Category: accept

Climate change. Accepting…

Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past societies responded to climate change. (1)

The study is trying to understand how people in the past changed the species of crops or the types of animals they bred when climate changed in the past.

However, this study is missing one very fundamental aspect of the whole problem. One aspect we choose not to see because it will unsettle us from the way we have learnt to think for hundreds of years now.

People in the past coped with changes in climate not because they pre-planned things. They coped with changes in climate because they just… accepted change in climate. And as a result of that they were able to adapt. Instead of doing so, we are trying to plan everything beforehand. We are trying to design new species, to design new crops, before anything happens because we see it will happen. As if the change will happen so fast that we will not be able to cope if we didn’t do so. We are so much preoccupied with being prepared for everything, that in the process we lose not only our own calmness, time and money, but our soul as well. We are all well prepared for everything, but we fail to see that we have stopped savoring the very thing we started to protect in the first place.

Spending billions of dollars in research.

And yet people starve and die of hunger as we speak.

Soon we will have the perfect species designed for the future.

Soon, all people will be starving.

Even the fed ones…

Removing fear. Why?

Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo some form of aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn’t harmful after all. However, this therapy is inherently unpleasant, and many choose not to pursue it. Now a team of neuroscientists from the University of Cambridge, Japan and the USA, has found a way of unconsciously removing a fear memory from the brain.

The team developed a method to read and identify a fear memory using a new technique called ‘Decoded Neurofeedback’. The technique used brain scanning to monitor activity in the brain, and identify complex patterns of activity that resembled a specific fear memory. In the experiment, a fear memory was created in 17 healthy volunteers by administering a brief electric shock when they saw a certain computer image. When the pattern was detected, the researchers over-wrote the fear memory by giving their experimental subjects a reward. The team repeated the procedure over three days. Volunteers were told that the monetary reward they earned depended on their brain activity, but they didn’t know how. (1)

Erasing fear with rewards.

Erasing fear with fear.

The only thing modern humans have not learned (or have rather forgot) is to accept. To accept things as they are. To accept the fear. To accept their own self, instead of trying to change it.

It may seem the easy coward choice, but it is quite the opposite.

It takes a lot of courage to accept.

And only those who fear enough can do it…

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