Basically my idea is that we should take care of ourselves first and sometimes a big part of that is also taking care of others. If we try to work in everyone’s best interest, it should have the effect of helping us: now and in the long run, in our conscience, in reciprocity and in karma, which tends to exist, in my opinion, more often than not.

We take care of our day
In so many ways
To stay alive
To feel well
Find ways to thrive
To just gel
To pass our time
To get our thrills
To help others
To help ourselves

Everyone does something
Starts with what we bring
To make a change
To feel good
To use our brains
Like we should
To keep the pace
Tears, sweat and blood
To save others
Just like they would…

Save us
Help them
We save much
by grinding through the system
It is what we make it
We might have to fake it
Recognize
a fair quality of life
Then try to achieve it
Every time

We take care of our day
In so many ways
To stay alive
To feel well
Find ways to thrive
To just gel
To pass our time
To get our thrills
To help others
To help ourselves

A very vivid image
A bold and believable story
Can not be ignored
We shoud not be sorry
I can not look away
And forget completely
Any more here
The memory is forever stored
*
A picture that is captured
Tells of an achievable glory
Washed up on our shore
To our bright rock quarry
We find a shiny day
And adore it completely
So much more here
The gravity is forever floored
*
Speeding up the rise
From the ground to the skies
We take the chance
To make advances
The mountains move
The sun enhances
Our vision
dances in our eyes
Blue infinity
A spectrum flows
Gardens grow
Lavish green
Life in this scene
*
Many colours glow
In everything we know
Shapes and lines
Define space and time
Always on the go
The sounds
The feeling
The vision always shows
*
An intense experience
Is always conceivable for me
We create the lore
Consciousness is pouring
Sometimes the skies are grey
Rain implores us completely
“Pure” means more here
Reality is forever yours

Everything that we say
Can be taken one way
or if there is another angle
The meaning can sometimes get tangled
and leave us hanging
Until we can manage to break through
Handle simple misunderstanding
And be more careful with our next words
*
Everything that we do
In some way is approved
That’s how it gets done in the first place
The intention is something we face
Slowly or racing
With every new setting event
Chase the
simple moments that grace wins
And always take care with our next moves
*
Words that move us
And actions that keep us talking
Life improves fast
The truth can still be shocking
When we do what is best
Do better than guess
Say what we need to say
Do what we need to do
To find a better way
To get a better view
*
Everything that we know
Is part of the big show
there will always be another stage
We live best when we’re on the same page
and feeling patient
So that we can learn and understand
Embrace simple thoughts that engage us
And be so careful with what we think

We are always unpredictable
We like to think we are invincible
It seems kind of reasonable
when I am feeling this way
protected by the day
This much I have to say
Until we get down again
Soon to rise
It seems inexplicable
They clearly thought we were incapable
We think we are intellectual
Somehow we made it okay
Invested in the day
it is the only way
Watch us get right up again
Everything here is incredible
This time completely unforgettable
Then we realize what we need the most
Current success
And a bright sky that glows
Reasons to care and the future that flows

Everything that we know
Builds up our reaction
It comes down to the second
Shows up in the instant

All of our experience
And what we are doing
Appears in the moment
It arrives in who we are

We often walk into
thoughts that we are thinking
If we think that we know it
It can take us very far

We may know right from wrong
We are always talking
There is no right or wrong
This perspective is shocking

We have free will
and create our own reaction
But there is always an antecedent
and we have our constant factors

Our placement in the universe
When we start to think
Determines everything
But we still have to think

And recognize fair effort
It is all that should exist
Working for shared benefit
No effort should be missed

Contributions to
constellations

Synergy builds us up
When we also take action
It comes down to connection
And each individual star

I realize that this is mainly a picture of the moon, but I don’t have a picture of the constellations and …. there at least a few stars here, if you look close?

Prose writing here today?

All of our experience is filtered through our senses and brain. I would also relate conciousness and experience to the “soul” or our personal identity, aside from other scientific assumptions.

Our understanding builds itself within our very individual (but still connected) mind and through processing reality, including our internal needs and processes, our social circle, our environment, the media that we are exposed to and society in general.

So you may have a totally different view than me, but we will have to assume that we do share many similar perspectives, as we share a similar environment and similar make-up.

By exerting effort to learn to understand and share perspectives in life, by considering mutually shared and potentially shared angles, we gain more power to improve our shared space.

Broccoli brain.

We achieve more
When we give support
We reach a goal
With what we have stored
*
In the future
There is another life
We build it all today
But we also
Live life to the best
Because it helps our good energy stay
*
We achieve more
When we find support
We get a goal
Together we score
*
In the moment
We have just one life
We live it our own way
But we also
Impact all the rest
So we hope that what is meant to be stays
*
Like wishes of riches
in justice and wellness
Accomplishments made
When we have all felt this
*
Delicious provisions
We must win unselfish
Astonishment plays
And we can all tell this
*
We achieve more
When we feel support
We set a goal
No one gets ignored

Life choices…

Aiming for wellness.

Just some ideas:
“Choosing” beliefs impacts our wellness and our understanding of the world. Boiling our beliefs down to truth can help us achieve in life. Patience and gratitude pay off.

Lots of choices
Many voices
We each decide what to believe
*
Truth is always
How we take it
Play it right and we will achieve
*
Develop a better understanding
After first impressions
That could be bang on
And improve our life
Or at least maintain it
We have to work it
To be feeling fine
*
Patience rejoices
Steady choices
When we decide what to believe
*
Choose our always
How we make it
If we take our time
We will achieve
*
Much more understanding
Or open expression
If we are thankful
It improves our life
With how we explain it
We have to work it
So we feel alright

What is next?
Pass the test
Another challenge
So complex
*
What is next?
Please no hex
Don’t need more chaos
So hard-pressed
*
To get through with no stress
is always best
*
What is next?
Just the best
We have good balance
We are blessed
*
What is next?
Heaven’s quest
To get more days off
God confessed
*
We only get through with enough rest
Plan each project
For the best
*
We often work through anything
And treasure whatever is left
Some projects may have no warning
Keeping our senses is always best
*
Top projects involve working
With crafts and tunes and rights
Projects can be all morning
some afternoons and nights
Projects can be a sure thing
More heavy duty
Or light
We use all of our balance
To help our sun and moon stay bright
*
What is next?
All the rest
For much more pay-off
Good moods protect

The poem reminds me of award-winning research that I helped with.

In 2016 our multi-University team published on “Effective self-management strategies” (in mental health).

Qualitative research.

Delphi consensus, a panel of experts, (doctors, nurses, counsellors, caregivers, people with lived experience, etc.) rate stategies across multiple surveys to develop consensus on effectiveness of strategies, (drawn from exhaustive literature review, interviews and multi-media research).

We determined the top strategies. We also did a thematic analysis. Many conclusions could be drawn.

Relative to this poem, and a relatively unique finding, to be statistically measured, is that one of the top strategies to achieve mental health is to maintain HOPE. Of course, maintaining physical health and other strategies are also key to mental health, but it was somewhat groundbreaking to statistically identify the value of hope.

Open the door
Never close it
We have the presence of mind
To stay more focussed
*
Sometimes it’s hard work
Just to show up
We have to get through the grind
So that they know us
*
Status quo
Seems so robust
Change is constant
The future grows up
*
Maintaining a vision can be a challenge
Developing a system
Helps us balance
If we put more thought
into our choices
We can improve perspectives
Share our voices
*
Answer the door
Please don’t close it
Just keep the presence of mind
Because we chose it
*
Sometimes ideas
Seem to blow up
But there are some that we find
That always show up
*
Steady flow
Never throws us
Stage that’s current
Each day is hopeful