http://momentscount.com The Moments Count Journal is a weekly Internet magazine bringing worldwide change through collaboration. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:54:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Moments Count is committed to the concept that every person has a purpose and a power to change the world. We work to create worldwide conversation. This diverse engagement energizes ideas and facilitates opportunities to take action to improve the world we all share. Visit us at http://MomentsCount.com/and tell us how you or someone you know is changing the world. The Moments Count Journal no The Moments Count Journal contactmc@momentscount.com contactmc@momentscount.com (The Moments Count Journal) Moments Count You Have Power and Purpose In Your World. moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, positive change, create change, inspire http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/MCLogo_Tag2.jpg http://momentscount.com/topics/science/mind http://momentscount.com/archives/10088 http://momentscount.com/archives/10088#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:00:55 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=10088
HYDERABAD, India — On a hot afternoon, a bright orange bus drives into a slum area of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, parking amidst shelters made of tarpaulins and bits of wood. Barefoot children come running, eyes shining, and troop inside. It’s a school on wheels that brings education to the doorstep of disadvantaged children [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/10088/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9985 http://momentscount.com/archives/9985#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:00:50 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=9985 http://momentscount.com/archives/9985/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/9773 http://momentscount.com/archives/9773#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:24 +0000 Lily Casura http://momentscount.com/?p=9773
It’s not often enough that we get to report some good news about suicide and the military — for months now, the numbers have been climbing in the wrong direction, with few notable exceptions to the trend. However, just recently, a development from a most unusual quarter shows some true promise for the future. And for those [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9773/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/9703 http://momentscount.com/archives/9703#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:58 +0000 Lauren Rosenfeld http://momentscount.com/?p=9703 http://momentscount.com/archives/9703/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9502 http://momentscount.com/archives/9502#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:00:52 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=9502
From ScienceDaily People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themselves. A study in the Oct. 11 issue of Nature Communications that caps more than [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9502/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9470 http://momentscount.com/archives/9470#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:00:19 +0000 Paula O Sullivan http://momentscount.com/?p=9470
I was standing in a shop looking out the window at the rain, the other day, when a man commented that it was awful when it was raining, as you couldn’t go out anywhere. I was going to ask him if that was so, then how the heck did he get here, like was he [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9470/feed 3 http://momentscount.com/archives/9238 http://momentscount.com/archives/9238#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:00:30 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=9238 http://momentscount.com/archives/9238/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9191 http://momentscount.com/archives/9191#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:00:54 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=9191
Here are a few photos from my hike up the Barr Trail to Barr Camp, which is 6.5 miles and 3,800 vertical feet, or a little better than half the way to Pike’s Peak summit. I just got back to the motor home about an hour ago. I’d had the night’s reservation for Barr Camp [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9191/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8295 http://momentscount.com/archives/8295#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:00:04 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=8295
I have come to a realization. Cynicism is a cinch! Perhaps you know some people who are true masters of cynicism. Let me help you identify them. They are pretty easy to recognize. They may say things like: “It won’t work!” “You can’t do it.” “No. It’s impossible.” “You’ll never do be able to.” “We [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8295/feed 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/7352 http://momentscount.com/archives/7352#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:02 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=7352
We all have to pull our thoughts together sometimes. We have to wander in our heads to find the correct road to the destination within us where our answers are awaiting. I have discovered a short cut. I can’t say my short cut will work for you. I don’t know the inner journeys you take [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7352/feed 13 http://momentscount.com/archives/7036 http://momentscount.com/archives/7036#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:01:18 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=7036
by GEOFF MARTZ and LAUREN PUTRINO The first time Lisa O’Brien knew something bizarre was happening was when she found her 4-year-old daughter Jacie having a conversation in an empty room. “I’d say, ‘Jacie, who are you talking to?’ ‘My dad! Talking to daddy,’” O’Brien recalled. “She would tell me she could see him.” Jacie’s father [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7036/feed 22 http://momentscount.com/archives/6783 http://momentscount.com/archives/6783#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:05:26 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=6783
By Professor Simon Baron-Cohen for The Guardian When I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. Just one of those comments you hear once and the thought never goes away. To a child’s mind – even to an adult’s – these two types of thing just don’t [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6783/feed 16 http://momentscount.com/archives/6705 http://momentscount.com/archives/6705#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:02:27 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=6705
In New York City, we tend to think (affectionately) of pigeons as kind of dirty, irritating birds—-but no one can deny that they can fly like the wind. Pigeons are sort of like NYC itself—stinky, infuriating, but still soaring. Mike Tyson has been in the news lately because he has raised hundreds of homing pigeons [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6705/feed 10 http://momentscount.com/archives/6646 http://momentscount.com/archives/6646#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:00:50 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=6646
iPhones use Download link Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, have you ever let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that learning something new will be difficult, or impossible, trusted yourself, and found out you could just do it…. with your eyes closed? Photo credit: kenji punzalan@Flickr  Music Credit: Kevin McLeod Please [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6646/feed 16 brain body connection,learning,teaching,trust yourself iPhones use Download link Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, have you ever let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that learning something new will be difficult, or impossible, trusted yourself, iPhones use Download link (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/kidsshoes.jpg)Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, have you ever let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that learning something new will be difficult, or impossible, trusted yourself, and found out you could just do it.... with your eyes closed? Photo credit: kenji punzalan@Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenjisnapshots/)  Music Credit: (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/kidsshoes.jpg)Kevin McLeod (http://www.incompetech.com) Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 8:03 http://momentscount.com/archives/6499 http://momentscount.com/archives/6499#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:01:59 +0000 Moments Count http://momentscount.com/?p=6499
By Jesse Prinz for Scientific American Did you ever get the giggles during a religious service or some other serious occasion? Did you ever have to smile politely when you felt like screaming? In these situations, the emotions that we are required to express differ from the ones we are feeling inside. That can be [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6499/feed 8 http://momentscount.com/archives/6363 http://momentscount.com/archives/6363#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:05:52 +0000 Lauren Rosenfeld http://momentscount.com/?p=6363
When you wake up in the morning and every blessed to-do on your to-do list is crying out “Pay attention to me first!” how do you decide? Every person, every task wants to be put front and center in your day. And there are times when the chaotic confusion of all these demands is so [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6363/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/6420 http://momentscount.com/archives/6420#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:01:38 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=6420
Words have power. In my line of work, I constantly see the positive and negative impact of words on the psyche. Words build. Words break. Without question, the effects of physical abuse can leave scars on the body and the spirit. Additionally, as research has now demonstrated, it is inarguable that how we are spoken [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6420/feed 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/5196 http://momentscount.com/archives/5196#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:10:53 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=5196
As we are about to enter the second decade of the 21st century (where did the FIRST one go????), it is good to get a little perspective on things. For example, will radio DJs continue to exhort us to listen to the hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and now the “00′s?” How [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5196/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/4339 http://momentscount.com/archives/4339#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:15:37 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=4339
They’re there. You know they are. The uninvited shadows in the night that grab at you when you aren’t looking. The sounds in the night you hear when you try and shut your mind. They’re out there. They are haunting you. You. They want you….. What are they? Photo Credit: Hocus Focus Click on Flickr [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4339/feed 0 The Moments Count Journal, inner demons, personal trauma, what haunts you, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, A Personal Haunting They're there. You know they are. The uninvited shadows in the night that grab at you when you aren't looking. The sounds in the night you hear when you try and shut your mind. They're out there. They are haunting you. You. They want you..... What are they? (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hauntedhouse.jpg) Photo Credit: Hocus Focus Click on Flickr Personal stress and trauma are very real and can be frightening to live with. If you or someone you know suffers from overwhelming stress or trauma there are very effective treatments available today that work on a deeper level and work more rapidly than ever before.  If you think these therapies, Brainspotting or EMDR, could release you or someone you love from the prison of overwhelming stress or trauma, please help yourself or them by contacting one of the following organizations for a referral to a professional in your area: To find a trained Brainspotting therapist in your area contact visit the International Brainspotting Directory. (http://lisaschwarz.com/brainspotting-directory/) For an explanation of Brainspotting, listen to the Moments Count Interview with Brainspotting discoverer, Dr. David Grand (http://momentscount.com/archives/1434) or read more about Brainspotting here (http://lisaschwarz.com/what-is-brainspotting/). To find a trained EMDR therapist in your area use this web resource (http://www.emdria.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=17) outside the United States. And use this web resource inside the United States (http://www.emdr.com/clinic.htm). For an explanation of EMDR therapy (http://www.emdria.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=56), it's history and uses, please visit this website. Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 4:57 http://momentscount.com/archives/1434 http://momentscount.com/archives/1434#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:20:32 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1434
http://momentscount.com Within the Mind's Eye: An adventure in seizing the moment, an interview with Dr. David Grand, inventor of Brainspotting, a revolutionary therapeutic technique that can effectively treat PTSD, ADD and ADHD, addictions, cravings, stuttering, phobias, anxiety and panic, anger and rage. It can greatly enhance pain management, sports performance, acting performance and creativity in general. And it can do this at warp speed when compared to other therapies.]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1434/feed 7 Moments Count, Brooke Leigh Sheldon, Valli Keller, Brainspotting, David Grand, PTSD, ADD, ADHD, addictions, cravings, stuttering, phobias, anxiety, panic, anger, rage. Within the Mind's Eye: An adventure in seizing the moment, an interview with Dr. David Grand Music: Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com) If you are using an iPhone please use the "Download" link to listen in Quicktime. The Moments Count Journal interviews Dr. David Grand, psychotherapist, author, film maker, producer, and inventor of a revolutionary technique for healing trauma - at light speed. Please feel free to download as many copies of this interview as you wish. If you or anyone you know needs this assistance, please provide them with a copy of this interview or with a link to this interview on our website (http://momentscount.com/archives/1434). To find a trained Brainspotting therapist in your area visit the International Brainspotting Directory. (http://lisaschwarz.com/brainspotting-directory/) (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mindseye.jpg) Click here to learn more about Brainspotting (http://lisaschwarz.com/what-is-brainspotting/) Click here to learn how Bilateral Music can help you (http://brookeleighsheldon.com/what-is-bilateral-music-sound/). Click here to purchase Bilateral Music (http://brookeleighsheldon.com/store/). David is the author of: (http://www.momentscount.com/images/51n0xc2SgjL._SL110_.jpg) (http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=javahousejour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001O8WNHA) Focusing on a "target image" associated with a traumatic memory, the client is led through a step-by-step process of recalling scenes, emotions and physical sensations while receiving "bilateral stimulation" through guided eye movements, alternating sounds in headphones or alternately receiving squeezes, massaging rubs or taps on the left and right sides of the body. According to Grand, one-time traumas (car accidents, bombings, hurricanes) can be released in one session, even in a few minutes, while deeper disturbances (repeated child abuse, war experiences) may take longer and may involve additional methods of therapy. He provides compelling anecdotal evidence of EMDR's effectiveness with train engineers traumatized by suicides and accidents on the tracks; survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing and Florida's Hurricane Andrew; mothers of slain children in Brooklyn; residents of Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Israel and the occupied territories; survivors of child abuse; and professional actors and athletes. Additional Works by Dr. David Grand I Witness: A play based on personal stories from the 9-11 disaster. Come Hell or High Water (see trailer below) Documentary of BrainSpotting Healing of trauma victims of Hurricane Katrina.  CHHW is currently playing at film festivals around the world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebY3hJVcRE[/youtube] Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 23:43 http://momentscount.com/archives/3567 http://momentscount.com/archives/3567#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=3567
For every single human being on the planet, there are at least 1.5 million ants. That basically means that the total mass of all the ants on the Earth is equal to the total mass of all the people on Earth. Did you know this???? Of all insects in the world, the ant has the [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3567/feed 3 http://momentscount.com/archives/3402 http://momentscount.com/archives/3402#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:22:15 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=3402
Science has come to an indisputable conclusion: Everything we perceive through our senses as external stuff, or matter, like the coffee table, a bumble bee, the sidewalk, the mountains, your neighbor, the earth, the cosmos, is only electrical signals in our brain. That’s it. Electrical signals. We see a colorful bird in our external world. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3402/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3340 http://momentscount.com/archives/3340#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:17:30 +0000 Lily Casura http://momentscount.com/?p=3340 http://momentscount.com/archives/3340/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2838 http://momentscount.com/archives/2838#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:53:57 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=2838
“We are non-local awareness residing temporarily in a physical body” Russell Targ, physicist and really smart guy, said this. Russell helped to develop the laser beam. He also co-founded the Stargate Project, a 23-year, $25-million, top-secret program of research funded by the US government, into psychic abilities and their use for the CIA and the [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2838/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/2698 http://momentscount.com/archives/2698#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:00:35 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=2698
iPhones use the download link to listen Shhh, come on over here…. sit with me, while I talk with my friend. Hey, you may know ‘em!! Or maybe you have a friend just like mine…..     Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2698/feed 0 moment count, the moments count journal, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, imaginary friend, Somebody's listening - to you iPhones use the download link to listen (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/imaginary-friend.jpg)Shhh, come on over here.... sit with me, while I talk with my friend. Hey, you may know 'em!! Or maybe you have a friend just like mine.....     Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 5:53 http://momentscount.com/archives/2626 http://momentscount.com/archives/2626#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:00:45 +0000 Lily Casura http://momentscount.com/?p=2626
There’s a lot of bad news going around: suicides up, PTSD wrecking lives and families, not much constructive help in sight. But here’s a story that’s GOOD news…about how much progress one combat vet with severe, chronic PTSD — for 40 years(!) — made in just a year of trying integrative medicine techniques and therapies, [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2626/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/2584 http://momentscount.com/archives/2584#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:13:29 +0000 Sandi Severson http://momentscount.com/?p=2584
To attain goals in music, business, love, diet, exercise, finance, or to overcome obstacles the first step is to slow down. Choose attainable goals. I suggested my student work on just a couple of measures (small segments) at a slow enough speed that she could stay mindful. ]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2584/feed 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/2491 http://momentscount.com/archives/2491#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:46:57 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=2491
Dolphins (like homing pigeons and other extraordinary animals) have navigational powers that seem inexplicable by Consensus Reality standards (the “reality” we all agree upon). Their extrasensory feats simply defy belief. Basically, humans have tried to invent highly advanced machines that end up barely mimicking what dolphins can do with their hands tied behind their backs. [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2491/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2381 http://momentscount.com/archives/2381#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 00:45:04 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=2381
“Real” means the perceptions that most people agree on. From the moment we are born, we are taught that most of our perceptions are (and should be) the same as our neighbor’s. What I perceive as a street sign or an orangutan will most surely be agreed upon by the lady across the street. That [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2381/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2254 http://momentscount.com/archives/2254#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:49:41 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=2254
Studies show that when something is learned by someone once, it is easier for somebody else to learn it again later! A pattern of thought or a behavior is more easily produced once it has been produced before. For example, in experiments, untrained rats must learn how to run or swim a maze to get [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2254/feed 4 http://momentscount.com/archives/2242 http://momentscount.com/archives/2242#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:47:52 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=2242
iPhones use Download link Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, if we let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that they will be difficult, hard or complex then perhaps we could figure out how to do them…. with our eyes closed. Music Credit: Kevin McLeod Photo Credit:  Kenji Punzalan Please share this [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2242/feed 0 moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, brain plasticity, neuroplasticity, First you learn to tie your shoes iPhones use Download link (http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/kidsshoes-300x200.jpg)Sometimes even the simplest of tasks require adaptation. But, if we let go of planning, expecting or anticipating that they will be difficult, hard or complex then perhaps we could figure out how to do them.... with our eyes closed. Music Credit: Kevin McLeod (http://www.incompetech.com) Photo Credit:  Kenji Punzalan Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 8:03 http://momentscount.com/archives/1616 http://momentscount.com/archives/1616#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:53:19 +0000 Christine Ranck http://momentscount.com/?p=1616
Carl Jung, Shrink Extraordinaire, was a protege of Sigmund Freud, another shrink extraordinaire. But then they had a fight and broke up. This was probably a good thing for all of us. Carl Jung studied unbelievable coincidences, and came up with the word “synchronicities.” This famous story is fascinating. Jung had been working with a [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1616/feed 0