Comments on: Escape Velocity – Orbit! http://valerieroney.ca/escape-velocity-orbit interactive poetry, pop-culture philosophizing, and loving self-mockery Mon, 21 May 2012 02:33:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Valerie http://valerieroney.ca/escape-velocity-orbit/comment-page-1#comment-147 Valerie Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:04:06 +0000 http://valerieroney.ca/?p=450#comment-147 hmmm...tummy time. Doesn't sound like a good deal to me - as compared to lying on your back, watching the world go by, free to wave your arms and kick your legs, getting carried around, that's the sweet life. Tummy time would involve a face full of floor, efforts to move your arms and legs would run into resistance instead of open air. Limiting and uncomfortable - except that it forces you to learn how to lift up your own head so you can look around, and the floor gives you something to push up against, building strength and finding out what those arms and legs are really for. I should probably thank my Mom for "tummy time" (and probably life in general) for the difficult and uncomfortable that teaches me my own strength and shows me what I can really do. Interesting idea: to say "thank you" instead of "aw, man!" when I hit the floor. Thanks for the perspective Donna. hmmm…tummy time.

Doesn’t sound like a good deal to me – as compared to lying on your back, watching the world go by, free to wave your arms and kick your legs, getting carried around, that’s the sweet life. Tummy time would involve a face full of floor, efforts to move your arms and legs would run into resistance instead of open air. Limiting and uncomfortable – except that it forces you to learn how to lift up your own head so you can look around, and the floor gives you something to push up against, building strength and finding out what those arms and legs are really for.

I should probably thank my Mom for “tummy time” (and probably life in general) for the difficult and uncomfortable that teaches me my own strength and shows me what I can really do.

Interesting idea: to say “thank you” instead of “aw, man!” when I hit the floor. Thanks for the perspective Donna.

]]> By: Donna http://valerieroney.ca/escape-velocity-orbit/comment-page-1#comment-145 Donna Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:35:11 +0000 http://valerieroney.ca/?p=450#comment-145 Yes, Fear is that double edged sword that can both paralyze into inaction or motivate into action. Sometimes the fear makes us overanalyze the situation, that's the paralyzing part. Sometimes fear creates enough of a reaction to make us jump into a decision. Most of us have that cartoon like figure sitting on our shoulder telling us things that are similar to to the things Valerie has debunked. (Yay for a little debunking to clear the air.) A friend once told me a story that was shared to her about that shoulder sitting character. It's like a hungry beast sitting up there. It calls out things like, "What the hell do you think you are doing?", "You're not good enough to even think of doing that?", "Why bother, you are going to fail anyways.", just to get your attention. If you believe what the avaricious creature is saying to you, it's like feeding it and it grows, until it is so huge that you can't even move. If you can ignore the catcalls then it starves and sometimes it will shrink to nothing at all. Actually, now that I think about it, Fear might be it's cousin sitting on the other shoulder. Recently, I've had occasion to learn about and observe the importance of tummy time for babies. It's a secure place and position for them to explore and learn. They are free to use all their senses and all their body parts. In fact that's how they learn that they have body parts. It is also a crucial position for them to gain strength to eventually flip over, crawl and walk. All for the simple reason, to once again, explore and learn. Maybe, that's what I need more of - tummy time, a secure position from which to explore and learn with all my senses. Yes, Fear is that double edged sword that can both paralyze into inaction or motivate into action. Sometimes the fear makes us overanalyze the situation, that’s the paralyzing part. Sometimes fear creates enough of a reaction to make us jump into a decision.
Most of us have that cartoon like figure sitting on our shoulder telling us things that are similar to to the things Valerie has debunked. (Yay for a little debunking to clear the air.) A friend once told me a story that was shared to her about that shoulder sitting character. It’s like a hungry beast sitting up there. It calls out things like, “What the hell do you think you are doing?”, “You’re not good enough to even think of doing that?”, “Why bother, you are going to fail anyways.”, just to get your attention. If you believe what the avaricious creature is saying to you, it’s like feeding it and it grows, until it is so huge that you can’t even move. If you can ignore the catcalls then it starves and sometimes it will shrink to nothing at all. Actually, now that I think about it, Fear might be it’s cousin sitting on the other shoulder.
Recently, I’ve had occasion to learn about and observe the importance of tummy time for babies. It’s a secure place and position for them to explore and learn. They are free to use all their senses and all their body parts. In fact that’s how they learn that they have body parts. It is also a crucial position for them to gain strength to eventually flip over, crawl and walk. All for the simple reason, to once again, explore and learn.
Maybe, that’s what I need more of – tummy time, a secure position from which to explore and learn with all my senses.

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