Four body- and nature-based practices to move your life force

This piece shares four invitations to reconnect with your energy, vitality, and wholeness. Shape-shifting into an animal gives you access to a sense of life force that is unmediated by demands and expectations of the human world. With pairs or opposites, you can explore two qualities that exist simultaneously, including emotions, situations or choices. These might be in harmony or tension with each other or within you, and you can explore and learn from both without judgement or bias. Nature as a teacher provides an opportunity to walk with a specific question in mind. Through close observation, you will find guidance or answers to your question. Finally, dancing your soul back offers a danced version of soul retrieval, if you feel disconnected from yourself or from an essential quality in your life. Although they are inspired by shamanic dance practices, you need no previous experience with either dance or shamanism to try them out. You can practise them at home or in a place in nature where you feel safe and connected.

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Signs and sentiment in British wildlife art

Extending Ecocriticism ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781784994396.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

William Welstead

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Affective Response ◽

Level Of Abstraction ◽

Critical Attention ◽

Close Observation ◽

Human World ◽

The Subject ◽

Visual Clues ◽

The Way

Wildlife art does not receive the critical attention that it deserves. In this chapter, William Welstead considers how the images made after close observation in the field incorporate the signs and visual clues that enable us to identify the species, have some idea of what the individuals are doing and how they relate to the wider environment. These are all important factors in building an informed view of the non-human world and establishing how we feel about it. Wildlife artists tread a difficult path between serving science and catering for the affective response of viewers and between the representational and the abstract in depicting their subject matter. Welstead suggests that the way we recognise wildlife by its overall look or ‘jizz’ means that drawings and paintings can capture in a few lines and shapes the essence of the creature. This economical application of lines and colour therefore allows for at least some level of abstraction. The subject would merit further attention from ecocritics.

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Forms of Emotional Knowing and Unknowing: Skepticism and Belief in Dickinson’s Poetry, Rick Anthony Furtak

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190651190.003.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 31-58

Author(s):

Rick Anthony Furtak

Keyword(s):

Emotional States ◽

Philosophical Thinking ◽

Partial Resolution ◽

Surrounding World ◽

The World ◽

Human World ◽

At Home

Continually at issue in Dickinson’s verse are the possibilities and limits of knowing the surrounding world, including the minds of others. Many of her poems give voice to wonder, frustration, and the feeling of illumination or insight, along with other emotional states involved in exploring the promise of knowledge and confronting skeptical questions. My chapter is focused especially on moments in Dickinson’s poetry when an encounter with the natural or human world is portrayed as moving the speaker toward either an intensification or a partial resolution of doubt—a dialectic through which she articulates the affective struggle to make sense of the world and to find herself at home in it. As I show, the philosophical thinking that unfolds in her lyrics is preoccupied with a characteristic human lament about our finite limitations and with a contrary, but intimately related, longing to be reconciled with our finitude.

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Does Exclusive Breastfeeding Increase After Hospital Discharge? A Greek Study

Journal of Human Lactation ◽

10.1177/0890334407300384 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 165-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Chryssa Bakoula ◽

Polyxeni Nicolaidou ◽

Alexandra Veltsista ◽

Anargyroula Prezerakou ◽

Maria Moustaki ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Health System ◽

Hospital Discharge ◽

Infant Feeding ◽

Exclusive Breastfeeding ◽

Previous Experience ◽

Breastfeeding Initiation ◽

Infant Feeding Practices ◽

Maternity Ward ◽

At Home

To monitor the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in Greek maternity wards and to investigate possible changes in infant-feeding practices during the first month after hospital discharge, the authors questioned 4310 Greek mothers from 7 hospitals on the fourth day postpartum. Odds ratios were calculated to estimate the effects of health system, demographic, psychosocial, and environmental factors. Any breastfeeding and full breastfeeding initiation rates were 85% and 23%, respectively. One month postpartum, the corresponding rates of any and exclusive breastfeeding were 79% and 61%, respectively. Mothers of infants who lacked continuous rooming-in while in the maternity ward (OR, 2.08; 95% CI, 1.27-3.40) and with previous experience of breastfeeding (OR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.19-1.79) were more likely to reestablish exclusive breastfeeding at home despite the use of supplementation in the maternity ward. It seems women are capable of overcoming supplementation in hospital and can revert to exclusive breastfeeding at home. J Hum Lact. 23(2):165-173.

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Factors Determining the Choice of Place of Delivery among Antenatal Attendees in Primary Health Care Centres in Lafia Nigeria

TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH ◽

10.21522/tijph.2013.09.03.art015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 171-180

Author(s):

Bello Surajudeen Oyeleke

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Workers ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Educational Status ◽

Normal Pregnancy ◽

Home Delivery ◽

Previous Experience ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Place Of Delivery ◽

In Pregnancy ◽

At Home

Unskilled home delivery is a threat to maternal and child health. In Northern Nigeria, many pregnant women attend antenatal care but opt to deliver at home. This study determined knowledge on pregnancy outcome, the burden of home delivery, and factors contributing to the choice of place of delivery. A cross-sectional study was done with the subjects selected by multi-stage sampling. The data was analyzed using SPSS. Results were presented in frequencies and percentages with chi-square used in determining the statistical significance between the socio-demographic characteristics and the choice of a planned place of delivery. The mean age of participants is 27.6±5.0 years. Of the 404 participants and 43.3% are from the lower social status. Most participants were delivered at home due to sudden labour (25.6%), lack of transportation (20.5%), high cost of hospital deliveries (13.7%). Most understand that leg swelling may connote problems in Pregnancy, Hypertension can occur in Pregnancy, and a normal pregnancy may become complicated. Educational status, health worker’s attitudes, previous experience, ease of transportation, and numbers of parity are all significant determinants of the choice of place of delivery (p<0.0001). Most participants delivered in the hospital, but a significant number still delivers at home despite knowing that Hypertension can occur in Pregnancy and that normal Pregnancy can become complicated. Reasons for their decision were lack of transportation means, an attitude of healthcare workers, and high cost of hospital deliveries. The major determinant of choice of delivery place is; educational status, previous experience, and attitude of healthcare workers. Keywords: Choice, Determining, Delivery, Factors, Place, Pregnant.

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Siblings of Children with Mental Retardation Living at Home or in Residential Placement

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0021963097002084 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 355-363 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Laurie Eisenberg ◽

Bruce L. Baker ◽

Jan Blacher

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Residential Placement ◽

At Home

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Systematic Modification of Parental Input to Train Language Symbols

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1201.04 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 4-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Barbara Culatta ◽

Donna Horn

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Meaningful Use ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Specific Language ◽

Parental Input ◽

Language Exposure ◽

Therapy Sessions ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children ◽

At Home

This study attempted to maximize environmental language learning for four hearing-impaired children. The children's mothers were systematically trained to present specific language symbols to their children at home. An increase in meaningful use of these words was observed during therapy sessions. In addition, as the mothers began to generalize the language exposure strategies, an increase was observed in the children's use of words not specifically identified by the clinician as targets.

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Iterative Development of a Home Review Program to Promote Preschoolers' Vocabulary Skills: Social Validity and Learning Outcomes

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/2019_lshss-19-00011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 371-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Xigrid Soto ◽

Yagmur Seven ◽

Meaghan McKenna ◽

Keri Madsen ◽

Lindsey Peters-Sanders ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Stress ◽

Social Validity ◽

Home Language ◽

Single Subject ◽

Considerable Difficulty ◽

Home Program ◽

Iterative Development ◽

Vocabulary Skills ◽

Validity Measures ◽

At Home

Purpose This article describes the iterative development of a home review program designed to augment vocabulary instruction for young children (ages 4 and 5 years) occurring at school through the use of a home review component. Method A pilot study followed by two experiments used adapted alternating treatment designs to compare the learning of academic words taught at school to words taught at school and reviewed at home. At school, children in small groups were taught academic words embedded in prerecorded storybooks for 6 weeks. Children were given materials such as stickers with review prompts (e.g., “Tell me what brave means”) to take home for half the words. Across iterations of the home intervention, the home review component was enhanced by promoting parent engagement and buy-in through in-person training, video modeling, and daily text message reminders. Visual analyses of single-subject graphs, multilevel modeling, and social validity measures were used to evaluate the additive effects and feasibility of the home review component. Results Social validity results informed each iteration of the home program. The effects of the home program across sites were mixed, with only one site showing consistently strong effects. Superior learning was evident in the school + home review condition for families that reviewed words frequently at home. Although the home review program was effective in improving the vocabulary skills of many children, some families had considerable difficulty practicing vocabulary words. Conclusion These studies highlight the importance of using social validity measures to inform iterative development of home interventions that promote feasible strategies for enhancing the home language environment. Further research is needed to identify strategies that stimulate facilitators and overcome barriers to implementation, especially in high-stress homes, to enrich the home language environments of more families.

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