Practice

The benefits are undeniable: practice is the routine exercise required to maintain and develop any skill. Once this has been accepted, practice can then be further defined as maintenance and development. Maintenance usually requires review of previous developments. Therein lies the benefit of first defining developmental practice. After engaging in a practical activity the reward reinforcing such behavior, either real or imagined, marks the individual with a first impression. This motivates the desire that furthers development.

Being conscious of the degree to which a skill may progress, and the time commitment required to develop such a skill, may cause trepidation. Attending to the initial appeal may be sufficient but not necessary to overcome the paralytic fear that threatens to, and often does, thwart the progress of a beginner. This is why training from a skilled mentor is so highly valued. The benefit gained from the practical behavior is reinforced and the pupil develops rewarding habits.

Dream Journals

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'It's the touring that keeps our group from happening isn't it? The touring needn't keep us from developing.' He decisively takes on the name 'Rugard' as we circle through the yard, around a mid-sized tree, wide with branches draped into the snowed over ground. The snow is deep. We trudge between the tree and a small red wooden shed trimmed with white boards and lit with one single electric light. It's incandescent orange turns us toward the property's front. 'Two faeries escaping over the ford!' I reach into the deep snow banking the hole we've forged from our motions. My hand takes hold of an icy javelin, it's diameter larger than would be expected. I free the spear from the bank and launch it towards the form on the left fast fading in front of us. The night light blue hue about me finds highlight by the cumbersome projectile. Lumbering forward and inaccurately launched, the weapon fumbles off, many yards short the mark. Evacuated, we stand beside the hole. 'Wench!' In her curly black locks and evening dress, all smiles, dashes toward us. She spills into the hole, it's sides blackened by it's suddenly abysmal bottom. Magic am I? The two of us remain.

Love Letters

Ambivalent text. Cold.

Cold, a love letter makes a promise. A love letter fuels the drive to endure, until warmth returns.


The value of sincerity.

Limerent?

Small Treasures

Small rewards for counterattitudinal behavior tend to be more effective at changing attitudes than do large rewards. Large rewards act as justification in relieving cognitive dissonance where smaller rewards cannot. When a small reward is offered the reward itself is not enough to alleviate the discomfort of cognitive dissonance so an attitude change occurs.

Understanding your own attitudes takes some effort. An honest and accurate depiction of your innermost thought and feelings could be considered a valuable resource. Might the trait of introspection be one mastered through practice?


Casual or committed? If either, how so? Will these requests escalate incrementally? Let's just kiss and take it from there. I like to know what I can.

Should you have any further request, please feel at ease when using my telephone number: 506 536-3486. Motivated by the need to fulfill deficiencies, the most influential of which being physiological, my requests are physically demanding until I've reached goal-attainment and begin pursuing higher needs and ultimately the need for self-actualization. Aren't all efforts at goal-attainment physically demanding? Is there any reward or reinforcement without the work involved in the behavior? My needs go partially fulfilled while my social skills develop. Tact and a deeper understanding of the truth cultivate and nurture my social skills. Would it be unjust to objectify your person as the means to the end of personal gratification? Ideally, once physiological needs are met, the remaining safety, love, esteem, and needs for self-actualization are realized. Ideally, we help each other fulfill these needs. The healthy society is capable of fulfilling the needs of its individuals.

The Key

Key signatures: your own.

In the key of 'Hello, my name is:'

The Key
The Lock
The Treasure

Mind viced may lose each of these.

The treasure is dynamic equilibrium between three states: mind, body, and spirit.

Locked within three walls of a metaphysical nature are the treasures of balance, harmony, and peace.

But where is the key? Is it knowledge? First or second hand experience? Can you relate? Are you compassionate? Do you confuse the feelings of others for your own? The empathic individual. Are you confused by your feelings towards others? The key is self-knowledge.

I lost my keys :/