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I'm passionate about

Dancing and singing and music as joyful activities, educating, the beauty of life, urban vegetable and fruit tree gardens, spreading laughter as a way to relieve tension and find inner peace.

An idea worth spreading

1. Laughter yoga as developed by Mandan Kataria of India show that laughter can come from action and intention and does not rely on feelings or thoughts.

2. The hand and the brain have been in a developmental embrace of dance, so that they have grown and improved together to increase intelligence in humans. Doing has pushed thinking; thinking results in doing.

3. What has been proven to work in education and shown to fail.

Talk to me about

How to talk to people with set beliefs so that they may reevaluate those beliefs. Some of my friends believe in fantastic things like healing through moving hands over parts of the body. Help!

People don't know that I'm good at

Writing. Just published a book, Enhanced, Plated, Irradiated and Lab Created: What Jewelry Vendors Don't Want You to Know. It's available as a download on PayLoadz.com. Searchable by title.

My TED Story

A Facebook friend posted a Ted talk. I have been eager for such information and ideas.

Comments

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• A comment on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Mar 20 2012: This talk combined too many ideas and did not connect them well. As others have said, the individuals in a crowd can have self-interest as a primary motivation, just as much as loosing of self. I've had the transcendental experience, in a dream once, after reading science fiction. It was a feeling and vision of being united with all beings and creation, an experience, not of losing the self, but of a joining and returning to a state of pure goodness, love, and joy. No drugs involved. Such experiences are fleeting, only for some can they change an entire life and result in more social cooperation. My choices to be politically active and work for social change were based more on seeking meaning for and improvement of my individual life and need to do good work than an result of a losing of self. Haidt's topic is not well expressed in this talk, but if all could be explained in 20 miin., he would not have written a book. The talk makes me curious to learn more and organize my own thinking. For that it was a success.

• A reply on Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

  Feb 6 2012: Just did test. 17 of 20 correct. I reversed the last 2 men and got the older man wrong.

• A reply on Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

  Feb 6 2012: You have to define "fake". If you put a real smile on you face regardless of how you are feeling, the positive emotion and effects follow. If you smirk ( what I consider a fake smile), no, the emotions and effects are different. Now I'm just typing, paying attention to what I'm doing, not happy or sad. I smile; I feel positive effects. This is the great discovery of Dr. and Mrs. Kataria of India, that we can act our way to the benefits of laughter. We don't have to feel good first. See 'Laughter Yoga".

• A comment on Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

  Feb 6 2012: Ron, you need to know about Laughter Yoga, lots of overlap. I have a 3 1/2 year old friend; I'm like an extra grandmother for her. She wakes laughing and brings me lots of joy. One day we went outside and she said, What a beautiful day!" Smiles all around. Dancing makes me smile, too, so much that my facial muscles hurt. I'm so lucky to have so much happiness in life.
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  A comment on Talk: Tim Jackson: An economic reality check

  Oct 5 2010: I, too, would have liked more than just the usual about what I could do, but we all must understand that TED talks are limited in length. Jackson's web site and blog do not offer such information up front either. Mr Jackson should respond to this plea by his listeners for "what can I do now." In California we have a group that accepts contributions of land and money to buy land, especially endanger coastal lands, to preserve them undeveloped for the future. Perhaps web links to all the worlds groups working toward carbon reduction, etc. would be a step. If it already exists, and you all out there know, please respond.
  The problem of personal ability to allocate time and energy to this cause needs addressing, too. Less time shopping! Yes, but seriously, people are struggling. I'd like to see useful ideas on reducing the time it takes to maintain home, family and self .