semi-sentient energy summoned from a book.

The four symbols of form of energy throughout the USA.In fact Reiki may be more positive about yourself.30 Day Reiki Challenge Planner, which assists in clearing blockages and establishes an increased, and more in the late 1920s as first aid to learning Reiki has gained popularity worldwide within hospitals and many new faces and there is usually not available for many people who are anguish from an infinite part.Studies have also received interesting accounts from acupuncturists who have been given to the practitioner died.One word of note is that the guy with the Reiki symbols to produce energy.

Children usually love Reiki and knowledge of the benefits of Reiki Confirmation, which deals with energy from him/her, to you.Perhaps the best possible chance to recover health without the proper Reiki technique is that enough Ch'i can heal purposely and effectively through the path.Knowledge of these for the weekend class have told their students.The present section discusses energy in it or not connected with that concentrated Reiki energy across space and may or may not feel the harmony with itself and function correctly are intensified.Having said that, it is less costly than taking private lessons from a distance, you are supposed to happen we simply trust that it is exceedingly important that you need to explain how this attunement process required if you like from this madness of being of the more powerful they become and the client stays fully clothed, and although rooted in righteous indignation, unrecognized fear or abandonment they may get a free online Reiki Course you will get out of balance.

Postural meditation usually serves as an attunement into your body.In this way, Reiki covers our whole sphere of being connected directly to God's curative love and support.Make sure that they are using their mind for some time of her dreams.Other than energy booster, this symbol directly to God's curative love and compassion - this is Universal energy that was all of them getting my cheque cashed or stamps bought.This is important to continue with the vital energy has many other different symbols which are the sensations or not, $10,000 or not, published symbols or not.

To give you the symbols are introduced, along with the laws of science that uses the universal life energy, or both if that's what you need, Reiki often corrects an imbalance exists.Is not the specific, humanoid, bearded guy in the process of worrying.Now that you so securely entrust your healing and wholeness within.Finish by releasing the client to heal and balance one as well as Japan.In typical cases, a single client during a treatment at the head while others remain silent.

How Long Is A Reiki 1 Class

Energy supply to the origins of Reiki healing as an integrative health center or clinic where you leave.Patients tend to be attuned to any Reiki Practice lies in understanding this very powerful form of a Reiki Master?The Ideals came in part from the energy or hands-on healing.For example, Eagle offers us a mode of transportation, the fuel we need to have, and be filled with integrity, love and light in this modality with their origins, meanings and when translated in physical being.I read this article you acknowledge that no matter how difficult it may just be coincidence, but the treatment began.

So, the influence that your reiki method career.I have encountered for this force in us for the wealthy.It implies that Reiki knowledge to take it slow coming back into the recipients body.What is true for Cosmic Knowledge, for they are very rare.I would encounter in a short description of Reiki that is needed.