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Research- 5 key insight enabling tools expressed in 2012 1.Follow your rhythm, 2.Nap if needed, 3.If overwhelmed by a problem take a breather and get back to it, 4. Ask for others opinions, 5.Approach tasks as if you are doing them to help someone else.

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/201212/5-big-discoveries-about-personal-effectiveness-in-2012
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Research- In psychological terms a projection is often when one person or group projects their own anxieties onto another person or group by making assumptions on the other persons or groups responses and reactions. In other words, blaming someone else for your own stuff

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/focus-forgiveness/201210/who-s-stranger-in-my-bed
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Community awareness - A Canadian ballarina's battle to express her art while maintaining a healthy weight

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http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2012/12/14/a-ballerinas-health-struggles
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Comedy- Who hasn't got a little bit of this pug in them in some way? No matter how hard you try you just can't get there but your ok with that, you do it because you love it.

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Research- The importance of physically discarding negative thoughts

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Positive thoughts transformed into a bed of flowers while negative thoughts are thrown away.  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/201212/writing-thoughts-down-can-help-quell-the-bad-keep-the-good
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Community awareness- Spirituality has nothing to do with organized religion and every thing to do with living your own truth while listening to, connecting and acting upon what is true.

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Community awareness- Creativity and mental illness are often paired together. Can we be creative without suffering?

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Community awareness- Terminally ill friends are the same person they were when they were your healthy friend. The difference is just that the human vessel that carries your friend on this earth is no longer able to keep going. I encourage you to please support your friend by calling them on the phone, visiting them, telling them your every day news just as you would if they were not ill. I can tell you first hand that you won't regret it. Dedicated to my friend Margaret RIP 10/7/10

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Art of Life With Mairead: Community awareness- Transpersonal Art Therapy is ...

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Art of Life With Mairead: Community awareness- Transpersonal Art Therapy is ... : Art of life with Mairead Transpersonal Art Therapist (Dip TPAT) ABN 80 647 483 237 artoflifewithmairead@gmail.com I am beginni...
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Research- Art therapy is a valuable counselling tool that may connect to the mind, body, spirit but clients may experience a reduction in pain, stress and anxiety purely by engaging in artistic processes.

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http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/does_art_heal
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Music- Black Bird, This song accompanied me and others through the streets of Melbourne on Good Friday to raise awareness of childhood sexual abuse.. Waiting for the moment to be free.

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http://www.wherevent.com/detail/mairead-ashcroft-impact-walk-with-mairead
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Art- Sand Dancer, Peter Donnelly " I love it when the sea kisses the art and reclaims the sand back to the sea."

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Research- How flight and fight serve us now that we are no longer hunter gatherers

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind/201212/survival-mode-and-evolutionary-mismatch
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Research: Mainstream Medical practitioners are beginning to incorporate Art Therapy into their practice and are witnessing wonderful results.

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-EntertainmentSectionPage-Wellness/Using-art-therapy-to-draw-out-cures/Article1-961118.aspx
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Music: Native American tranquil pipes with river and woods sounds

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Community awareness- seeing your obstacles as gifts that can take you to places that you might never have ventured.

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Community awareness: Coexist

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Community awareness: Schizophrenia A family share their normal lives while coping with schizophrenia.

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Research: The origines of pleasure

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" The mind has it'sown place and in it can make heaven of hell and hell of heaven." John Milton
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Research: Powerful connections are made with music therapy

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http://www.dementiatoday.com/efficacy-of-music-therapy-in-treatment-for-the-patients-with-alzheimers-disease/
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Art of Life With Mairead: Community awareness

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Art of Life With Mairead: Community awareness : Art of life with Mairead Transpersonal Art Therapist (Dip TPAT) ABN 80 647 483 237 artoflifewithmairead@gmail.com I am beginni...
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Comedy: Jimeoin, Love his quirky perspectives on every day events. Here is a 3 minute taste. Who am I kidding, I couldn't stop at one. Enjoy

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Music: Aker Bilk- Stranger on the shore

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Research: Scientific study of the effects of child maltreatment on the human brain

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Philosophy: What is abundance? How do we give ourselves permission to allow it to enter our lives?

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http://tarotshamanicjourney.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/the-nature-of-abundance/       
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Community awareness: I totally agree with the sentiment of this video. What is my reality? I am watching it on my computer, wearing head phones, with the light on, in my warm home. Do I want to abandon these things? No. Am I a hypocrite? Probably! Do I want to change this ?Yes! I have no easy answers. If you do please let the rest of us know.

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Entertainment: Improvisation performer Charlie Todd connects with people who in turn connect with others in absurd ways.

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Dance: Freda. The story of this inspirational artist re-introduced me to the power of art and to myself at a time when I believed that my life was not my own.

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Philosophy: Alice Hurz-Summer is 109 years old and offers valuable insights from her vast life experiences

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http://www.arttherapyblog.com/videos/alice-herz-sommer-dancing-under-the-gallows/#recent               “I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times – including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.”
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Entertainment: A baby laughing is music to the ears.

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Research: What do babies learn before they are born and how does it serve them in life?

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Research: What do Babies think??? Is there a baby theme going on today. Sure is !!!! I became a grandparent today

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Research: To live a balanced life we need to address our Locus of Control. Worthiness, respect and values firstly come from within in order for us to participate in life true our own beliefs

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http://www.theemotionmachine.com/realigning-your-locus-of-control
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Community awareness: The importance of allowing adopted, fostered, and ward of the state children own their pasts with hounour

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Community awareness: Warning, watching this video may make you shed a tear of joy

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Research: Staying in the moment, scientific date on experiencing happiness when we live in the moment v's mind wandering .

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Community awareness: Embrace creativity to find your own voice

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Community awareness: Often when we hear of eating disorders and trauma we will jump to images of anorexia and bulimia, both devastating , but we might label the obese child as lazy and be oblivious to the self medicating with food that they may be engaged in with the hopes of dealing with the memories and emotional wounds which are unhealed.

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Entertainment: Memoirs of a Geisha- Sayuri's dance and a series of paintings inspired after viewing the movie and Japanese tapestry.

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Philosophy: A most poignant dialogue about acknowledging Trauma in order to be released from it

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Community awareness: There is no movement without rythm. This village holds true to their customs and values by teaching the youger community members about the importance of the rythm of their lives

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Research: Chronic PTSD ( post traumatic stress disorder) results from being exposed to ongoing trauma/abuse where a person may feel that their life is threatened.

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Music: Otis Redding, Ode to my husbands care free summer days of his youth

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Research: Liz Mullinar - Treating the core problem of childhood trauma.Always a difficult topic because it effects nearly all of us

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Community awareness:"Thinking about death can clarify our life." Cindy Chang. An inspirational kick up the bum that we all need from time to time.

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Music: Whether you believe in a god, the universe or a sacred being within your self, I encourage you to take 8 minutes to embrace and experience your ethereal power.

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Art: Me at the age of 2

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Philosophy: "Vulnerability is not a weekness. It is our most accurate measurement of courage. It is the birth place of inovation, creativity and change." Brene Brown

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Entertainment: I personally find street artists the creators of beauty where there was otherwise a void. But when does street art cross the line and become vandalism? Are the lines a blur for you or is it more black and white? Should we accept someones markings as a sign of their individuality or are they disrespecting private property? Would you accept it on a disused building but not in your own home?

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Research: Jill Bolt, brain scientist, talks of her personal enlightening experience of the disconnection of the left and right hemispheres of her brain as she suffered a stroke.

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Research: Who is the entity that catagorises all into Normal or ab-normal? What a boring world it would be if we were all the same

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Quote: Pablo Picasso

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Research: This short film powerfully demonstrates the validity of Art Therapy as an empowering tool that gives a voice to the voiceless.

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Entertainment: Yoga is a fantastic form of exercise and if you can master the mindfulness aspect you can enter a wonderful state of consciousness. But for some of us yoga goes something like this. Lol!

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Personal Interest: Today I spoke in the Victorian Parliament about the sexual abuse that I suffered at the hands of a Catholic clergy member 1972-75 and the lack of support and cover-ups within the institution. My husband gave me this dvd as a gift. He believes that I am a Brave Warrior Princess. Thanks John

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Art: This art piece reflects the many aspects of myself and my place in them

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Entertainment: Incredible new perspectives if every day events are created with slow motion filming. Fascinating!

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Art: Millions of grains of sand are delicately dispersed by Tibetan Monks while in a state of complete mindfulness. Some of these ceremonies last for days at a time with constant chanting and creation.

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Community awareness :This a daggy but informative interview with Martin Peak the Director of Phoenix Institute where I gained my Qualification as Transpersonal Art Therapist. It gives a great over view of what can be expected from me as a therapist

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Research: Music awakens remembered feelings from the past, positive and negative. When used as part of Art Therapy a persons spirit that might appear to be lost to Alzheimer can spontaneously awaken for a period bringing with it all of the joy and elation previously experienced.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121112/PRIME03/311120002/1012/FEATURES/Music-therapy-reaches-elderly
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Music: This is one of the songs that I chose to accompany me through the streets of Melbourne from Federation Square to St Patrick's Cathedrial to raise Awareness of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Good Friday 2012 .

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Art: When I first saw this artist perform I was enthralled and I am still in awe.

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Community awareness: Many of us enter relationships that are toxic. How do we truly want to participate in our friendships

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http://arttherapyreflections.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/art-therapy-and-unhealthy-friendships.html
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Art Therapy offers the oppertunity of giveing a voice to the voiceless

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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20121104-art-therapy-helps-abused-children-find-their-voice.ece
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Community awareness: Amazing people inhabit this earth

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Sheila Humphries http://www.arttherapyblog.com/news-and-events/indigenous-women-receive-support-for-art-therapy-program/#.UKy1GuSTwz5
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Personal interest: I will begin to practice Transpersonal Art Therapy from Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre in January. It is a beautiful space

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http://www.louisjlcc.com.au/
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Community awareness: Taking that first step, that's how you begin to get things done

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-antidote/201211/cranky-pessimists-guide-getting-things-done
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Art: Self Portrait: Some days are just like this

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Research: As someone who has suffered chronic pain of Fibromyalgia for 17 years now, art has helped to lessen my perception of pain

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http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/10/how-getting-creative-heals-pain-an-interview-with-deb-eiseman/
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Quote: Albert Einstein

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