Day: August 9, 2018

Hypervigilance

There is no absolute way of determining how vigilant we should be.It depends on where we are, as ,say  a battlefield or a buttercup meadow.It will depend on past trauma or disturbances and no doubt on our personality.But on a battlefield or a violent home it is normal to be more vigilant
But maybe we can’t turn if off………20954068_978980462241832_8987522487697136249_n

Whitby Abbey steps by Katherine

 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319289.php

 

“This super alertness makes people with hypervigilance feel and act as though there is always a threat around the corner.

Normally, they are not responding to a real threat. Rather, their brain is overanalyzing, and overreacting to, input from their senses.

Hypervigilance can be a symptom of:

DNA is not Destiny

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http://discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/cover

An old article but well worth reading

 

Extract

 

Our DNA—specifically the 25,000 genes identified by the Human Genome Project—is now widely regarded as the instruction book for the human body. But genes themselves need instructions for what to do, and where and when to do it. A human liver cell contains the same DNA as a brain cell, yet somehow it knows to code only those proteins needed for the functioning of the liver. Those instructions are found not in the letters of the DNA itself but on it, in an array of chemical markers and switches, known collectively as the epigenome, that lie along the length of the double helix. These epigenetic switches and markers in turn help switch on or off the expression of particular genes. Think of the epigenome as a complex software code, capable of inducing the DNA hardware to manufacture an impressive variety of proteins, cell types, and individuals.

My joy

I spread my body  like a summer mist
To cover you and hold you with my joy
Recalling days when we were both well kissed
And how our gentle hands were sweet deployed

Eternity is here if we can feel
If we are open to the singing air
In that place our love is much more real
And all the world is smiling and  is fair

The sword of love will run us through and through
The agony of love is also fierce
Yet who would   wish to live untouched and new
No love, no pain,no torment,nothing pierced.

Then  living with  hearts open and reclaimed
Indifference cannot  wrap us in its chains

What binds us by Jane Hirshfield

Photo0183https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/what-binds-us

For What Binds Us

Jane Hirshfield, 1953

There are names for what binds us:
strong forces, weak forces.
Look around, you can see them:
the skin that forms in a half-empty cup,
nails rusting into the places they join,
joints dovetailed on their own weight.
The way things stay so solidly
wherever they’ve been set down—
and gravity, scientists say, is weak.

And see how the flesh grows back
across a wound, with a great vehemence,
more strong
than the simple, untested surface before.
There’s a name for it on horses,
when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh,

as all flesh
is proud of its wounds, wears them
as honors given out after battle,
small triumphs pinned to the chest-

And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.