by atmara | Nov 5, 2015 | Compassion, Healing, Inspiration, TED Talks
According to TED.com: “Imagine being unable to say, “I am hungry,” “I am in pain,” “thank you,” or “I love you,” — losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius’s reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen — his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body.”
“Martin Pistorius is a web designer and author whose personal story borders on the unimaginable. In his book Ghost Boy, he tells the story of his return to consciousness after a horrible illness … and his struggle to tell the world that he was still there, inside his body, hoping to communicate.”
Enjoy this amazing and inspiring story.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Nov 2, 2015 | Art, Mandala Coloring, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
I found a lovely Celtic Tree of Life mandala for you to color at http://www.supercoloring.com/. There are also other celtic symbols and images there to color if you want more. I love this Celtic Tree of Life design and think it is very different from other mandalas for coloring that I have posted. And this one you can even color online if you don’t have coloring tools!
Download a full size image at:
http://www.supercoloring.com/sites/default/files/styles/coloring_full/public/cif/2015/03/celtic-tree-of-life-coloring-pages.png
To color online go to:
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/celtic-tree-of-life?colore=online
To find more images go to:
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/celtic-tree-of-life
Enjoy!
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Oct 29, 2015 | Healing, Inspiration, Mindfullness, TED Talks, Video
According to TED.com: “When poet Robin Morgan found herself facing Parkinson’s disease, she distilled her experiences into these four quietly powerful poems — meditating on age, loss, and the simple power of noticing.”
“Poet, author, editor and activist Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books, including the Sisterhood Is Powerful anthologies, the best-selling The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, and six books of poetry. The recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry) and other honors, and the former editor-in-chief of Ms., she cofounded (with Simone de Beauvoir) the Sisterhood Is Global Institute and cofounded (with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem) the Women’s Media Center.”
Enjoy this thought provoking talk.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
