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An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

Professor David Roochnik
Boston University

585BC – 325BC
presocratics
Socrates 469-399 (70)
Plato 429-347 (82)
Aristotle 348-322 (62)

dialectical (dialegesthai, “to converse”)

Goal
(1) explain the historical influence of the Greeks on subsequent developments in Western philosophy
(2) examine the philosophical value of their work.

Lecture 1

Philosophy means “love [philia] of wisdom [sophia]”

What is wisdom? (she) a preliminary answer: being able to answer the “perennial” or “fundamental” questions

dialectically (dialegesthai “to converse”)

1. I seek wisdom and I believe through your teaching I will gain understanding and knowledge. With this knowledge, I will be one step closer to find her and deciphering her enigmas. No.

2. democracy – (p165) demos, the people + kratein, to rule
     1. Government by the people
   psychology – (p512) psyche, soul, mind + logos, word, reasoning
     1. the science dealing with the mind
  physics – (p479) physis, nature
     1 the science dealing with the properties, changes, interactions of matter and energy
   myth – (p421) mythos
     1. a traditional story serving to explain some phenomenon, custom
   autonomy – (p41) autos, self + nomos, law
     2. existing or functioning independently
   political – (p491)
     1 of, concerned with, or engaged in government, polities

Lecture 2

Homer 750 BC (poet)
 Odyssey
 Iliad

muthos (myth or story)

Hesiod 700 BC (shepherd)
Theogony
Tell me these things, Olympian Muses,
From the beginning, and tell which of them came first,
In the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss.
But the Gaia, the Earth, came into being,
Her broad bosom the ever-firm foundation of all,
and Tartaros, dim in the underground depths,
and Eros, loveliest of all Immortals

logos (reason & speech\word) rational speech
Biology – rational account, of life
Eros (love, sexual desire)
chaos (abyss, gap, emptiness)

Thales 585 BC (the founder) [water] (empiricist)
natural philosophy
phusis (nature) physics
phusiologoi (those who offer a logos of phusis)
[arche] (origin, beginning, source, first principle, ruling principle)

empirical observation + rational thought

being and becoming, the one and the many

1. a story that explains that which can not be explained. The Bible. Yes, but I think that kind of life would be empty and not worth living.
2. Simular in the fact it all came from nothing. But the Genesis story does not build a family tree of creation.
3. His style of rationalization by physical observation It was an inductive process that resembled a deductive solution

Lecture 3

3 phusiologoi | philosophers of miletus

Thales founder of the Milesian school
1. Anaximandor 610 – 540 (rationalist) [to apeiron, “the indefinite”, “the unlimited”, “the infinite”]
2. Anaximenes 550 [air]
3. Xenophanes 570 [god] (god is one) Being and Becoming, of the One and the Many

Pythagoras 570-500 [kosmos] (pythagorean theorem)
kosmos – an orderly whole, and its order is derived from a mathematical structure (a2 + b2 = c2)

1. Yes, I would think it would be indeterminate. The only box I would put it in is the one of an abstract term like arche or God.
2. God, energy, or string theory
3. Not yet. Once people are forced to have their physical entity connected to the master psyche.
4. The concepts we call emotion, soul, spirit, any of the metaphysical aspects of life

Lecture 4

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Lecture 5

Parmenides 515 – 440 (extrem rationalists)
[denies becoming (doxa)]
3 “ways of Inquiry” 3 basic intellectual options
1. way of truth (aletheis) | Being is
2. way of Non-Being (nothingness) | Being is
3. way of Appearance (doxa) | Being and non-Being are

2. non-Being is impossible to think, for thinging is Being
#3 “for the same thing is for thinking and for being”

doxa – “appearance”, “the way things seem to be”, “belief”, and “opion”.

3. essence of doxa is the delief in multiplicity and change. Becoming requires changing fom non-Being to Being, but non-Being is unintelligible.
#7 “not let habit born from much experience compel you… to direct your sightless eye… but judge by reason (logos)”
Habit and experience gives us doxa

1. There is only one true path of thinking: that Being is and that it is not possible for it not to be.

Being is eternal, one, and indivisible – this is the notion of a pure rationalist.
Eternal – orelse it came or would become non_being one & indivisible – division means one part of Being would not be another and Being can not “not be”

doxa A. Heraclitus affirms the flux of experience (E)
aletheia B. Parmenides denies the truth of doxa (R)

#1 Yes. Scientists now days relie more on the data that is provide by their intranent then on their own senses. Since a human sences are compairabe limited to the spectum of reality that we now know exist.
#2. I find thous to be interesting words from a man who spent the last ten years of his live clinically insane, but none the less I agree that Parmenides would not be someone you would consider a close friend. I would presum he looked at people; then graded and classified them in somekind of selfdesigned hierarcy.

Lecture 6

Leucippus was the originator of atomic theory
Democritus of Abdera 460 [reality is quantitative]
Atomism Theory had 2 components: atoms (atomos) & void
atomos – uncuttable, indivisible
infinite number, differ in shape and size, move through the void, combine to form objects
17th century (corpuscular philosophy)
maintains that reality and appearence are difference

Empedocles 490 – 430 (pluralist) [chance]
2 components: roots & forces
Roots (4) [combine and separate to form sensible objects
fire – air – water – earth
Cosmic Forces (2)
love > attracts > roots combine
strife > repel > roots disperse

Anaxagotas of clazomanae 500 – 430 (pluralist)
2 components: seeds & mind
seed – elemental particles
mind – universal force (animating principle of living things)

#1. All three combine feing and becoming into to a single theory. Each one believes there are building blocks (atoms, roots, & seeds) one believes they combined via random chance while the other two believe in some kind of cosmic force is at play.
#2 Since atoms only have the properties of size and shape they can only have quantitative values and not qualitive values like sweetness. Democritus believed the doxa of sweetness is a human “convention” agreement of what the exsperence of those atoms combineding is like.

Lecture 7

Sophists – itinerant (walking) professors
Gorgias of Leontini 483 – 736
Hippias of Elis 485 – 415
Prodicus of Ceos 470 – 400

Protagoras 485 – 415 (humanist) (R)
#1 “Human being is the measure of all things – of things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not”

Thought Kosmos and arche were unknowable
Humans = “measure”, of all reality

Relativism – view that whenther something is true or false, good or bad, dependson the person or group who holds that truth or value.

Absolutism – vies that a truth or a value is independent of who holds that truth or value.
Absolutist delieves that something can be true or good in and of itself.

Rhetoric – art of persuasion, art of speaking well

Rhetoric and relativism go hand in glove
– relativism denises absolute truth or values
– if there are no absolutes, then truth and values come from human agreement or convention

#3″there are two opposing argnments (logoi)
#4 “to make the weaker argument the stronger”

Contemporary Sophist = Post Modernists

#1 I fall more on the absoluist side of the fench but being more of an absobutisl doesn’t mean beartless it means somethings in life need a finitire answer, or else the creature called man will run wide like it did in German in the 1930’s.
#2 If truths and values are determined by whose who can exspress their views the strongest. Then those with the best rhetric skills shape the sacity and those that are the best teachers of rhetoric shape the argument.

Lecture 8

Socrates of Athens 469 – 399 (ugly – smelly – bum)
Executed for corrupting the youth
Never wrote a word because
1) fare from enhancing our memory, only weakens it
2) written work is outside us. The work circulates in the world, fixed and indiscriminate, always subject to misinterpretation by different people

“what is it?”
“what is the best life for a human being?”
what is justice?
what is courage?

5th Century Athens
480 & 490 Persian War
478 Delian League
Perides (Parthenon) 450 – 429
431 Peloponnesian War (Athens vs Sparta)
404 Athens defeat (thirty tyrants)
403 democracy restored in Athens
399 Socrate executed

#1 Have to read Essential Reading

#2 I believe courage is doing what is “right” even when fear is in the marrow of your bones. Justice is not a question I feel is easily answered. It is one that may have an answer in the world of relativism.

Lecture 9

Plato of Athens 429 – 348 (not a student of Socrates)
 Parents: Ariston & Perictione
  from distinguished and wealthy Athenian families

Corpus – body, complete work
twenty-five dialogues (Platonic dialogue)
wrote on every possible philosophical subject
E- The Apology – Crito, Euthyphro
M – Meno – Republic
L – The Sophist – The Statesman – Parmenides

never expressed his own views in his own voice

#1 Yes, mostly in personal life choices, especially the ones that have had the strongest impact on my journey Some times in business decisions and hobbies when I want to improve.

Lecture 10

Book 1 of the Republic
Sophist: Thrasymachus – Taught rhetoric in Athens from 430-400. (analyzed the role of emotion in persuasion.
Basic position: justice is the advantage of the strong
Example: in Hitler Germany, whatever was advantageous to the Nazis would have been just.

A. Socrates asks Thrasymachus a question.
1. Do you think it is just to bey all laws? (Yes)
2. When the ruling body or ruler is creating its laws, does it sometimes make mistakes? (Yes)
3. When the ruler makes a mistake, it creates a law that is actually to his disadvantage.
(Because it is just to obey all laws, sometimes it is just to obey laws that are disadvantageous for the ruling body.)
Contradiction: S is P & not P
S = Justice is advantage and not advantage

Elenchus – refutation (philosophical argument, logos)
Relies on one single point must people are willing to grant: people make mistakes

Plato believes the human soul wants knowledge
Relativism requires one to give up the desire for knowledge. Plato asks the reader if they want knowledge, then focuses them to look inside themselves. They then becoming philosophers.

#1 Need Essential reading materials

Lecture 11

Self-reference argument (there are no truths” or “all truths are relative”)

Theaetetus
Protagoras (relativist)
1. If all truth is relative, if there is no absolute truth, then no one is really wiser than anyone else.
2. Protagotas think he is wise and charges a large sum to study with him.
3. By his own reckoning, he is no wiser than anyone else.
4. Thus, he has no right to teach or charge tuition.

Heraclitus (found of relativism)
everything flows, no stable reality whatsoever
1. If nothing is stable, then words have no stable meaning.
2. If words have no stable meaning, then there can be no true statement.]3. Heraclitus believes, “nothing is stable” is a true statement.
4. If nothing is stable, then the very sentence “nothing is stable” is not stable and, hence, has no meaning

Plato believes Protagoras and Heraclitus are practitioner’s of muthos (myth, storytelling), not logos (rational account, reason, rationality)

#1 Yes. Since truth is relative to the community consenses, then if the community agrees that nothing is stale, for all time, but for this moment the statement is true. It may not have been true yesterday or it may not be true tomorrow, but at this moment in time, we say it is true, therefore it is true.
#2 Plato. I have never really been one that bends to the wind of change but more of one rooted in historical truths.

Lecture 12 (Platonic Forms)

eidos – Form: is what numerous particular things have in common (beautiful things – fac, painting, sunset all have in common “beauty itself” or “the Form of Beauty”.) [physical?] (idea)

Can aretê  (virtue, excellence) be taught? aretê (ê = ê)

Socrates won’t answer a quality “like” question until he gets a definition “is” first

What is aretê itself?
He wants to know what all the particular instances have in common. (the Form of virtue)
“Even if they are many and various, all of [the virtuews] have one and the same form which makes them virtues”.

aporia – lack of a way out, perplexity, or impasse

Mends Paradox
1. 2 responses to “what is it?”
1) I know the answer
2) I don’t know the answer
2. If I know, I can not learn, because I already know. If I do not know, I can do learn, because I cannot recognize the right answer.
3. Therefore there is no such thing as learning.

#1 A fair question is one that the asker is willing to answer. I think there are certain “what is it” questions that are valid, but to hold the belief “all things” must be defined to be identified works only in the world of the physical; what about the world of the non-physical like the spiritual. What is the Form of the spiritual world? What about “things” that are internally felt and externally shown. I do not need to define good or right, I can feel and know it when I see it. Relativists are the ones that need to be told love is good murder is bad.

Lecture 13 (Recollection)

Phaedo
In measuring sensible objects, such as sticks, equality is never exact or perfect.
idea of perfect equality = “the equal itself”

ordinary intellectual activites invoke standards and ideas that are perfect

Experience is always imperfect
Therefore, the Idea of perfect equality (Form), of “the equal itself,” can not come from experience
“the equal itself” must be prior to experience

Recollection – human ability to use a priori Forms

a priori – that which is prior to, but determinative of, experience

soul is immortal
knowledge of the Forms before we were born reincarnated

Kant
DNA

#1 Review equal its self more
#2 Yes. We, todate have determined that physical and psychological traits are passed on through DNA which would lead us to the belief that other traits and characteristics can and may be passed on. If you and the variable of the spirit and/or soul then you can logically increase the probability of some kind of preprogramming and knowledge.

Lecture 14

Forms > Being (Parmenidean)
Sensible reality > Becoming (Heraclitean)

Psychê – Soul
soul is like “harmony” produced by the strings of a lyre (body) although it is not exactly a material thing, it is produced by, and inseparable from, material things. (This view of the human mind is commonly held among contemporary neurologist: the human mind/consciousness is a byproduct of a material entity the brain (Epiphenomenlism)

Why am I sitting here now?
Presocratics – strictly physical or mechanistic you are sitting here now because your bones and sinews moved in a certain fashion
Socrates – he is sitting here now because he thinks it is good to do so.
Value – laden nature of human experience

Presocratics look at a thing
Socratics is concerned with talking about things, not things themselves.

“Idea of the Good” = archeê
It is what man seeks, without it, nothing has value

#1 Yes. I believe that consciousness is more than just an electric signal firing through synapses in the brain. If it was just a mechanical process why are we unable to make ages think, act, or talk like a man? My view closely resembles those put forward in the Phaedo.

Lecture 15

Parable of the Cave.
They see the sun and realize that it is the source of light and life (Idea of the Good)

Those with wisdom (philosophers) whether they are male or female, should rule. Wisdom is gained by studying the Idea of the Good.

Democracy is bad because it is ruled by opinion or doxa. All citizens, those who are knowledgeable and those who are ignorant, get to vote.
Paradoxically, what is best about a democracy is that it allows criticism of democracy.

It is more important that people be educated well than that they be allowed freedom.
Knowledge should be authoritative
Everything from private possessions to sexual relations is governed by the rulers (philosopher Kings)

#1 Through a democracy those that are “ignorant” have the ability to be educated, this can not and is actually forbidden in Plato’s world. Also by allowing the freedoms of a democracy all voices and ideas have a chance of being heard thus allowing for new forms of ideas concepts, & forms to be discovered and discussed. Finally, what of war in Plato’s world, why would a silver or bronze fight when they have no say or power.
#2 My view has changed over the years on censorship. I am open to debate on the items that are to be censored and disclaimers if needed on other items in the hands of young impressionable minds I strongly support censorship.

Lecture 16

Presocratics > Scients
1. Evolutionary Biology
2. Neuroscience
Neither con provide a sufficient account of the value-laden nature of human experience

Sophits > Postmodernist
There is no independent Truth
What counts is not the Truth, but who wins the argument

Simply put, Platonic philosophy can’t be argued without begging the question (my game my rules)

The dialogue, for Plato, is perennial. The dialogue itself is the final answer.

#1Yes. To stop fighting is to concede that Nazi German was an acceptable display of human values.
#2 No. Again I go to my comment on having ages/apes walk, talk, and act like a man If it is only a matter of electricity and chemistry why are humans the only animals that have the ability to express reason. While is his is refined, mine contains the knowledge of the 21st century.

Lecture 17

Aristotle 384-322 (the Philosopher)
son of the court physician of Macedonia
@ 17 enters the Academy (Plato’s School)
Tutored Alexander (the Great) 343-342
Founded Lyceum 335
Dies in 322 one year after Alexander

Corpus – whole world, from the sky to earth
logic
ethics
physics
metaphysics
biology
astronomy
meteorology
mathematics
psychology
zoology
rhetoric
aesthetics
politics

Theoria – to look at, to view, to behold
Theoretical treatise, the author reports on what they “see”
“The reason is that sight, more than any of the other senses, gives us knowledge of things.”

believed in the objective, non-relative Truth “all human beings by nature desire to know

faith in doxa (appearance, opinion)

phenomena (phainomena) – the way thins appear
perception is the ultimate source of knowledge

endoxa (reputable opinions)

The world lets itself be seen by, it shows itself to, the discerning “eye” of the philosopher.

The modern universe is not discoverable by the “naked eye” but by the telescope or the microscope

Aristotle understands far better than modern science what it is like to be a human being on earth, seeing the world through the “naked eye”.

#1 An idea of how something works or why something is the way it is. His definition relies more on using the sense of sight. A theory in his case would revolve around the physical observation of the phenomena through the sense of sight or the naked eye.

Lecture 18

natural being as that which has “within itself a principle (archê) of motion and rest

Another way of speaking about nature is in terms of its shape or form.

The nature of a bed is not wood
1. Wood (matter) is only potentially a bed
2. An actual bed has the form of a bed

the form is the nature more than the matter is
substance becomes visible by having a form

actuality and potentiality = form and matter
motion is the actualization of potentiality

eidos – species
the biological world is divided into species & genera

Forms

Platonic

mainly of values
universal
adjectives

Aristotelian

hylomorphism (matter + form)
not
noun

#1 Need essential reading

#2 Depends on if you believe in evolutionary biology. I have yet to see any proof of man’s evolution since Homer. So once I “see” the evidence we can come back to this question.

Lecture 19

4 causes
cause – answer to a question
1. material – of what is it constituted?
2. efficient – what moves it?
3. formal – what is it?
4. final – what is its purpose/goal (telos)

Presocratics
Thales – water material cause
Anaxagoras – mind – efficient cause

Plato – Form – formal
Aristotle – teleological – final

Teleological View of Nature
means that natural entities, not just human beings, have purposes (teet for sake of chewing) – nature does nothing pointlessly

Spinoza 1632AD – 1677AD
1) Human beings, do thing purposively, with an end in view
2) Human beings are ignorant of real causes in the physical world.
3) Human beings project purpose onto nature
4) Final causes are human fabrications (superstitions)
5) Nature proceed from necessity
6) Purpose of modern science is to discover laws that govern natural motion.

A. Modern physics (quantitative) language (mathematics)
B. Aristotelian physics (qualitative) language (ordinary)

Determinist view – front teeth are useful for chewing is really just an accident that happened to enhance the prospects for survival of the animal with teeth “come to be as they do either always or usually”
bee -> pollen

The primary purpose of Aristotelian theoria is to articulate human experience

Edmund Husserl (The Crisis of European Science)
– modern science, which is essentially mathematical in character, is fundamentally limited.
– fantastic at understanding how things work and how they move, it can not explain how human beings experience the world
– cannot explain what things mean (phenomenology)

#1 Non-sympathetic, I believe HB’s do things with an end in mind, like a baby crying when it needs to be changed or feed. I agree that humans, like scientists, are ignorant in many matters and that “we” project a purpose on nature, but, even a fool is right sometimes, and just because you make a projection, does not automatically make it wrong. I ask a simple question, “Do humans need bees?” What about “Does nature need bees?” My projection of a bee’s purpose is supported by the wonderful taste of honey and the effect that cross pollenation has on nature. Just because we cannot logos the “why” doesn’t mean the “it” doesn’t exist, it just means we can not “see” it yet.

Lecture 20 soul (psyche)

soul – the Form of a natural body that is potentially alive. (soul is the activity of the body, the actuality of the body)
soul = life
form -> actuality
matter -> potentiality

“If the eye were an animal, sight would be its soul.”

Plants have souls.
nutritive soul – nourish and reproduce
3 components
1. That which is nourished, the body
2. That by which the body is nourished, the food
3. that which actually nourishes, the nutritive soul (activity)

1. That which sees, the eye
2. That by which the eye sees, the visible object
3. seeing (activity)

Hierarchy
Plant -> Animals
underdeveloped oat tree -> fully developed oak tree (telos)

#1 The Aristotelian concept of the soul is more of the action something does to reach telos, where the Judeo-Christian soul is a metaphysical part of a human being that is immortal.
#2 A nutritionist may say no, but I think it does a fairly good accounting of the process when taking into account the time period.

Lecture 21

orderly cosmos – all things  – proper places
earth -> moon -> sun -> planets -> stars
(sublunar) earth – air – fire – water
_ plants -> animals -> humans(logos) -> God
There is movement, there must be original source
Movement is eternal, Time is eternal
original source is eternal
original source cannot be moved
Thero is one, primary, the unmoved mover

Movement – is the actualization of a potentiality
pure actuality – no matter – it is the final cause
original source is God
God has no morals not generous or loving or just.
God is pure thinking, which is the highest activity, and it thinks only of itself (God thinks about God – Thought thinking itself)

#1 Not sure about this question. If nothing else it should be used in a muthos
#2 Aristotl’s God is a god of pure logic. One of mathematics, its only purpose to think and calculate itself. Unlike the unfeeling and uncaring god of Aristotle, the God of the three core religions is the God of the people, it loves cares, and punishes its children. There is a parent-child relationship with trust, love, and friendship. Both are eternal both are singular.

Lecture 22

polis – city (human final cause)
Human hierarchy
1. House Hold (family)
 A. Man & Women (reproduction)
 B. Master-Slave (flourish)
  i. Master – rational foresight
  ii. Slave – weak reasoning (strong body)
  iii. natural Slave – significantly inferior intelligence
2. Village
3. Polis (city) [telos] “for sake of living well”

Human beings are “by nature a political animal”
Aristotle’s Argument
1. “nature does nothing pointlessly”
2. “a Human being is the only animal with rational discourse. (logos)
3. The purpose of rational discourse is to articulate what is good and bad, just and unjust, beneficial and harmful.
4. Therefore, the human being is by nature political.

#1 I agree that some human beings are born with certain mental and or physical gifts. My reasoning may be the same, but how I act on that knowledge is vastly different. Aristotle’s reasoning could be used to justify the 1930 cleansing in Germany, it also supports the notion of a class system. I find it sad that both Plato & Aristotle, both men are of “family standing” and support the belief of a class system on the back of a man, [who was the sone of a midwife and stone mason] who was an ugly, smelly, bum.

#2 Without his belief that nature does nothing by chance, he would not search for the telos for man. Being he is a philosopher by default his search is for wisdom, but the knowledge of wisdom is not an end it is no telos. He still needs action with the wisdom to find and end. This leads him to determine that through logos in communion with other men he finds telos.

Lecture 23

the ultimate purpose to human existence = the highest good
the highest good = happiness (eudaimonia) flourishing

What is the ‘proper function [ergon] (work) of a human being?
The virtue or excellence (arete) of something depends on its “function”

A. The function of a carpenter is to build houses.
B. The function of an eye is to see.
C. The function of a human being is rational activity

Human excellence or virtue is the actualization of our potential to be rational.

Happiness = activity (energeia) of the soul according to virtue or excellence.

technical rationality: a carpenter thinks about building a house
ethical rationality: a person wonders how best to help a friend in need – judgment – sizing things up (practical wisdom)

#1 Yes, Without a purpose we will just float through life, never really touching the ground seeing the clouds, or smelling the flowers. I also believe the highest good is not happiness but love, and this love comes in many shapes and sizes.

#2 Happiness is a sense of being or a state of mind. It can be created from within with the thought of a happy memory or it can be felt and transferred from watching a dog run, a hug from a friend, or simply listing to the ocean.

Lecture 24

The theoretical (the philosophical) life, the life spent studying the world, is the best life of all.

1. Least need for external goods.
2. Most pleasant
3. Most like that led by God. By theorizing, we actualize what is most divine in us.
4. Paradoxically, the best human life is that spent trying to be the least human.
#1 Yes, and yes. He and my fellow brother and sister philosophers, currently know and unknown will fill me with logos I seek in order to help the modern scientist find their way back to humanity and remember what it is like to be a human being on this planet they call Earth and we call home. To remind them that fire is pulled up to the heavens because that is its natural place.

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the 12 Disciples

*1 Simon > Peter
*1 Andrew
*2 James
*2 John
Philip
Bartholomew
Thomas
Matthew
James
Thaddaeus
Simon
Jadus Iscariot

*1 Simon > Peter “rock”

fisherman – Andrew’s brother

Crucified

1st to invite non-Jews to join the early chrurch

*1 Andrew

fisherman – Simon’s brother

Crucified

Went to Greece and Ukraine

*2 James the Greater

fisherman – son of Zebedee

Behead in 44 AD by King Herod Agrippa Ifell to the sword

Spain

 

*2 John

fisherman – son of Zebedee

Old age Ephesus (100 years old)

 

Philip

Crucified

Bartholomew

flayed alive then crucified

Turkey, India, or Armenia

 

Thomas

speared

Went East to Syria, Iran and India.

 

Levi > Matthew

tax collector

speared

 

James the Lesser

son of Alphaeus

beaten to death

Thaddaeus (Jude)

fell to the sword

Persia

 

Simon the Zealot

crucified or sawed in half

Persia

 

Matthias

stoned to death

 

Jadus Iscariot

Suicide by hanging

Paul

 

Mary Magdalene

healed from “7 demons”

Mark

Luke

The term “apostle” or “apostolic” means messenger and is derived from the Greek word apostolos.

The Apostles were the movement’s cutting edge, spreading the message of “the way” across the vast trade network of the ancient world and leaving small Christian communities in their paths.

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that’s my King

Amen: so be it
old: 30
new: 50

8 min

  1. inform & instruct
  2. tan your hid (correct you)
  3. warm you heart
  4. provoke the will (to do what the Lord would have you)

men are created 2 pray

prayer #1

16 min
praises before our p________________
blessings before ___________________

Friends  before enemies

19min Welllll
everything above nothing. God gave me

Holy, Holy is the __________________
NSEW

27min
yes, Lord

34 min
spiritual gifts
speaking tongue
if you don’t know, keep quit

23 pSalm (washington post)

thee East the West

40 min
Brother (same Father)
— Relisten x 2

46 min – don’t you know

51 min – who is your, King

56 min – my King covers all my needs

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How to Engage and Write about Anything

Writing

  • Essay
  • Letter
  • Report

Skills

  • Critical
  • Analytical

Literary Genres

  • Fiction
  • Essay
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Autobiography

Rhetoric

  • Deductive reasoning
  • Commonplaces
  • Pathos

Writing process

  • Researching
  • First draft
  • Editing
  • Rewriting

 

Lecture 1

11/19/2017 | 0945 – 1145

What kinds of questions need to be asked in the first place
 Active – analytical reading strategies
 Passive – receptive reading habits

Voice: a persona on paper that is both strong and flexible

Persuasive prose
Good writing invites interaction

Lecture 2 – 11/19/2017 | 1145 - 1245

Prectitical responses – what feelings it gave them
The key to becoming a competent writer lies 1st in being an attentive reader

Critical skills of engagement
1st Life – you read it the first time
2nd Life – you consider and then reflect on what it is you’ve just read (words, details, 1st or 3rd person)
3rd Life – you read though it yet again

Lecture 3 – 11/19/2017 | 1345 - 1452

Genre – type of writing (style, subject matter, elements)
Poetry – uses language in unexpected ways
Drama – something that is performed in front of an audience (4th wall)
Prose – writing that tells some kind of story
Essay – writing that seeks to persuade and inform, to support a particular position.
Autobiography – story of a life, told by the person who has lived it.

Made it to shelter, none to soon
For damp the air start to feel
As rain I know to come
On platform I heaved,
From latter I com


Laura said, “It won’t be long now. Here, give me that”.
What do you Want that for” Edie responded.
Laura – in pain – said, “It helps with the pain. Maybe. Can’t make it any worse.”
Edie gave it to her and asked, “Does it hurt now?”

Lecture 4 – 11/19/2017 | 1453 - 1547

Voice – sometimes called tone, style, or even diction. (critical component)

1. Sussy you would never believe the wedding I went to, at Ourtown Country Club, this weekend. The bride wore a pink gown and the groom wore a white tuxedo. There were 12 bridesmaids and only five groomsmen. Four houndard people showed up, but the DJ and caters where a no show (something about a catering accident). I ended up dancing to some kid playing the harmonica – he was cute. Then when the pizza’s showed up, an argument started ending with the bride getting knocked out. My mom made me leave after that, so I’m not sure how it ended. Anyways see you on Friday.
XoXo Jessi

2. Howard, I think we may need to disown that side of the family.

Lecture 5 – 11/19/2017 | 1631 - 1738

Knowing your reader
Construct an audience

Know
What you want to say?
How you want to say it?
Why you want to say it?

When you write, you construct not only an authorial persona, but you also construct an audience
1. On Monday 10th of September 2017 David Wilfered past on at the glories age of 98. He is servived by his lovely wife Sylvie and his three children – Ella, Peter, and David Jr. During his illustrious life he attened Youngblood Academy, served in the Navy, and was a highschool science teacher. All are invited to attend his celebration of life party at St. Lukes on September 29th at 12:00 PM.

4. Adm. Johnson:

I regret to inform you that Capt. Wilfred died on September 10th 2017. I know you to where close friends, he spoke highly of you.
Sincerly,
David Jr.

Lecture 6 – 11/19/2017 | 1739 - 1854

Make your opening as effective and engaging as possible

Successful arguments
Open
Organize
Support
Conclude

Effective strategy for opening an argument
Description of the topic at hand and explanation of its importance

Firmly fixing an argument in a specific time and place/making a substantial claim about what’s at stake

Craft an introduction to an argument that balances a specific description of a topic with a substantial explanation of its significance

1. I’m writing to appeal your recent devial of coverage for a MRi procedure; to identify acute pain and future medical treatment options. I was informed by my doctor that the first procedure did not cover a large enough area for an accurate diagnosis.

Your letter stated “medically unnecessary” as the reason for the procedure denial. I am requesting a review of my case, as I am currently unable to preform my daily job requirements due to acute pain.

After viewing your letter with Doc. Bentivites, he is willing to discuss the reason why he believes a 2nd MRi is required; to ensure the proper diagnosis and medical treatment are proscribed and followed through with.

Lecture 7 – 11/20/2017 | 1739 - 1854

Coherence
How arguments are structured and presented

Chronological structure
5 paragraph model
Keyterms

Once you’ve introduced them to your language, you have to keep speaking it and expanding the vocabulary

Language
Terms
Meanings

Transitions
Repetition – variation
Sequence or series

2. While the definition of Government is to exercise authority over a state, the purpose of government is to secure its boarders, garinty the peoples civil rights, and protect their freedooms to include speech, libity, and religion to name a few. But, alas, like all great man made vessels used to control other men; they become to powerful, to centralized and to over reaching to the point that it intrudes on the very rights and freedoms it was designed to protect.

Our founding fathers greatest fear was a centerlized government that wielded unchecked fiscal and social power of the people. A prime example of it’s fiscal power can be seen in the ever increasing national det. We can all understand the need to “brow” overy now and then for capital project and inferstuctures upgrades, but to berdom the next generation so the current can live high off the hog instead of tighting its belt in the form of cuts and sunsetting old, wastful projects, programs, and subsities. Why is it the only answer to the constent money shortage is to go to the troth of taxes and bedone the “fat hogs of production” with higher taxes. How many times does Peter have to be robed to pay Marry so Paul doesn’t have to stop playing Xbox on his flat screen and get a job. Why must my proginy eat topromin so someone else can eat Papa Merphys.

The power of social change use to stop at a states bourders, then in 18xx the rights of states where taken by the federal government. Most people incorrectly believe the civil was fought to end slavey, when in fact the war was to keep the union together, the emanination of the slaves an added benefit. Since then the federal government has increasing overrided and forceable inforced its edics on the states. Some of the most noticeable examples are slavery, business, school, abortions, sodomi, and marriage. While you may be in support of the ends you must be wiery of the means that these ends came by.

Lecture 8 – 11/20/2017 | 1848 - 2100

Key strategies
1st – evidence does not explain itself
– Show your reader how and why your proof is relevant to your argument
– – explain how a particular piece of evidence helps make your case to an audience
2nd – direct link between your evidence and your conclusion that is definitive, and based on caused-effect
3rd – concessions – admitting that afternative viewpoint exist (serves to strengthen your own argument

3. Was now truly the right time for the PAEC? While no one can argue with the aesthetily pleasing structure sitting where the old Toys R Us building is , that on a clear day has one of the best views of t X; some in cluding myself may question the timing and price.

We, as citicezens have been aschere by a handpicked Blue Ribbon Panel that the city need and could afoud the PAEC, but I uonder if the 5 year build or else pay requirement attached to the Government loan to buy the old Toys R Us property had any influence on the speed of the decision to move forward. Then there is the capital cost of the project.

While some, may say the $34,000.000 capital cost for the PAEC project is an investment in building a strong downtown core for the City of Fedeal Way; I would like to remind them of some of the City of Federal Ways other “downtown” projects. Let us start with the “Crystle Place” a multistory located on the site of the old AMC north movie theather, Ooops! Im sorry, after years of being told the deal was almost signed it simply didn’t happen – apparently the ginancal backers did not find downtown Federal Way a good investment. In order to capitalize on the inical investment to purchase the property, the city, in 20xx built Downpark I, at a cost of $xx. Agter only being opened for xx months the city government made the fiscal responsible decision to tair up the xx month old park and replace it with, wait for it, you quessed it, a band new park. The new downtown park came in under budget at @xx (true cost is not known to the large amount of labor that was provided by the park dept.) This final cost brings the total downtown park cost (minus lost property tax revenue) to $xx. Now has take a look at one more downtown project that the Federal Way tax payers have forcable invested in.

That’s say hypateticly you wanted to buy sometime, and that said something has had the same sales price for more then a year, no. three years. So you go to buy the said item only to be told by the salesperson – we will call them xx – that there is now another interested party and that the sales price – that has not moved in 3 years is now $xx? A xx% increase! Not sure about you, but any fiscally responsible I know would walk away from the deal. So what does the City of Federal Way do, they get the price lowed by x% and tell everyone they saved us $300K. That is ow the city and tax payers became the owner of another run down building. (I will add the city did just sell a piece of the Target to x to build another hotel – which will take business and jobs from the current hotels – on an up note the low paying jobs created at the new hotel count against the new job creation requirements that are part of the NMTC and CBDG funding deals used to build the PAC. But I get a head of myself, we will look at the PAEC fund next.

Lecture 9 – 11/20/2017 | 2111 - 2212

Conclusions – finish off an argument in way that solidify your claims and make your case
Must include a summary of the highlight of an argument
Negative consequences – underscore the negative things that could happen
No viable alternative – negative consequence plus adding that other alternative conclusions are not viable
Positive consequences – underscore the fact that some potentially positive things will not be manifested.
Importance of using the conclusion to recap the main thesis and key points of your argument.

1. I ask you to think of the lives of our progeny and their progeny if we continue as mere British subjects with no voice, then I ask, that you imagine the future as a free people. A people of equal stating of nation in the eyes of the court of the world. Where your progeny will not be subjects but Kings and Queens of a new world and their progeny will not feel the chains of servitude but the fresh air of freedom and the hope of prosperity, that they then may pass to their progeny for generations to come. Those are the choices we have; the simple path of chains and subjecthood or the unpleasent business of laying the cornerstone of freedom that one day our progeny can continue to build a nation upon that will show the world the power of a free people.

Lecture 10 – 11/21/2017 | 0620 - 0832

Poerty is – plays with words and imagery in an unexpected way

Call our attention to certain words or combinations of words

Poetic devices
metaphor – compairs one thing to another
“her eyes were oceans”
Simile – comparison between two things by using the words “like or “as.
“her eyes where like the ocean”
Synecdoche – a word describing a part to mean the whole
“all hands on deck”
Metonymy – word that describes something associated with an idea is used in place of the logical word.
“The White House said today”

1. It was a cold and rainy day.
Rain fall
like
ice, sheets of

cold day
on
bitter, night was

2. She was a tall, thin women with brown eyes and short, dark hair.
Tall thin like graceful gazel
Eyes brown as mud pies
Hair short dark as starless ocean night

4. He was excited to learn that his sister was coming home soon.
Excited, he was
learn he did
soon to come
Home, she would be

Lecture 11 – 11/21/2017 | 0855 - 1011

Diction – word choice (definition, connotation, and association)
Syntax – word order; the grammatical ordering of a sentence so that it makes sense
Common sentence structure = Subject – Verb – Object

Images can be discerened if we think hard about it. – it is what is hard (or initially confusing)
About a poem – that makes it so good and so interesting

1. I was driving along the road. I saw my favorite coffee shop and decided to stop.
I decided to stop at my favorite coffee shop since I was already driving along the road it was on.

2. There is nothing better then hot coffee with cream and sugar on a cold morning.
Cold mornings are always better with a hot coffee with cream and sugar.

4. I drove around for a while before I was able to find the on-ramp.
I did not find the on-ramp; until, I had driven around for a while.

Lecture 12 – 11/21/2017 | 1030 - 1127

Drama is performance.
Presentation style is key (inflection, emphasis, and enthusiasm)

1. Anger
“You’re late again!”, John’s mother said angerly.
“I’m am not! You clock is wrong.” John responded.
“No, your watch is wrong! And “where were you tonight?”
John angerly walking up the stairs responded,
“In any event, I’m home right now.” John continued to walk to his room at the end of the hall as he informed her, he was with friends and that she did not know them.

4. Jane had just walked out of the kitchen when John had started walked through the front door.
“You’re late again: she said.
“I’m note late. I believe your clock is wrong”, he responded.
“No, double check your watch, I think it might be off.: she said as she sait down on the forest reen coach in the living room.
John took off his rain jacket as he responded, “Im any event, I am home now. What show are you going to watch?”
“Not sure yet. Where were you tonight?”
“Out with friends”.
“Which friends?”
John stared that she did not know then and that he was headed upstairs to go to bed.

Lecture 13 – 11/21/2017 | 1337 - 1505

Experiences –
Qualities –

Personal anecdotes
Best way to be effective is to be selective

IAA
Interests –
Abilities –
Achievements –

How we present our achievements and accomplishments is the thing that will matter most.
Strike a balance between individual accomplishments and collaborative efforts.
Alternate the use of personel pronouns, proved a mix of “I” and “we” statements & descriptions.
Presenting your faulte or failures as part of a larger process of self-development.
1. By the time I had crossed the line, I had been up, and moving for over 31 hours (31:29:56 to be precise). Sometimes running while other time walking, eating or talking the equally lutiques person I had met on the trail between aid stations. I will admit there was even some crying and a whole lot of praying. But never was there ever the thought of quiting, giving up, or not finishing. For six months I had planned, trained, ached and scrofised. I had leaned on family, friends and especially my running parter and four legged angle Mizz Violet for support and incouragement – even tho most words of incouragement circled around my lack of mental scrupals. All the miles in the moutians, hours on my legs and mind-numbing ice baths had allowed me to compartimalize my mind to the point that I would have died before quiting. All this cam to a _________ point when I accomplished my goal and completed my first 100 mile endurance run. (REWITE FOLLOWING EXERCISE #2)

Lecture 14 – 11/21/2017 | 1524 - 1653

Link between autobiographical writing and leadership
Reciprocity is a crucial function of leadership
Emotional expression (judicious)

Soft power – the ability to achieve one’s goals by establishing intimacy and cultivating personal connections with a large public body.

Present yourself as a leader who establishes productive reciprocal relationships with those around you and never allow an individual accomplishment to be represented without some connection to those with whom you serve.
Low-key pitch and understated tones will draw your readers closer, inviting them to listen longer and hear more of what you have to say.
In 1998 I made, what will always be, the greatest mistake of my life. I was given a piece of paper with the date of November 5th 1998 on it. With the sheet of paper came the responsibility of parenthood, and what I then believed was a responcibility I could not handle, but hounostly was unwilling to try. That day I made a choice to chose my life over my childs, and even tho God had the final say and took my child back the day before we where scheduled to send her back. Till the day I die, on the 5th of November I will always be reminded of my greatest misstate, because the 5th of November is my birthday too.

Lecture 15 – 11/21/2017 | 1653 - 1754

Rhetorical concepts
Commonplace – a piece of truth that is wrapped up in easily recogvizable language
Truth = positive response [right to the pursuit of happiness]

Stasis – general agreement on terms of the argument
Deductive reasoning – generalizations to particulars (specific event, occurrence, or phenomenon)
Inductive reasoning – particulars to generalizations (used with wide range of evidence)

We reviewed your companies analytics data for the last year and noticed the top three sites sending you visits where google, bing, and facebook. With closer view facebook was removed from consideration due to low convertion rates, while google and bring where given a closer look. It is with this closer look that we believe bing will provider a lower CPA and recommend increase its budget by 15% for the next 6 months while learing googles alone and decreasing facebooks by 50%

Lecture 16 – 11/21/2017 | 1826 - 1937

Invention – the process by which we generate arguments or topics (think outside the box)
Arrangement – refers to the way arguments are organized – it’s the formula and expectation that dictate writing structure (five paragraph essay)
Kairos – refers to the opportunities that a particular set of circumstances might present you (writing or saying the right thing at the right time the right way)
Analogy – drawing connection between two things that may not necessarily be associated with each other by a particular audience
Virtual permission form – pick an aspect of your topic that seems most interesting or challenging and develop that is as much dept as possible.

Lecture 17 – 11/21/2017 | 1938 - 2038

Ethos – the perception that readers have of your reliability or character – established though patterns of behavior – when writing demonstrate expertise and/or speak from a position of authority (transfer of trust)
Pathos – inspiring emotion in your readers, especially feelings of sympathy

1. Last year we collected 500 liters of blood!
That’s 2000 lives saved or helped.
This year we need 600 liters.
Your donation of 1 liter can save 2 people
Come out on December 25 to help save kids like Little Jimmy. Last year little Jimmy was hit by a drunk drive and required 6 liter of life saving blood! That blood cam from 6 of our loving neirbors who cared enough to donate last year.

Lecture 18 – 11/22/2017 | 0808 - 0916

Research Plan
1. Identify you objective (prove position, support belief, educate audience, or entertain)
2. Narrow your focus
Broad – the figure of king Aurther in literature
Less Broad – The figure of King Aurther in Midevil literature
Perfect – The significants of the shift in King Aurthers characture, once he has founded the order of the round table.
3. Find your hood, the way into your research
4. Schedule with deadlines. 1st week read 2nd write or Monday 4hr read 1hr draft ideas
Now where to look (Internet, or Library)
Take a moment to stop and look at what books are around the one you need.
5. Spend time persuing the notes and work cited section of your articles and books
Due Exercises 1 -3 on “A Modest Proposal“

Lecture 19 – 11/22/2017 | 0920 - 1025

Start early – know what your talking about – have an understanding of other points of niew – articulate your own position – make a convincing case

Information Storing
1st run – tabs
2nd run – more detailed notes (sum up general argument – interesting points indivisually – identify page – write down personal questions or countergruments as the come

Note cards (color coded) one quote or argument – ive point per card – author -which text – which page

Information Organization
Make your voice heard – give proper accreditation – decide what your particular stance on a topic, and then try to articulate your position – rough outline – supporting points – secondary source – identify critics

Plagiarism – using words or ideas of others without giving proper credit.

Citation style
MLA
APA
Chicago

Do Exercise #2

Lecture 20 – 11/22/2017 | 1047 - 1125

Act of getting started
Free writing | brainstorming – make a list

Feeling blocked – give yourself permission to write poorly

Fresh eyes

Writing partner or writing support group
Exercise – read “a rose for Emily”

Lecture 21 – 11/22/2017 | 1112 - 1308

Two basic models
Line-by-line – edit one line at a time, making corrections as you go

Holistic – step back and take a macroscopic view
1. state in a sentence what the main argument of the essay is.
2. write an outline of the essay as it stands
3. revise the outline
4. finish up with the detail (spelling | grammar)

1. One fight defined Beowulf’s identity
2. A. Great old English poem – Hero named Beowulf – fights 3 monsters – one degines his identity
B. Monster #1 Grendel #2 Grendel’s mom #3 dragon (50 years latter) debate in his death in last battle
C. Societal importance of identity and reputation – mutipule example og narstist personalit
D. 1st fight (Grendel) most important – establish reputation
3. B no C kind of D yes
4. Review with Aleta

Lecture 22 – 11/22/2017 | 1345 - 1417

Make sure you are working with a clearly articulated main claim
State a main claim that is clear and specific as possible

Never assume your audience understands the point your trying to make – spell things out – signpost

Exercise – due with Aleta

Lecture 23 – 11/22/2017 | 1418 - 1513

Fresh eyes
Read your piece out loud

10 common errors
1. “I” vs. “me”
2. Subject – pronoun agreement
3. Gender – exclusinve language
4. Apostrophes
5. Comma
6. Dangling modigiers
7. Ironically
8. Misspelled words
9. Sound a like words
10. “there” and “yours”

1. Their dog is tired, he’s been playing in the backyard all day.
To whom did she give the present?
She brought plenty of food for us to eat: salads, muffins, and hamburger.
It’s hard when someone breaks their promise.
You’r not being very nice to him.

Lecture 24 – 11/22/2017 | 1520 - 1620

Read and write as much as you can

The world around us is filled with words; take in as many as you can, and then give us some back.

1. I have spent all but 8 years of my 40 years in this world in the Federal Way way area. I am a third generation resident and am belest enough to watch a gourth generation grow up. I have voluntired in the community with churches schools, campaigns, at the hospital and with community groups. In this time. I will argue, I have watched this city fall from a family friendly bedroom community to a mini Seattle with shopping carts at every bus stop, homeless encampments in the woods, and vagents at ever corner.

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Music

Mastering the classics while worshipping the Master Composer.
Violet
soul animal

Song

A song consists of three elements – speech, harmony, and rhythm.

  1. Speech (4 voices)
  2. Harmony
  3. Rhythm (3 metrical feet)

Vices

  • illiberality
  • arrogance
  • madness
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Sonus – Sound

Pitch – particular frequency 432Hz/440Hz
Subjective:

Tone – Acoustic – regularity of vibration

Standard 12-tone scale

Frequency – of musical notes (rate of oscillatory & vibratory phenomena)
Objective:
frequency is a number of occurrences, of a repeated event, per unit of time

Hertz is a International Standard (SI) unit for frequency

Verdi's A

Others believe that the correct middle “A” is 432 Hz (also known as Verdi’s A) because it has “a pure tone of math fundamental to nature” and is “mathematically consistent with the patterns of the universe, vibrating with Phi, the Golden Ratio.

Furthermore, 432 Hz resonates with 8 Hz (the Schumann Resonance), the documented fundamental electromagnetic “beat” of Earth.

The great 440 Hz conspiracy, and why all of our music is wrong: Alan Cross

Grounding

dr william amalu grounding vagal tone – Vagal tone refers to activity of the vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve and a fundamental component of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. This branch of the nervous system is not under conscious control and is largely responsible for the regulation of several body compartments at rest. electrical ground improves vagal tone Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants
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Borderline Personality Disorder – BPD

BPD is a Pervasive Disorder of the Emotion Regulation System
[biological regulations disorder / invalidating social environment]

BPD criterion behaviors function to regulate emotions or are a natural consequence of emotion dysregulation.

“Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Where We Were, Where We Are and Where Are We Going” YouTube, uploaded by UW Video, 20 April 2016, https://youtu.be/hM_Pj_MvpcM

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy – DBT

The following is a dyslexic understanding of the DBT Deck. The DBT Deck was created by Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, DBTC in 2019 and is based on 3 seminal BPD research pages, (Linehan, 1993, Pederson, 2012, & Moonshie, 2008). If you are interested in purchasing your own DBT Desk, go here.

don't judge yourself

5 Areas of DBT

  • Dialectics
  • Mindfulness
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness

Practice

  1. diary card
  2. schedule skill use
  3. reward yourself
  4. discover your motivation
  5. “crowd out” problem behaviors
  6. stick with it!

What are Dialectics?

dialectics relate to the synthesis of opposites.

shads of gray
flexible in thinking

conflict = perspective
procrastination = small steps

Practice: List 5 positive qualities i like or have

  1. compassionate
  2. determined | resolute
  3. loyal | faithful
  4. humble
  5. just | fair

What is Mindfulness?

mindfulness is choosing to be aware of this moment, on purpose, non-judgmentally. States of mind
  • Emotion
  • Reason
  • Wise
Wise Mind is the balance between emotion and reason Step One: observe > describe Step Two: participate > effectively Practice: 3 mindful tasks clean for 10 minutes let go of Judgments do not get frustrated w/distractions

What is Distress Tolerance?

skills to manage stress and crisis in ways that help without having after effects that make our lives worse

2 types of coping behaviors

  • Ineffective (outbrust)
  • Healthy (energy burn – running / AJJ)

ACCEPTS (skills)
 Activities – Mind off problems
 Contributing – Focus on others
 Comparisons – Healthy view
 Emotions – Change behavior new emotions
 Pushing Away – Tomorrows problem
 Thoughts – Focus on helpful one
 Sensations – Earthly pleasures (all 5 senses)

 

IMPROVE (skills)
 Imagery – Imagine running w/Violet @ Tiger Mountain (happy thoughts)
 Meaning – whys motivate actions
 Prayer – a ritual that calms (spirituality)
 Relaxation – Mindfulness (breathing)
 One Thing/Moment @ a Time – multitasking in half-assing a bunch of thing all at once.
 Vacation – Road trip Federal Way – Seattle – Puyallup – Yakima – Montana
 Encouragement – affirming self-talk (morning vibrations)

 

Practice: Self-Soothe

  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Taste
  • Touch

Emotion Regulation

skills to decrease vulnerabilities to intense emotions

PLEASED
 Physical health
 List of resources & strengths
 Eat healthy
 Avoid drugs & alcohol
 Sleep enough
 Exercise daily
 Daily practice

Practice: Opposite to Emotion (O2E)

  • Depression > connect w/your supports
  • Anxiety > one big step
  • Anger > avoid till calm
  • Guilt > commit to not making the mistake again
  • Shame > come out of hiding
  • Procrastination > take 1st step (list)

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Goals:
Increased sense of self-respect
Increased ability to make and keep relationship
Increased wants & needs being meet

1.FAST
 Fair
 Apologies
 Stick to Values
 Truthful

2.GIVE
 Genuine
 Interest
 Validation
 Easy Manner

3.DEAR MAN
 Describe the Details
 Express Opinions & Emotions
 Assert
 Reward
 Mindful
 Appear Confident
 Negotiate