Welcome to the AWT1002-09 blog website. Each week, I will post a blog prompt during your MML period (Wednesdays in MML building 4), You must write a response to the prompt in the "Comments" section of the blog prompt. I expect you to use your MML period to write your blog post (although you may finish your blog post for homework). The intention of this blog site is to encourage creative writing and creative thinking. However, I still expect you to use academic writing in your post, such as correct capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary. Your blog post should be a paragraph (8-10 sentences) minimum length.
Blog prompt: Today is the International Day of Peace and NoVA: Non-Violence Awareness Day. When we think of peace, we think of the absence of violence. However, one type of violence that we often overlook is self-harm and self-violence. This includes all the negative, mean, and disparaging self-talk we declare about ourselves (I'm too fat; I'm too short; I'm not strength enough; I'm not good-looking enough; I'm not friendly enough, etc.). When we say negative and violent things about ourselves over and over again, we create internal violence. How we think of ourselves and treat ourselves is often related to the way we think about and treat other people. So, if we want peace in the world, we have to start having peace within our own minds and bodies.
I want you to think about one way that you are not at peace with yourself. Then, write a blog post (1 paragraph, 8-10 sentences) about this one way you are not at peace with yourself and a few ways or solutions that you can start today to begin being gentler, nicer, kinder, and more at peace with yourself. As M. Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Write your blog post about how you can start your inner peace revolution today!Your blog post is due today, Wednesday, Sept. 1st at midnight. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Today is the international day of stopping smoking. When we think about cigarettes, we think that we are condemned to it. In other words, cigarettes are the best way to die young. It has a lot of effects on the human body. Everybody includes that positive self-talk about cigarettes (when I will start smoking I will look classy, and old), it’s totally wrong. I am a smoker, in the first I had s the same ideas I will become old and I will become classy, but now I decided to quit smoking forever. In addition, we can stop smoking by practicing sports, participating in activities, and by smoking less cigarettes and reducing it each week. So, if we want to stay healthy, we have to stop smoking before it stops us.
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ReplyDeleteIn my current life, I am struggling with a big problem which is stress. Once I will take the initiative to talk about a topic in front of people or I am sitting for an exam I got confused and I lose all the words that I have in my brain. And once I finish my exam I just regret and start yell at myself because of my stupidity and the lack of focus. Even if I squandered an intensive effort for this exam, I just feel like I run out of confidence and hence I can’t start the process of thinking. Then I said this problem will really destroy my daily life and may wreck mental disorders. Therefore, I tried to come up with efficient solutions to deal with this trouble, and I thought that being baffled from nothing does not make sense. Moreover, I decided to gather with my friends and allocate a time where I can be the spotlight and start sharing everything I have in mind in order to avoid anxiety. Ultimately, it was a helpful method and by the time I began changing this terrible habit and having good credentials along with growing my confidence which let me lately more collective, clever and more comfortable while stepping up.
ReplyDeleteIt's so important for health to control stress. Try these, too: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5024/10-Simple-Tips-to-Reduce-Stress.html
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ReplyDeleteIn my mind it’s a total chaos, so being in peace with my self seems very difficult it’s not as easy as
ReplyDeletepeople might think. I’m always critisizing my self especially when it comes to my body this is
something that every girl does. I’m not as long as Kendal Jenner , I don’t have curves like Kim K or just
not as pretty as Xenia to get that boy or things like that and it goes on and on for most of us,
we’ve all had that little talk in our minds at least once. We all notice that people are getting more
and more analogous if we just take a look on girls on campus or in the street for example you will
definitely notice that they are almost dressed in the same way,even the makeup and haistyle and
girls whom don’t have the same ‘’style’’ think that they aren’t good or they feel that they don’t fit in
society and this is so bad and pathetic. Social media made that problem more serious everyone
trying to look like girls on Instagram :Big lips nude lipstick eyebrows on fleek and hilight on fleek too.
Some may think that this is not a big issue but it is serious girls tend to underestimate them self and
feel bad and less confident just because of their look so I think we should stop trying to fit in society
we should rather try to be original being ourselves and doing things we really like.
I do this yoga sequence when I feel body-conscious. It makes me feel awesome and powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-AJwAjoWR0
DeleteOh I'll definitely try this yoga sequence.By the wayI like Adriene's videos.Thank you Mrs Loren.
DeleteGetting peace with myself is not always easy things. But 2 years ago I tried to understand myself by consultancy with psychologist and neurologist to get more information about who really I am. However, the result was I introvert person and I had thinker in my neurology test. The psychologist and neurologist had not been told only about my personality, but another personality. Its make me more understand and more empathy about another personality. So, after that I realized that peace with myself is about accepting myself with all of my strength and weakness and focus on my development career or future. Sometime maybe I upset with my ability and my skill but I know as long as My Lord with me, every obstacle can be solved. For now, what I must to do is make a peace with my body because I live in different country with different weather, culture and especially different "food". Finally I just want to said that before you make a peace with people you must make a peace with yourself.
ReplyDeleteI think its very, very cool you saw professional to help you learn more about yourself. I'd like to see a neurologist, too!
DeleteSelf-violence can take a lot of forms. One day someone asked me “which state do you live in” and I answered: “constant anxiety”. That might sound crazy but that’s the thing I hate about myself: I’m too anxious. That’s why I always find myself telling to people the things I want to hear. When I’m trying to fix people I’m in fact trying to fix myself. I’m constantly wondering the worst scenarios and it tends to make me feel so sick and so insecure. I’m also too anxious to stand up for myself when people make fun of me, because I’m always thinking about the consequences. The fact that I’m that anxious makes me feel like I’m constantly missing something, that I can’t live just as everyone, and most of all that I allow people to treat me bad. Anxiety can be considered as a form of self-violence because it makes sick and it makes people always feeling bad about themselves. Sometimes, I tell myself that I’m the one that can control how people treat me by what I allow and what I reinforce, but then, I remember how anxious and insecure I am. However, this situation can change because a storm never lasts a lifetime, and I believe that I am the one who can change that situation, I think we have to stop feeling bad about ourselves, accept the situation we’re in and grow from it, this is so important and I wished someone would have told me that when I was younger. We have to learn from our bad days, we have to remember that if not for the darkness of the night, there would be no dawn, and most of all we should never feel anxious because what has to happen will happen and if something is destined to be ours, it will never take another road than ours.
ReplyDeleteI think anxiety can be self-violence, too. It's a real and serious condition. Next time you get anxious, try one of these solutions: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-cloud9/201308/5-quick-tips-reduce-stress-and-stop-anxiety
DeleteViolence against ourselves can take us higher or push us down. The violence I daily practice is the mental violence. When I am desperate, hopeless and forlorn most of the time it’s because I do violence myself. Especially when I don’t get what I want. I start blaming myself for not being good enough. Why others did it while I wasn’t able to succeed. Sometimes it can happen with domains that I don’t even like. As all young adults, especially nerd and hard workers, I do violence myself when I’m not the first in classes. I start seeing to myself: You are kind of stupid, idiot, and dump. Actually I think that it could help me to get better. But in fact it can lead me to depression. I just need to realize that all what count is to do the best we can. That one of feature of human being is making mistakes. Perfection doesn’t exist. So why be so hard against ourselves?
ReplyDeleteRepeat after me: You are enough. Now, say it in the mirror to yourself everyone morning for a month. Doing this changed my life. Maybe it can help you.
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ReplyDeleteI don’t like to talk about myself, so what will be said bellow isn’t probably true. I’m a very kind person. You will tell me that it’s a good thing, but the problem is that I’m too kind. It’s the type of kindness that makes me put others first every time no matter the situation. For example, if I have homework to do and someone asks me for help, I will automatically help them and postpone my work. Even though I feel good helping others, I know that I should take care more about myself. If I continue in this way some people may try abusing my kindness. I have to become more selfish in order to build a stronger personality; and that’s what I will work on in the future.
ReplyDeleteI understand not wanting to post personal things on a public blog. It's OK. Thanks for writing something, true or not.
DeleteI can undoubtedly state that i’m not the type of person who opens to others easily, but when I do I put my heart and soul into it. Some may think it’s a good thing, some may disprove it. I like being able to trust people fully and build a special relationship with them but then again I find myself falling in the vicious circle of blaming myself because of my ingenuousness. For instance, I had a friend she was a very good one, closer to a sister than to a friend therefore I trusted her with my whole personal life but one day she betrayed our friendship and I felt swallowed whole. Even though I like having friends to talk to and to trust, I know that true friends are rare these days, but i will work on building my walls higher in a reasonnable way in order to protect myself.
ReplyDeleteThe journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. You might want to check out these steps on how to build emotional boundaries before you start building walls:http://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-set-healthy-boundaries-3-crucial-first-steps/
DeleteYeah, social media causes so much stress. It's an incredible force, even if we can't feel it or touch it.
ReplyDeleteViolence against ourselves can take us higher or push us down.
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