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Even keel or waves aplenty

Submitted by Deborah Hazen on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 5:02am.

Jill mentioned a phrase that we have all heard growing up, "don't make waves."

We seem to be asking a lot of our central nervous systems. First, we expect them to react with a fight or flight model when under stress (we do want to live to see another day). We and our students experience the perception of stress when in conflict--behind any of the three doors that Paul describes.

Paul asks us to find the conflict useful---but we are still left with a whole lot of what Joyce has been calling "visceral reaction."

Maybe, you've hit on an important bridge Jack. Maybe there would be benefit in teaching mindful meditation practice alongside, "can we find the conflict useful."

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