Value for Friday of Week 41 in the season of Assessing

Healing

Returning home, taking comfort, making peace with and embracing the past all make healing possible.

Emotional healing is the process of recovering from emotional pain and trauma. It involves working through feelings of hurt, grief, anger, or fear that arise from past experiences, and gradually restoring emotional well-being. This journey enables us to come to terms with our experiences, release pent-up emotions, and ultimately find a way to move forward with a healthier mental state. The emotional healing process typically includes acknowledging and expressing your feelings, seeking support, practicing self-care, and sometimes, professional therapy.”  “. . . emotional well-being predicts long-term prognosis of physical illness. This suggests that enhancement of emotional well-being may improve the prognosis of physical illness . . .” “Emotional healing becomes more plausible when the patient’s inner strength attains the level of strength of the disturbance, represented by ‘level of potency’, which allows the patient to cope with his/her disturbance more successfully.

Real

True Narratives

Technical and Analytical Readings

Photographs

Documentary and Educational Films

Imaginary

Fictional Narratives

Novels:

From the dark side:

Poetry

Books of poems:

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (1846) (approx. 35-40’), “began to take shape at the end of 1845, shortly after his recovery from a nervous breakdown. His comment then to Felix Mendelssohn, ‘drums and trumpets have been sound- ing in my mind for some time now,’ might strike us as a wry reflection on his dis- turbed mental condition, replete with aural fantasies, of the year preceding.” “The narrative of the C major Symphony is that of the journey from despair to healing and redemption”. In this work, “Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him”. Top recorded performances are conducted by Toscanini in 1941, Bernstein in 1960, Szell in 1969, Karajan in 1971, Sawallisch in 1972, Kubelik in 1978, Gardiner in 1998, Gielen in 2010, Holliger in 2012, Abbado in 2013, and Thielemann in 2018.

Perhaps Tibetan chant offers the music most overtly focused on healing:

Many pastoral-toned short works by British music suggest a return home to England’s soothing and verdant landscape.

Charles Koechlin, chamber works:

Other compositions:

Albums:

Music: songs and other short pieces

Visual Arts

Film and Stage

This Is Our Story

A religion of values and Ethics, driven by love and compassion, informed by science and reason.

PART ONE: OUR STORY

First ingredient: Distinctions. What is the core and essence of being human? What is contentment, or kindliness, or Love? What is gentleness, or service, or enthusiasm, or courage? If you follow the links, you see at a glance what these concepts mean.

PART TWO: ANALYSIS

This site would be incomplete without an analytical framework. After you have digested a few of the examples, feel free to explore the ideas behind the model. I would be remiss if I did not give credit to my inspiration for this work: the Human Faith Project of Calvin Chatlos, M.D. His demonstration of a model for Human Faith began my exploration of this subject matter.

A RELIGION OF VALUES

A baby first begins to learn about the world by experiencing it. A room may be warm or cool. The baby learns that distinction. As a toddler, the child may strike her head with a rag doll, and see that it is soft; then strike her head with a wooden block, and see that it is hard. Love is a distinction: she loves me, or she doesn’t love me. This is true of every human value:

justice, humility, wisdom, courage . . . every single one of them.

This site is dedicated to exploring those distinctions. It is based on a model of values that you can read about on the “About” page. However, the best way to learn about what is in here is the same as the baby’s way of learning about the world: open the pages, and see what happens.

ants organic action machines

Octavio Ocampo, Forever Always

Jacek Yerka, House over the Waterfall

Norman Rockwell, Carefree Days Ahead

WHAT YOU WILL SEE HERE

When you open tiostest.wpengine.com, you will see a human value identified at the top of the page. The value changes daily. These values are designed to follow the seasons of the year.

You will also see an overview of the value, or subject for the day, and then two columns of materials.

The left-side column presents true narratives, which include biographies, memoirs, histories, documentary films and the like; and also technical and analytical writings.

The right-side columns presents the work of the human imagination: fictional novels and stories, music, visual art, poetry and fictional film.

Each entry is presented to help identify the value. Open some of the links and experience our human story, again. It belongs to us all, and each of us is a part of it.

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