Spirit
• Our soul awaits our undivided love and attention every day and it longs to express itself through us. - Inspired by Alexandra Stoddard
• The spirit always feels good. It always feels high. It always feels open and light. Because of this, you naturally begin to center more and more on the spiritual part of your being.
• Stay connected with your heart center throughout the day (like a continuous inner communion with your soul). – Paraphrasing Jonathan Parker
• Sense your soul’s invitation to merge with it and have a loving relationship with it. – Paraphrasing Jonathan Parker
• When you feel deep love, you’re feeling your soul. When you imagine your soul wrapping its arms around you and embracing you with the most comforting, warm, loving hug, you
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• Spirit feels SOOOO Good! – My words
• Feel Spirit’s warm, loving, presence – My words
• Feel the cleansing of the Spirit as it washes away all of your illusions and replaces them with love. – My words
• I am caught firmly in the embrace of Spirit and there is no place I would rather be. – My words
• Heavenly Spirit enfolds me and fills me with love – My words
• The more you focus on your spirit, the more you feel it’s warm loving glow throughout the day – My words
• Dwell always in the spirit. Come down a little bit when you have to, to eat, or talk, or to do your work; then withdraw into the spirit again. – Inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda
• Lift your Spirit into the light of awareness, where it may shine even more brightly. – My words
• The Spirit, like the sun, brightens everything on which it shines – My words
• In the presence of Spirit, there is only Light and Love. – My words
• Let you entire being shimmer with Spirit’s love. - Paraphrase Swami Chidvilasanda
• I am one with the Beloved - My words
• I feel Spirit’s Loving Presence. - My words Wow
• Spirit’s love encircles me and flows softly through me. – My
What truly identifies the “spirit” of an individual? Is it the way someone acts, their heart, their mind, or a more divine related explanation? Whither Thou Goest, by Richard Selzer, is a story about a woman named Hannah whose husband is killed and she decides to donate his organs. At the beginning of the story she believes that there is no issue with donating her husband’s organs because she is convinced that his body has no sentimental link to who he was. However, as the story goes on, she begins to rethink this and believes that the only way to move on with her life is to hear her husband’s heartbeat.
Abstract This paper examines two theoretical perspectives, the humanistic perspective and the systems theory. Later, these perspectives/theories are applied to conduct a micro and macro level analysis of Lia’s life and her parents’ Foua and Nao Kao’s relationship/cultural belief to the Western healthcare system in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Furthermore, the implications of various empirical research are incorporated and used to guide potential methods that could be applied to relevant stories of the book. Moreover, the studies discussed different social issues and elements of cultural competence in the Western Healthcare system.
I finish reading chapter 8 to chapter 13 in Spirit Catches you, and I am so impressed by this section. Because there is much irony in these chapters, additionally the tension of the story reaches its climax in chapter 11 to 12. At the beginning of this section, the author Fadiman puts herself into the whole story. The introduction of her communication experience with Hmong people leads to culture shock.
The first appearance of the spirit provides its origin saying, “I am a spirit. I once was very happy, but I have been disturbed and made unhappy.
In 1805, Benjamin Rush, a physician from Philadelphia, wrote an essay titled "The Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon Man". Rush's writing reflected the changing attitudes towards distilled alcohol at the time, especially among the US medical community. Rush's article drew upon ideas from a century earlier; at the beginning of the eighteenth century, medical practitioners began taking a more scientific approach to medicine. Scientists and doctors like Rush felt that the American public needed to be made aware of the health hazards inherent in alcohol consumption. Rush's argument against the consumption of ardent spirits was not only scientific, but also moral.
“I imagine what they would sound like if I could somehow splice [the tapes] together, so the voices of the Hmong and the voices of the American doctors could be heard on a single tape, speaking a common language” (Fadiman, ix). I was in awe at how quickly, in the last line of the preface, Anne Fadiman perfectly encapsulates all that is wrong with American medicine and the lack of cross-cultural knowledge healthcare professionals possess. She went on to write an eye-opening novel beautifully depicting the disarray that is the American healthcare system through the lens of the Lee’s, a Hmong family who struggled to care for their suffering daughter with epilepsy. I made a pact to myself to fully place myself in the position of the Lee’s as I was reading the novel. I tried to imagine what it would be like to have such a debilitating disease such as epilepsy and going to a doctor who not only didn’t understand my culture of beliefs, but refused to acknowledge or accept them.
Spirit Week in Ronald Reagan High School is typically a great time to have some unique fun with friends, while also being a time to pridefully represent yourself as an amusing member of the student body. Since freshman year I have thoroughly enjoyed the idea of a Spirit Week, but I also appreciated the idea that the students of Reagan get to contribute to the Spirit Week days almost directly. Traditionally, Student Council and the members within it are the ones who think of the clever Spirit Week plans, and ordinarily the execution is fantastic. Yet this year there has been a serious rise in tension considering the student body's views on one of the Spirit Week Days.
In her book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman describes the story of the Lee family and their settlement process in the United Sates. When Laos fell to the communists, the Lees were among the thousands of Hmong who fled the country. They arrived in the U.S. with their seven children and settled in the town Merced. The Lees like many refugees received many forms of federally funded public benefits including food stamps, housing, clothing, employment services, medical care, and other necessary services. The Lees took advantage of these benefits because they were in need for medical aid for their youngest daughter, Lia Lee.
Overcoming Language Barriers and Seeing Perspective The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is a novel based on the real-life story of the Lee’s, a Hmong family who move to Merced, California after escaping from their home country of Laos following World War II. When the Lee’s arrive to Merced, they speak no English and are expected to adapt to Western culture. For them, it was complete culture shock.
The Human Spirit What is the human spirit? People have different definitions and opinions of the “Human Spirit.” Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, describes how the human spirit is associated with the fundamental knowledge of intellect, reality, morals, and understanding. . “My hands… My spirit… My sky… My forest..
What is the human spirit, and why is it so important? The human spirit is a person’s ego, mentally and emotionally. Everyone has his or her own personal human spirit. It is the perseverance everyone needs to keep going when the heart tells him or her to stop. Christians state that the human spirit is the “real you”, or the center of a person, the main meaning of their existence.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall is a novel based on the clash of two cultures---the Hmong culture and the American culture. A little Hmong girl is diagnosed with epilepsy which her parents believe is caused by spirits. Because of this belief, they try to cure her illness not with western medication but their own Hmong ways. There is a huge misunderstanding between the parents and the doctors that Anne Fadiman explores. Anne Fadiman provides readers with a vivid, detailed history of the Hmong in Laos to their involvement in the Vietnam War to their struggles in America that explains this clash.
The 1997 science fiction film ‘Gattaca,’ directed by Andrew Niccol delves into the concept that the human spirit will prevail despite an uncaring fate. Protagonist Vincent Freeman represents powerful notions of perseverance and humanity, and through his victory epitomizes humanity’s triumph over science. Niccol implies that all children deemed Valid do not possess the trait of the human spirit and consequently have no true dreams nor aspirations. Niccol infers that when one knows their predetermined fate, they will not strive to accomplish anything further. When a Valid does not accomplish their predetermined fate they struggle under the burden of perfection.
Abdu H Murray wrote a book on the Grand Central Question, which is answering critical concerns on major worldviews. Every religion and worldview seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence. Murray digs deeper into three major worldviews and compares them to the central message of Christianity. The three representative are as followed: Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings, Pantheism emphasizes: How do we escape suffering, and Islam 's main concern is: How is God great? Chapters 2-4 talk about the first representative, secular humanism.
The three basic powers of consciousness, as we see, are: power (will), love and thought. We all have these forms of energy in different proportions. When they are manifested in a human being, these forms of energy are also altered by the orientation of our personal consciousness (inwards or outwards). People with inward-oriented consciousness are introverted: they tend to be concerned with what happens