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Tag Archives: learning
Learning, Cats, Bedbugs, Cilantro. Connected, Really.
“Neuroplasticity” is an umbrella term for the revolutionary discovery that the brain has, in the words of psychiatrist Norman Doidge, “the ability to change its own structure and learn to replace lost functions.” The brain is resilient, in other words. … Continue reading
Nonviolence : The Question
The other day a blogger-friend posted news of one of her cats having been injured in a feline-fight. I responded there, in one of my annoying amusing edgy-jokey moods, recommending that the injured cat should bone up on his nonviolence … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Philosophy-Psychology, Things Cats, Humans Do, Uncategorized
Tagged amygdala, cat, compassion, cortex, empathy, Hitler, just war, learning, limbic system, Marshall Rosenberg, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, neurotransmitter, Nonviolence, Nonviolent Communication, protective use of force, Violence
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Bugs and Bean Take It Up A Notch
Writing on Father’s Day, I dedicate this post to my essentially kind departed father. Zichrono l’bracha. It’s been too long without a picture of His Highness, so let me get that done next. This was shot back in the day … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Pictures, Tellington Touch, TTouch, Things Cats, Humans Do, Uncategorized
Tagged Aikido, awareness, Baja California Sur, brain science, cactus, cats, Cesar Millan, clowder, dog whisperer, Feldenkrais, indoor, indoor cat, jumping cholla, learning, Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Tellington Touch, TTouch, valerian
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What Do Cats Want?
That’d be Freud, asking: What do women want? As if, whatever it is, it wouldn’t make any sense. As if being blamed, for five thousand years, for getting us booted out of the Garden isn’t enough to make anyone nuts. … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Philosophy-Psychology, Pictures, Tellington Touch, TTouch
Tagged broccoli, cats, cauliflower, Feldenkrais, fingerprint, fractals, growth, individual, learning, nosepads, noses, Sigmund Freud, Tellington Touch, training, TTouch, unique, Yvan Joly
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Bugs Hones His Skills
Here Bugs reviews the route plan for his next assault on Karakorum. He’d just read this, from the Society for Neuroscience: “[C]areful studies in both humans and animals. . . provide clear evidence that sleep is indeed important for at … Continue reading
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