If the Tea Party and Occupy movements could come together it would be big trouble for the social viruses making America sick. Those who are harming American society don’t need to worry about me causing change. While my words may have some insight it will take at least 10 years for others to come...
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Last Day of 2010 RenChenZa Dog Days of Summer
The last day of RenChenZa® Dog Days of Summer has the most difficult exercise – to mindfully and to subconsciously use the 7 steps of insight in every aspect of our lives. Dog training is a good place to begin using the seven steps as a learning process, but the real benefit is applying...
Plan Your Pursuits – Plan Your Year
When starting a new pursuit it’s wise to begin with a plan. I believe this was the advice I received from my high school wood shop teacher. To build a new project in wood shop we needed a plan. Before starting a wood shop project we needed a blueprint of what we were going...
The Manufacturing Process And Dog Training
Each part of the manufacturing process needed to be planned. Mental rehearsal is another skill we can learn from dog training.
Friends and Relationships
The world is a tough place and it’s going to be mighty difficult to get through life all by oneself. Humans are social animals and are designed to survive best within a group. Perhaps we aren’t designed to work well in huge mega groups, but most people do like some company. It’s often group...
Know Thyself Through Self Examination
Throughout the ages wise people have taught individuals and society to know thyself. This sounds like simple advice. It seems that since individuals are the only ones who really know what they’re thinking they would have no problem knowing themselves. Yet individuals constantly misjudge themselves. I don’t think we are deliberately deceiving ourselves, but...
Love and Power – Hate and Acceptance
Many people have deep emotional reactions to power and even the word power. This is understandable. How power is used and our views about power influence much of our lives. Power is the realm of control, domination, and influence. How power is used is a life and death reality. However, people also live their...
Controlling Signals Dog Training and Human Learning
Controlling signals are the cues that prompt us to behave in certain ways. Controlling signals can also reward behavior. A traffic light is a controlling signal. The traffic light controls how we drive. When we respond appropriately we’re also rewarded. Traffic lights present an interesting example because sometimes stopping is aversive yet it’s also...
Positive Reinforcement the Dark Side of Dog Training
Humanity can learn much about the rules of natures from dog training. How to use incentives is one of the most obvious natural rules we can learn from dog training. Out of the different forms of incentive the rules of positive reinforcement are the most important to experiment with and master. Positive reinforcement is...
The Art of Living a Good Life
Self cultivation – education, training, and development of our emotional and cognitive abilities To live a good life includes what in Buddhism is called the eight fold path. The eight fold path consists of the right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. We need...