Why do you know so much and live it so little?

Many people know things philosophically, theoretically, but they don’t live them.
They somehow separate themselves from their knowingness. They live in a kind of reserve.
In an area of their mind they know but they never live their knowingness, because living is somehow separate from this knowingness. And you will hear people say, “Inside of me I know better. I know what the truth is but I don’t live it.”
Why?
Is there some element to you that says… that truth already is truth if it is realized… and does not it beg us to live by our own realization?
What an interesting concept.
Why do you know so much and live it so little?

Is then the action part of your life what is meaningful?

You have got this great knowingness that you kind of worship… but will it ever become?

It is Just a Ride...Do not be afraid to do anything you believe is right...

I have made available both of my two previous blogs, which were shut down for two different reasons. You can find them on the bottom of my blog list on the right hand side.

Enjoy!








Notes: Picture Peaceful Warrior

The clip of the Peaceful Warrior Bridge Slow Motion scene was first posted on my first sourcesense blog on 6th October 2008. The 6th October is the day when Dr Maria Hari my mentor and the successor of Dr. Andras Peto passed away in 2001.
http://sourcesense0.blogspot.com/2008/10/peaceful-warrior-bridge-slow-motion.html





The clip above I posted on 6th October 2009.

http://juditszathmary.blogspot.com/2009/10/pilgrim-how-you-journey-on-road-you.html

References:
http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/10/maria-hari.html

http://sourcesense.blogspot.com/

http://sourcesense0.blogspot.com/

Does it make sense to you? ♥

"My heart is full of many things...there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all" Ludwig van Beethoven

After a long day at work, I drove home. It was a two and a half-hour long journey.

By the time I unloaded the car from all the equipments and by the time I was searching for the keys to my house in my courtyard it was dark.

The ice-cold breeze of the autumn night lingered over me without hesitation. I sniffed into the cold air and it was mixed with the smell of fire-smoke from the chimneys.

My grandmother’s home made jams and preserves came to my mind.
On the first coldest autumn days we were allowed to open the first ones while she was making us delicious potato pancakes.

I stepped through the door and sat down in the study. I looked around and I was pleased with the newly cleared shelves.
Recently I donated a huge amount of books to charities. I collected so many books throughout the years.
When I decided to clear out all the clutter around me it meant my precious books had to be gone too. I love books, but I felt they have served their purpose in my life, so I wanted to let someone else benefit from them from now.
It is quite liberating when you let go off things so you give life a chance to bring in something new.
I moved around the house and sat in all the newly decorated and cleared rooms. My appreciation grew bigger and bigger.

There were so many things which disturbed me during the day… things, which I know you might also have to deal with while working with Conductive Education in different settings serving all kinds of different purposes.
It has nothing to do with what you were taught and nothing to do with what you should be dealing with.
But for now let me tell you what I did. I sat down at my piano and after such a long time I started playing Beethoven Fur Elise.
This is the closest version I could find to the gentle way I beleive it should be played.

Educação Condutiva - com amor, Conductive Education - with love

I love reading Leticia Burigo’s postings. I always felt drawn to her and to her thoughts pouring from the heart.
I have been thinking about a new posting for a few days now. I was searching for words… how to explain what I always believed and never dared to say openly. She just said it. Thank you Leticia.
Here is her last posting translated by Google.

“Be better than I am

The children teach us to be better people.
teach us to love.
teach us patience.
teach us to set routines even more organized.
teach us to take more responsibility.
They teach us to predict before it happened.
must be more, go further.
must guess a movement, a response.
predict and is now ready. always have a second option.
To be better than I am,
respecting the diversity of each one.
Be better for me, for you, for all.
To able to read what they are telling us.”

Leticia said it in such a beautiful way…

I have been working and interacting with children and watching them nearly every day for a long a long time. It has been a longer time than my own growing up years.
I can still remember myself as a child growing up and I have seen my own daughter growing up. I have been witnessing these children’s power and their clarity. It taught me how to feel, hear and see what the children are trying to tell me.

Their power and clarity might not appear to be as we expect them to be, but my definite conclusion is, that they are bringing us up in so many ways. By reminding us of what is important and what really matters.

They all have a message, which they are so eager to share. Every time I meet them I always have an enquiring heart asking them internally… so what do you want to teach me, what do you want me to hear?

My job is to facilitate them in their journey in this life, but nether the less I need to hear them out first and learn from them, before I use my knowledge and experience to pave the path with them towards becoming what they wish to be and expected to be.
I adjust my gaze to see them with unconditional love, which accepts them as they are. I don’t want them to be different. They don’t need to be different to make me feel better, nor they have to be different to feel my acceptance. This is not the case and never will be.

I know this concept might be a little bit hard to understand.

What I am trying to convey here is, that we can only facilitate the changes and the transformations of people’s life if we can accept them as they are.
When we see them who they really are and engage with them in true sharing, which is giving and receiving.

It is the same with adults. Isn’t it?

I still feel that we have more to learn from our children than they have to learn from us. LIFE is clever. It always makes sure that the seeds of growth are coming through plenty if we dare to see them and find them.
The children are the carriers of these seeds.

Reference: http://educacaocondutiva.blogspot.com/

Amanda Elliott’s Challenge Me! Speech and Communication Cards has been short listed for a Nasen Award 2009

in the 'Inclusive Resource for Primary Classrooms' category.

Amanda Elliott is one of the first graduates of the National Institute of Conductive Education UK.

The Nasen awards 2009 ceremony is going to be held at Hotel Russell in London, at Russell Square tomorrow evening.

Winners will be announced on Friday 16th October 2009.

'Nasen provides up to date information on SEN and Disability issues. By working closely with government agencies, other organisations and providers of products and resources...' http://www.nasen.org.uk/general-information/

"Nasen's Mission statement

Principles
Nasen believes that:

• Every human being has an entitlement to personal, social and intellectual development and must be given the opportunity to achieve his/her potential in learning.
  



• Every human being is unique in terms of characteristics, interests, abilities, motivation and learning needs.
  



• Those with exceptional learning needs and/or disabilities should have access to high quality and appropriate education.
  

Aims
Nasen will:

• Promote the interests of those with exceptional learning needs and/or disabilities
  
• Provide a forum for those actively working with or caring for children and young people with special and additional educational needs and/or disabilities.
  
• Contribute to the formulation and development of policy and practice.
  
  

Objectives

The specific objectives of the Association are:

• To develop the Association’s structure to run efficiently and effectively
  



• To offer a comprehensive service and relevant products to all members
  



• To collaborate with organisations and associations concerned with education
  



• To promote the principles of effective inclusion
  



• To develop the Association’s profile within the global market
  



• To prepare for and respond to key government legislation and guidance
  



• To provide significant input into Government policy on all aspects of special and additional educational needs and disability
  



• To disseminate and commission research and policy development in areas of interest to members of the Association
  



• To research and develop world class solutions to support those working with or caring for children and young people with special and additional educational needs and disabilities "
  http://www.nasen.org.uk/mission-statement/

Photos: Hotel Russell London

References: http://www.challengemecards.com/

http://www.nasen.org.uk/

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843109464

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843104971

Are we at the edge of a new paradigm?

If we are, are we ready to see it, acknowledge it and work with it?

Do we need a Conductive Pedagogical Renaissance?

What is Renaissance?

“The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence affected literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

Are we ready for the rebirth of and the revival of Petö’s Conductive Pedagogy?
I first mentioned this in one of my advertised training courses on 16th May 2009 'Conductive Pedagogical Renaissance series’ on my sourcesense blog.

Petö was ahead of his time in many respects and he still is… He had a single focus and that was, to create a system, which shifted the already existing paradigm about disability, especially about motor impairment.

It happened at a time when everybody was in survival mode after the Second World War.
Petö had a great understanding about human beings and about the ‘system in general’, which was created for people in the new era after World War ll. They had to accept it as a norm.

He deeply understood and worked with the laws of creation and manifestation.
He was able to see the powers, that each human being possess, whether they are aware of it or not and whether they are labelled as disabled or not.

On my first lecture with Dr. Mária Hári, she told us that always ask permission from everyone, even from a baby when you want to facilitate them at the first ‘examination’, which we call initial consultation or observation in Conductive Education.
Conductors do not examine people. I only used the word to highlight the importance of the difference.

What does the first remark of her first lecture tell you? Think about it!

It told me, that when we start our work with anyone (not just at the initial consultation, but always), we must show and have the highest respect and regard for them.
How many people who are working with Petö’s Conductive Pedagogy in the world understood this deeply and apply it as a norm every day in their work?

How many of us realised that the removing of Gill Maguire from the National Library of Conductive Education put the heritage of the work outside of Hungary to a standstill?

How many of us are truly grateful (every time when we open her blog) of the fact that she is still providing us with essential information about Conductive Education and related issues?

How many of us would be prepared to be part of creating a more formal venture in our history for the preservation of Gill’s and Andrews’s knowledge and experience?

For sometime I have been thinking long and hard about these two people who invested their best in establishing something very unique and valuable.

If we don’t look after this still available pool of knowledge and experience what are we hoping to create for the future?

How can we, who are working with Petö’s Conductive Pedagogy expect that we will be looked after if we miss this opportunity?

In all sustainable, beautiful, native cultures where people understand about life and see it as a precious commodity, they respect and love their ‘elders’ the most experienced.

They don’t brush them aside and believe that they have no more use anymore.

I am proposing to set up a contribution project for our heritage and invite these two individuals, Gill and Andrew to help us as long as they can.
We can call it the Conductive Education Information Project.
The mission of the project is to be a focal point of reliable and accurate information about the system of Conductive Education.

The purpose of the project is to provide a vehicle and a source for researchers, the media, conductive education students, conductors, students of the rehabilitation and special needs professions, health care professionals, educationalists, parents, carers, projects, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis Societies etc., education authorities, health authorities and the government.

The Conductive Education Information Project endeavours to steer the worldwide conductive movement towards the highest quality and unified understanding of Petö’s Conducive Pedagogy.


Every project working with Conductive Education could budget for it within their means, (doesn’t matter how little it is), they can do individual fundraisings for donations towards it, and we all can approach and invite people to donate even if they are not part of Conductive Education. Just a little awareness and some good intention could create something remarkable for our future.

I believe that this is important for all of us.

If you beleive that it is important to you to take this further, please comment or contact me at judit.szathmary@virgin.net.

References:

http://www.conductive-world.info/ http://www.conductiveeducationinformation.org/

"You have to find the inside of the Now"...

A friend of mine… a very special friend of mine sent me this book as a present, which arrived yesterday.
When I opened the package I didn’t understand it at first…I sat down and started reading it…and it all became clear.
Whether you are an adult or a child you might like to read it yourself.
The book is about Milton's adventures as he learns to stop projecting his past fears into the future - and live simply and happily in the moment.








You might like to read this too: http://www.conductive-world.info/2009/05/bullying-in-workplace.html

Do your research, choose wisely...

For the last few months the mainstream media has been bombarding the world with fear provoking information about the swine flu virus and the importance of the swine flu jab.
Less well-known regional papers in European countries have been expressing concerns about the lack of research evidence on how the vaccination could affect people and also have been reporting about the Jane Burgermeister case.

'Information is not knowledge.' A Einstein

'Pilgrim, how you journey on the road you chose, to find out why the winds die and where the stories go.'

All days come from one day

that much you must know,

you cannot change what's over

but only where you go.

One way leads to diamonds,

one way leads to gold,

another leads you only

to everything you're told.

In your heart you wonder

which of these is true;

the road that leads to nowhere,

the road that leads to you.

Will you find the answer

in all you say and do?

Will you find the answer

In you?

Each heart is a pilgrim,

each one wants to know

the reason why the winds die

and where the stories go.

Pilgrim, in your journey

you may travel far,

for pilgrim it's a long way

to find out who you are...

Pilgrim, it's a long way

to find out who you are...'

Enya Pilgrim

Thank you everyone for the kind Birthday wishes.

I had a wonderful time, which happens when, synchronicity brings people and events together.

Four new people entered my life on this day and they showered me with with presents and shared their kindness, their thoughts and their experiences with me over a delightful lunch.

I am used to magical events in my life, but in the past, I never found it easy to share a meal with people I met for the first time. Sitting around the table and enjoying culinary delights is a very personal experience for me and it is the most enjoyable when I am with people who I feel relaxed and at ease with. After a very short time I forgot my reservations and I was absorbed by the energy of the place and by the energy of the people around the table and by our conversations. It was almost as fabulous to see how we opened up one by one and shared our energies, as the actual synchronistic event itself.
I will always remember and be grateful for this birthday! ♥

The Mill at Gordleton where we had lunch.

http://www.themillatgordleton.co.uk/index.htm






Link to the article about Crispie the duck who was waddling around the restaurant to everyones delight!

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/search/4445635.Diners_go_quackers_for_Crispie_the_duck/