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Note to Behavioral Therapists

Because my own behavioral issues,
and my own public political and economic issues,
follow my own vocal trauma communication concerns
and bad-health memories,

It seems my most effective management therapies
usually begin more cooperatively
more quietly spoken in vocal kindness,
and then move on to behavioral mindfulness
to focus on expressing active compassion,
as needed
and invited,
verbally and non-verbally.

If I can leftbrain need to articulate cooperative intent
and rightbrain feel compassionately active hope,
then healthier integral behaviors tend to follow
by seeking co-acclimation
in-between these self/other needs with co-arising feelings
affluently/effluently communing.

I do not conclude
from these experiences and memories
that behavioral therapies are misguided
or misdirected.

But, I do both need and feel
behaviors are both non-verbally and verbally communicated,
with or without aggressive competitive intent,
and usually somewhere ambiguously in-between
interdependence and fragmentation,
regenerative and degenerating intent.

 

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Cooperatively Resourcing Democratic Health

I was a highly competitive,
and chronically frustrated,
public and private sector grant writer
before I turned to this prose-poetry research format,
inspired by reading Buckminster Fuller’s universal Left Hemisphere
synergetic with, and never dissonant against,
his Right Hemisphere’s unitarian-holistic flow
wave-linear cooperative wealth
of reiterating polypathic communication patterns,
redundant fractal-fertile rhythms
all emanating from his Left patriarchal prominent language
and his Right cooperative matriarchal co-passioning
Left/Right creolizations,
averse to snarky competitive Left v Right narcissistic colonizations,
predations not unlike those still too monotheistic angry-God zealous writers,
devoid of proper healthy-wealth,
NonZero-Zone compassion,
generosity,
good faith in Earth WinWin historic centrism.

I thought we would do better in our CapitalCity investment region,
and in Connecticut,
and in our New England bioregion,
and in North American continental constitutions,
and in the Western-RightHand dominant hemisphere,
and in any Eastern-LeftRecessive interdependent integrity hemispheres,
and on Whole Open System Earth,
and throughout this ZeroZone synergetically positive co-relational
bilateral
outsideYang/insideYin
health-wealth resourcing enterprise,

Breathing precessively in
to breathe recessively out again,
thick deductive ego-receiving strength
to feel inductively co-passioning
eco-habitat giving effluently thin
Zero ZenZone outflow

Of cooperative planned,
balance designed,
integrity implemented,
synergetically managed,
systemically evaluated,
and organically re-invested
with WinWin compassioning therapeutic intent
each grateful breath wave-linear cycle,
each compassioning year
in a nonsectarian celebration
of what we have learned together
about how to cooperatively improve
our resilient health programs

Our co-passionate investments
for next breath’s
next year’s healthy-wealth optimization;

Which green inside and outside client health outcomes
we will expansively grow
by watering and feeding most
where we are WinWin weak but improving,
by maintaining where already WinWin strong
and Yang/Yin steady healthflow trending,
and divesting of where we remain WinLose stuck
drifting off toward terrifying LoseLose
climate and monocultural pathologies.

So, you might well imagine
I was frustrated by sitting alone in front of my monitor and keyboard,
writing autonomous ego-centered and in-corporate-centric competitions,
while wanting to play a much more WinWin inclusively generous game
not in WinLose economic assumptions of ZeroSum competitions
ecological and political and social-psychologically ambiguous
and dissonantly disempowering
unfocused health proposal-writing chaotic messes
felt behaviorally and unfaithfully unsettling lack of good faith
in both cognitive-Left and emotionally cooperative-Right integrity,

As if I lived on an interdependent WinWin Earth outside evinced,
while communing with cooperative flocks of birds
and our strong-rooted tree habitats
and nutritious green self-healthing cooperative forests,
while all my inside grant requesting
and giving ZeroSum winning or losing voices
would not just stop
for one ZeroZone silent moment
to peacefully smell our cooperatively compassionate organic coffee
and herbal tea
and whole grain muffins
baked in an open regenerative fire circle
of Earth’s vast timeless
trans-historic WinWin bright
night
light of integral systemic cooperativity.

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Candle of Hope

I am in my newly adopted Green Sanctuary
enjoying our communal celebration
of all things nutritionally healthy

When the ecofeminist facilitator announces
it is now our time to light three candles of hope.

She invites our Greek chorus
to speak these candles’ brightening intention.
Various voices give shout outs of ongoing despair
for lack of healthy cooperativity growing darkly drear
competitions in Virginia
and Syria
and capital-city hysteria
nearly every Win or Lose ZeroSum place.

But,
I was thinking of shining more light on seeds of winwin hope,
Like most everything in Yes! magazine
and in Permaculture Design magazine
and in Restorative Justice
and NonViolent Communication classes everywhere.

Hope cooperatively owned and managed
universally celebrated in green businesses
and uniting household sanctuaries
and eco-villages,
good-faith intentional communities,
communions of nutritional integrity
springing up across Earth’s multiculturing planet.

Hope shouting out for creolization over colonization,
for unity over uniformity,
for freedom for active love and not just freedom from chronic fear.

Hope for lefts with rights,
for adaptive deductions with adoptive inductions,
for natural systems with spiritual networks,
for secular knowledge with sacred wisdom,
for yang with yin, and never against,
for ecofeminists with cooperative-parenting matriarchs,
for spatial now with temporal not not yet,
for universal OneZones with unitarian multi-lateral ZeroZones,
for equal dignity of egos within interdependent webs of ecohabitats.

I did not speak my active hopes aloud,
worried they might feel too aggressively intrusive,
so not even one candle is lit
for healthy compassionate climates
cooperatively impassioned hope,
for investments already planted,
growing up and out wealth
of green and black and brown and white and blue and red
and ultra-nonviolent resilience.

How will this liturgy incarnate cooperative compassion
becoming non-violently viral?
Without everyday resonations,
articulations of interdependent ego/eco-balancing,
bicamerally becoming,
pro-active shout-out Hope! impassioners.

Green sanctuary history lessons
often miss what’s going on
with other Yes! multicultures,

Miss what has gone on in non-sectarian
good-faith
green cultures,

Miss what and whom have not yet nutritionally come
within our potential 7-grain interdependent 2020 communion.

Green sanctuary celebrants
mistake our despair for WinWin opportunities missed
for candles of hope unlit
omitting interdependent risks
to celebrate more extensively
within Earth’s healthy polycultural strengths
not yet grown adoptively,
but known adaptively
within as without
one interdependent trans-generational web
of healthing wealthy life.

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Dear Ivy

Dear Ivy,

I am sorry we did not receive even just a moment to say goodbye
and thank you to each other
for all those school bus rides we took together,
you in your harness,
and me in my wonder
about what’s coming next
from your talking head
to mine.

It is time for me to move on
to another student,
but I am happy to leave you in Miss Josie’s care.

I know she will enjoy your time
invested in each other,

Listening and taking turns speaking kindly with each other,
Singing and maybe even a little dancing together,
reading and drawing as light and bumps allow.

Maybe you can teach each other
some new KnockKnock jokes.

KnockKnock.
Who’s there?
Sandi.
Sandy who?
Sandy sandwiches
are not good for you.

KnockKnock.
Who’s there?
Josie.
Josie who?
Jo see for yourself,
Open the door!

I am grateful to have so many silly and lovely memories
of you
to take with me.

And, the greatest farewell gift you could give me
is your reassurance
that these same warm and happy memories
of us
are what you will carry with you
throughout your great adventurous journey
into well-being.

Warmly yours,

Sandi

Sandi who?
Sandy snacks
are not so good for you.

Note:

My behaviorally disordered ADHD and fetal alcoholic daughter, with abandonment issues and deep-seeded food anxiety issues, suddenly lost her long-standing school bus aide, probably to compassion burn-out.  Ivy can be a profound motivator of impatience in those around her, even with deep and widely developed caregiving and receiving skills. This is the farewell that I think Ivy would have found more therapeutic than the isolating complexities of disappearance without explanation or expressed gratitude for what did co-relationally work for so long.

To be clear, not saying goodbye was an administrative decision from above; not what Ivy’s aide wanted for herself or for Ivy.

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NonViolent Communion

A positive,
though obscure and academic
and also too multi-syllabic
way to say “non-violent communication”
which is rather like saying “non-oxymoronic”
because we are left wondering more precisely
what these terms could less aggressively not include,
is “enthymematic communication.”

Enthymematic messages
always carry positive
health-inspired,
wealth-intended
Both/And
Left with RightBrain balancing,
co-empathic co-passionate rooted
inside mood matches outside receiver’s verbal/non-verbal climate

Of multicultural polypathic resonance,
sensitivity,
solidarity with eco-receiver’s
personal/political WinWin trends,
multigenerational historic/herstoried Yang/Yin
Left liberally embodied
with ElderRight conservationally minded
DNA health/wealth traits.

So, you can see why “non-violent communication”
doesn’t quite seem to capture it’s full revolutionary
restorative justice potential
within compassionate green peace
ecological
theological
nature-spirit non-sectarian
enthymematic
polypathic
transubstantiating secular/sacred communions
for deep learning universal/unitarian
100% Zero ZenZone integrity

Of bicameral positive psychology
RealTime healthy energy democracy
for green EarthTribe non-manic sanctuary
cooperatively-owned communication potential,
voiced enthymematically
by all chirping and tweeting and surfing and swaying
and jumping and swimming
and dancing and singing
cooperative communion to-gatherers.

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Life and Death

Liberal lovers
claim maternal rights
to reproductive powers of yes and no,
maybe and not yet lives.

While conservative haters
demand paternalistic rights
to purchase and bear deproductive automated powers of terminal wrong,
terrorizingly maybe and not yet deaths.

I would not think
we would need a PhD in health care
environmental science
or divine arts and crafts
to see which leans closer
to full-score democratic resilience,
maybe and not yet quite polypathic resonance.

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Restoring EarthJustice

How do we get to restoring democratic energy justice
for all EarthTribes?

Especially when those not originally enfranchised
in our GoodHealth Constitutions,
like slaves
like non-patriarchal
non-white
non-anthro
non-ego-centric
non-elite subcultures
advocating for non-violent communication
inside health and outside wealthy green climates
probably don’t feel this is even a restoration
of what was rhetorically said
but never actually embodied,
incarnated in ForeFather’s Original Historical Intent
for health, well-being, wealth of wisdom,
internal/external
spiritual/natural ZeroZone integrity
of prosperity.

NonElite victims, witnesses
to monocultural powers
operating above our lowly legalistic scale
of current political values and opportunities,
Argue we cannot reincarnate
a WholeSystem democracy
that was not originally incarnated

Just as we can never go home again
to that green egalitarian place
that never non-violently communicated
or even historically existed
this side of Paradise.

Just as community organizers
and non-violent communication facilitators,
speaking from too many political
and personal disappointments,
often observe
We cannot cooperatively outcome healthy wealth
without originally compassionately inputing
multicultural wealthy health of positive non-sectarian Trust

Wherein all voices with diverse needs
and feelings
are actively supported to speak
through resilient polypathic co-arising hope
for WinWin opportunities
where LoseLose risks today feel
most internal economic
and external climate ecologically ready
to degenerate
what we really should and could regenerate
back again toward Whole Earth
energetic health generation,
trans-regenerational,
pan-sectarian
polytheistic through mono-ego-atheistic
polypathic resilience
revolving Earth’s nutritional seasons
with historic/herstoric reasons,
reason, ego- and eco-logical solidarity paths,
narrowly, deeply, widely tipping
tap-toeing
slipping-sliding
co-arising
polyphonic DNA health-quality 4D flow resonance.

How and when do we not get to destroy despotic retributive injustice
against all Earth?

All plants,
all ego-ecological binomial people
composed of positive energy democracy
regeneratively intended root DNA health systems,
networks,
revolving global 4D ecofeminist green webs;
Not personally narcissistic,
politically cynical
red-overstated
needy yet unfeeling Walls.

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Compassion Politics

In good government sectors,
Inside capital-driven outside energized urban environments,
In healthy cooperative societies,
In proper green-civilizing schools,
and domestically robust economies,

Outer boundary views
remain openly and resiliently cooperative,
while less universally compassionate internal views,
from within each everyday and night non-sabbath,
non-elite ego-fragmentary, yet still eco-interdependent parts,
may compete for fair healthy investment share
to become sufficiently noticed
known
and appreciated.

In privately incorporated company(ies),
competition schools
and within ZeroSum economic assumptions:
If humanity Wins
then Earth must inevitably Lose,
promoting political systems running away
without balancing ecologically empowering economies,

Outer culture-boundary views
appear ponderously, narrowly, thickly, impermeably closed-off
by past competitions in self-defensive ego-promotion,

While more internal cooperative cultures
may privately long for healthier resilience,
for wealthiest co-passioning market corners,
cracks
healing positive revolutionary feelings and needs
to restore paid forward forgiveness
healing neglected, yet still malleable,
co-responsive climate fissures.

Despotic WalledSystem defensive dogma,
personally narcissistic
and politically cynical
and economically sadistic,
with realistic faith only in competitive business predators
result in short-term divestments away from cooperatively-owned health,
with outcomes stealing from next year’s
next generation’s authentically open opportunities
to compete against time
to cooperatively win
Earth’s annual health-market popularity contest,

A realistically healthy government sector
invests Earth-patriotically
ego-rationally
and eco-logically
in deep learning economies
promoting long-term communally resilient health
re-investments of and for Earth’s positively energetic democracy.

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Avoiding Draining Dissonance

Aspiring for WinWin cooperative outcomes
is a prerequisite of non-verbal
non-competitive communication behaviors,
as non-violent communication climates
and humane cultured environments
are responsive
to verbally cooperative hope
committed to resilient good-faith communication.

Cynicism and anger and fear and greed
are not as contagious
as hope and happiness and good humor and generosity
when these are as effectively
and consistently WinWin communicated
non-violently
as their darker bipolar cousins are not watered,
understood as too aggressive,
too competitively communicated
through uncaring aggressive actions and/or words,
behaviors and cognitive-affective belief systems.

WinWin cognition cultures and feeling climates
are more nutritionally contagious,
more politically and personally effective
than WinLose viral cynic contagion
when positive hope is supported
by a healthy cooperative personal
and environmental
therapy-fueling investment in co-ownership,
feeding eco-stewardship
because WinWin is our original nurtured experience,
our default birthright
while still immersed in a neural developing system
inside our individual EarthMother nutritional womb.

We each know WinLose cynicism about WinWin potential
is adolescently learned through growing egocentrism,

LeftBrain dominant EitherWin/OrLose deductions
reductively contagious toxic behavior
and bad faith passive-aggressive expression
of cognitive-affective dissonance,
disinvestment away from mature WinWin health,
nutritionally nurtured
and originally polypath-natured
enspirited
contagious good healthy humors

Positive and negatively viral
for the same reasons
we associate tears of happiness with hope
and tears of anger with despair,
personal and political,
egocentric and ecosystemic,
yang with yin,
left with right, co-passionate contagions

Courageous verbally articulated wonder
with curious non-verbal silent awe,

Politically staged
with resilient economic WinWin co-operative fuel,
producing polyculturing flowers
with healthy everybody wins curiosity,
exploration,
creolizing self-as-other discovery,
mesmerizing heuristic root systems
volcanically erupting into deeper fertile soils,
pan-sectarian hope-filling souls

Aspiring to cooperative WinWin outcomes
invested in non-competitive communication behaviors
and voices
and original nutritional intent.

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ReGenerating 2020 Hope

I once heard,
Hope is what can positively happen
after listening to all the realistic facts
and then continuing in good faith anyway.

I also heard,
Cynicism about others,
like narcissism about oneself,
is sadly generative,
expansively powerful,
contagious

Just as hope about others
and compassion with oneself
are happily generative,
exponentially win/win contagious.

Both negative and positive attitudes are generative,
but hope is cooperatively regenerative
while external cynicism,
like internal narcissism,
like ecopolitical fascism,
is degenerative,
competitively contagious,
inviting a long, slow, painful
lose/lose death.

Cynicism flirts with Lose/Lose outcomes
projections
often escalated by competing
“If you think that’s horrible enough,
listen to this terrifying
or merely titillating tale…”

Despite our broken
wounded
depressing cynically competing natures
and narcissistic nurtures
of Business As Usual stories of competing
capital-hoarding ego-centrism,
Active 2020 hope looks for WinLeft/WinRight options,
plans,
eco-operatively reassociating
mutual ego-healing
across all multicultural
and polypathic
non-sectarian
good-faith systems,
cooperatively-owned nutritional networks.

Cynicism projects Earth’s LoseLose demise.
Scepticism questions, doubts, humanity’s WinLose economy
could ever become a long-term healthy trajectory.
Optimism actively hopes a short-term investment
in egocentric deflation, dis-investment, detachment
will lead to long-term Lose to Win
healthier egocentric evolution
some other climate darkening day.

WinWin optimization
cooperatively goodfaiths (gospels), mentor
models short-term through long-term compassionate ecstasy
restoring peace and holistic justice

Green sanctuary 2020 left/right
yang/yin
universal/unitarian (not fragmentarian) revolutions,
regeneration/degeneration options
every bicameral day
every binomial ego/eco-where
with every one
regathering bilateral interior-beliefs
compassioning exterior-behavior.

Regenerate hope is what happens
after listening to all the RealTalk
co-operating healthy passions
any way
any time
any where
everyday.

 

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