#even though difficulty and technique have been improving and getting harder

[motsimages]

Reblogging this because the general discourse around sports and exercise is either you go to the gym and lift weight or it doesn't count as sport/exercise.

So first you have the confluence of meaning between sport and exercise and physical activity. Then you have the elimination of what "sport" means in favour of it all being "exercise". And finally "exercise" is just bodybuilding and getting thin (often symultaneously, go figure).

Moving a litle bit every day in things like going for a walk, dancing in the living room, doing light stretches, or even just running errands is physical activity. And you don't need much more. But if you do need some more, or you want to start training strength or agility, then specific exercises like the ones in this video are more than enough. And then, if all of this is boring to you but maybe doing fun things with other people or on your own that don't feel like repeating over and over the same thing would help you, that's where sports come in. Badminton, boules, nordic walking... There are a thousand and not all of them are football or require a competition level of practice.

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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[needsleepdc]

What Causes Insomnia in Women? Symptoms & Treatments You Need to Know

Have you ever stared at the ceiling at 2 a.m., wondering why can’t I sleep—even though I’m exhausted? You’re not alone. Insomnia affects women nearly twice as often as men, and the reasons behind this aren’t just about stress or screen time.

In this article, we’ll dive into what causes insomnia in women, the most common symptoms, and the treatments that actually work. Whether you’ve struggled for weeks or years, understanding the unique factors that impact women’s sleep may be the key to finally getting the rest you need.

🧠 What Exactly Is Insomnia?

Insomnia is more than just having trouble falling asleep. It can also mean:

Waking up frequently during the night

Struggling to fall back asleep

Waking up too early

Feeling unrefreshed in the morning despite enough time in bed

For women, these issues can come and go—or last for months, even years. But why does insomnia hit women harder?

💡 The Surprising Causes of Insomnia in Women

Here’s what many people don’t realize: insomnia in women is often tied to hormones, life stages, and social stressors that men don’t typically face.

1. Hormonal Changes

Hormonal fluctuations throughout a woman’s life can significantly disrupt sleep.

Menstrual cycle: Estrogen and progesterone shifts can make sleep difficult, especially in the days before your period.

Pregnancy: Physical discomfort, hormonal changes, and anxiety can lead to poor sleep—especially in the third trimester.

Menopause: Hot flashes, night sweats, and hormonal dips are top culprits of chronic insomnia in midlife women.

🔍 Curiosity Trigger: Did you know that many women start experiencing sleep disturbances in perimenopause, even before hot flashes begin?

2. Mental Health Conditions

Women are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, both of which are closely linked to insomnia. Racing thoughts, nighttime worry, and early morning awakenings are common symptoms.

3. Life Stress and Caregiving

From raising kids to managing households to supporting aging parents, many women carry a heavy emotional and mental load. That constant mental “to-do” list can be a major barrier to sleep.

4. Biological Sleep Differences

Women often have a slightly shorter circadian rhythm, meaning their natural “sleep window” comes earlier. Staying up late can clash with this internal clock, leading to difficulty falling asleep and waking too early.

🛏️ Symptoms of Insomnia in Women

Common insomnia symptoms include:

Difficulty falling or staying asleep

Restless or shallow sleep

Feeling fatigued or moody during the day

Trouble concentrating or remembering things

Waking up too early

Insomnia can affect both physical and emotional health, increasing the risk for heart disease, mood disorders, and poor immune function.

✅ Treatment Options That Actually Work

Good news: insomnia is treatable—even if it’s been around for a while.

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

This is considered the gold standard for treating chronic insomnia. It helps reframe negative sleep thoughts and improve sleep habits.

2. Lifestyle Changes

Create a calming bedtime routine

Limit caffeine and alcohol

Avoid screens 1–2 hours before bed

Try sleep-promoting supplements like magnesium or melatonin (with doctor guidance)

3. Mind-Body Techniques

4-7-8 breathing

Meditation or progressive muscle relaxation

Yoga and light stretching before bed

4. Medication (If Needed)

Short-term sleep aids may help during intense phases of insomnia, but should always be used under a healthcare provider’s supervision.

🌙 Final Thoughts

Insomnia in women isn’t just a sleep problem—it’s a complex health issue affected by hormones, emotions, and environment. If you're tired of being tired, you’re not being dramatic—and you're not alone.

Understanding what causes insomnia in women is the first step to healing. With the right approach, better sleep is within reach.

#InsomniaInWomen #WomensHealth #WhyCantISleep #SleepTreatment #HormonesAndSleep #CBTforInsomnia #InsomniaSymptoms #BetterSleepTips #SleepStruggles

[ven8s]

astro ☆ observations I

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★ mariah carey's mercury is in pisces (detriment) which explains her fragile voice (nodules since she was very young, rapid vocal decline etc).

★ same with christina aguilera's mercury in sagittarius (detriment) and her singing with poor technique leading to a rapid vocal decline.

★ the houses are opposite each other for a reason: you need to find balance between the two houses. to achieve inner peace and a sound inner being (12H), you need to work on self improvement and provide service to others (6H). to find your true values and inner worth (2H), you need to heal and regenerate (8H).

★ the neptune in aquarius that my generation was born under has led us to be delusional about certain forms of "activism" (cancel culture) and has led to a LOT of performative activism seeing as neptune rules performers and aquarius rules progressive thinking and activism.

★ a lot of pioneering singers / artists are aries suns (sun rules natural talents) makes perfect sense! more proof that astrology never fails us.

aretha franklin - influenced the way people sing majorly, blended gospel with jazz, blues and r&b, used music as activism, known as the queen of soul, birthed generations of singers after her

diana ross - lead singer of the most successful motown group, the supremes, inducted in the Guinness Book of World Record as "the most successful female music artist in history", has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

selena quintanilla - broke down barriers for female singers in tejano music, known as queen of tejano music, one of the greatest performers of all time, opened doors for other latin musicians such as jennifer lopez and shakira.

lady gaga - broke down barriers for women in music and revolutionised pop music and popularised synthpop, used controversy to bring attention to issues, influenced her peers and later artists

elton john - revoluntionised rock + pop , lgbtq+ icon, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Songwriters Hall of Fame + appointed a CBE + has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

marvin gaye - inspired the use of black music to discuss personal and sexual politics in the 1970s til this day, influenced soul & r&b music greatly, combined gospel, soul, pop and jazz, one of the first motown artists to break free from the production system which paved the way for stevie wonder

mariah carey - introduced melismatic singing to the mainstream + introduced pop & rap collabs, blended r&b, pop and hip hop together, one of the greatest vocalists of all time, influenced a generation of singers, was the Artist of the Decade in the 90s, is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

★ oppositions can be much harder to deal with than squares since squares need motivation and drive (even though it comes with work and difficulty), whereas oppositions require a balance (comes with a lot of pulling and instability)

★ neptune aspecting beneficial planets can trick you into believing the aspect is good until the damage is done (venus - neptune could see their s/o as a fantasy even if the relationship is very toxic)

★ neptune in 4th doesn't always mean you have a distant mother. it can also mean you have are distant from your family / ancestry. there can also be a long lost family member or a family secret.

★ check to see if asteriod medusa (149) aspects your sun because it can dramtically change the way your sun is expressed (in my personal experience)

★ not enough people talk about "mundane" houses like the 6H even though it is one of the most important since it represents daily life

★ the possession and intensity a lot of you associate with scorpio is really taurus and a lot of the stubbornness associated with taurus is really aquarius

★ stop associating zodiac signs with mental illnesses!! why does gemini = mania? why does aquarius = god complex?

★ jupiter - neptune (natal and transits) can be very very harmful. along with the expansion of fantasy + arts (can be good), you also get the excessive (jupiter) disillusionment and not being able to see things as they are (neptune).

★ back to singers with neptune ruled mercuries (pisces / 12H) or aspecting neptune, people can view their voice as perfect and can find it hard to point out the flaws in it (especially the fanbases)

— ven8s

[rigelmejo]

june listening reading notes

i’ve said this before lol but it still floors me how Helpful it was: if you want to ‘pre-study’ or prepare for reading a specific novel for pleasure, as in making its reading level ‘more approachable’ for you, i think listening reading method really helps.

yeah, listening reading method’s main goal is for listening comprehension improvement (and it does work especially the more you do step 2/step 3). 

it just also helped ‘boost my reading level’ for a specific author’s vocabulary a lot. i’ve tried L-R Method a few ways with Guardian by Priest. I’ve tried pre-reading where I look up every unknown word and read before I do step 2 or 3 (chinese audio-chinese text, chinese audio-english text). I’ve tried just diving into step 2 or step 3, doing step 2/3 in random orders, and right now i just do step 2. In particular, right now i do step 2 where i listen to the chinese audio-read chinese text and just click a few unknown words that seem important.

 Sometimes I do step 2 again, sometimes i read a section of the chapter before or after step 2, sometimes i listen to the audiobook on its own after step 2. The main thing is though - I’m getting repeated exposure to any new words, and if they bother me that I still can’t follow them roughly then I look them up. As a result, each time i see them I’m more likely to know them. And each chapter i do, i’m more familiar with priest’s particular vocabulary.

Now that I’ve done chapters 1-8 a few times each (some step 2, some step 3, some audiobook only listening) I recognize enough vocabulary that when I just read silently (regular reading) I notice SO much nuance I missed the first time i read (even if the first time I read I was doing intensive word lookup of every unknown word). Just being more familiar with the vocabulary, i’m noticing words/sayings that were too hard to catch the first time, understanding longer descriptive paragraphs as a whole comprehensive image instead of single phrases, and i am just kind of floored by how many details i missed the first time that i’m catching now. in addition, i’m also doing way better reading old sections (and brand new ones) without a dictionary. 

when i started L-R method with Guardian, Guardian was significantly above my reading level - enough to take forever to read and feel difficult with a dictionary (but doable). Now it feels doable without a dictionary, reasonably easy with a dictionary. Basically the reading difficulty is lower now. 

It seems like an obvious benefit - do stuff a few times, repeatedly expose yourself to unknown words (like review) and you’ll learn more lol. I just wanna mention it again because its not supposed to be a main benefit of L-R Method. But I’m definitely noticing its a result. 

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Also, again, I’ve been experimenting and once my reading difficulty hit a certain level of ‘ease’ for Guardian, just doing Step 2 alone became more useful. Because there were few enough unknown words that I could do step 2 once and click key-unknown words for definitions as i listened, then do step 2 again if i wanted (or just read) and click any detail words i might still be confused on. And then listening to the audiobook-only is my chance to practice the listening comprehension skill (whereas step 3 of L-R method combines that with word-lookup with the english transcript - but i find step 3 more mentally draining than doing step 2 then just listening to audio alone at least rn). Maybe I’m just trying to see how ‘lazy’ i can do L-R Method and still get it to do something useful. (I mean at this point step 2 and audio is just regular listening to an audiobook while reading or without reading lol, not L-R method specifically). 

Also, again, the way I did step 2 and step 3 of L-R method with Pleco is really compatible with about anything you want to read. For me: I usually go to ximalaya or youtube or 123music (right now SPL, MoDu, 2ha are all audiobooks on youtube), and use that audio for step 2. I listen to that audio while reading the chinese text in pleco and clicking any key unknown words. Then for step 3 I click “dictate” in Pleco and try to listen to the words as I see the english definitions pop up. Doing step 3 this way means the translation is word-by-word, which is sometimes easier, and you don’t need to find a translation or make sure the translation includes the same sentences. The downside using pleco for step 3 of course is if there’s a nice translation you can’t use it (like for MoDu I still want to read the edanglars translation because its so good, same with 2ha and SPL), or you can just use it instead of Pleco. Also the voice for step 3 is not a natural speaker. Upside of using pleco for this is translation matches perfectly, audio can be paused and replayed for step 3, for shadowing, and your audio is always lined up perfectly with text. (I suppose step 1 could always use the literary translation if you like it - which is what I’ve been doing, but its harder for me to use the literary translation for step 3 because i often get the audio out of sync with the text and get lost :/ ). Also an upside - you don’t technically need a translation or an audiobook - just any chinese text you like. 

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Some notes to myself:

L-R Method mentioned doing step 2 and 3, up to 3 times. Especially step 3. 

I definitely see the reason for that now. A few months ago I watched a korean learner youtuber who really believed in ‘re-listening’ to material 20+ times. A LOT more than I ever listen to stuff lol. But I do notice the more I listen to Guardian chapters, the more I comprehend - ESPECIALLY when I do L-R Method first since I have on some level ‘studied’ all the words I’m listening to beforehand so overall its ‘comprehensible input’ I just have to keep listening long enough to comprehend more and more. (Also to some extent this happens when re-listening to audio of chinese shows I’ve seen before with eng subs or chinese subs like Guardian and Word of Honor). 

Since L-R Method includes reading in step 2, I’ve realized the more I do step 2 the more words I recognize/sentences I more fully comprehend, etc. If I do step 2 twice then the second time I notice more nuance and figure out more words particular nuances (just from prior context helping me grasp the material better). If I do step 2 twice and have read the chapter 1-3 times, again the more I’ve read or step 2-done the chapter, the more words/sentence I understand clearly. I definitely think re-doing a chapter over and over until you understand it as much as you can has benefit - or redoing a book over and over during a few weeks (how the L-R Method maker did it). I both do L-R method too slow, and get too bored, to do something like that reliably. But its pretty easy to do step 2 or 3 again for a chapter i liked or wanted to understand better. Or to listen to the audiobook in the background a few times after doing step 2 or 3, as I do other things during the day. And I think the repeated exposure to the ‘newly figured out words’ helps them get clearer and clearer, and easier to remember. 

Even the new method I saw recently, the Re-Reading Technique, is basically several steps of re-listening and rereading the same material to comprehend it/engage with it more each time. 

[grailfinders]

Fate and Phantasms #39: Sasaki Kojirou

Today on Fate and Phantasms, we’re building the savior of France himself, Sasaki Kojirou. He may be an assassin, but Sasaki prefers honorable duels, so this build is mostly fighter with a dash of rogue for flavor. His impeccable swordplay makes him a terror in close-range combat.

As always, a spreadsheet for this build can be found here, or you can read the level-by-level breakdown below the cut!

Race and Background

Like many servants, Sasaki Kojirou is a Human, giving him +1 to all stats. In Fate, the man who would become Kojirou very explicitly came from nothing and did not gain fame in his life, but the historical Kojirou founded the Ganryuu school of sword fighting. This would put his background closest to the Mercenary Veteran, with an altered feat regarding knowledge of other sword fighting schools rather than mercenary companies. This gives Sasaki proficiency in Athletics and Persuasion.

Stats

Sasaki’s swordplay is absolute, so he needs his Dexterity as high as possible. He also has a keen eye for detail, so his Wisdom is next. After that is Strength, his power comes from technique, but he can still have conventional power too. Following that is his Constitution, he can camp out in front of a temple for ages so he’s got to be a little tough. He’s a pretty easygoing person, letting others dominate the conversation, so his Charisma is a little low. We’re dumping Intelligence, though. The man who became Sasaki never got an education, and all his focus went into mastering an impossible skill, which for anyone else would have been a terrible life choice.

Levels

1. Rogue 1: We’re starting off the build as a rogue, because they have more skills and saves that we want. Speaking of, you’re proficient in Dexterity and Intelligence saves as well as Acrobatics, Perception, Insight, and Stealth when you start level one. You also have Expertise in two skills, doubling your proficiency bonus in Stealth and Perception. You learn to Sneak Attack, dealing extra damage to creatures you have advantage against or who’re dealing with other people, and Thieves’ Cant, a language that thieves know.

2. Rogue 2: Second level rogues become more nimble with a Cunning Action, letting you use your bonus action to Dash, Disengage, or Hide. This is probably why you can walk away from Saber without causing an attack of opportunity, then immediately jump back into the action when Archer tries to ruin things.

3. Rogue 3: At third level you get your subclass, the Assassin. I know, the assassin class, full of assassins? Wild. When you take the subclass, you get proficiency with the Disguise Kit and Poisoner’s Kit, two things you aren’t going to use, because you like a fair fight. You also learn how to Assassinate, giving you advantage against creatures who haven’t taken a turn yet, and any hit you score on surprised creatures are auto-crits. Even in a duel, killing someone before they can even draw their sword is a pretty good idea.

4. Fighter 1: Speaking of fair fights, let’s make sure you can survive one. First level fighters get a Fighting Style, and we’re dipping into Tasha’s Cauldron to grab Blind Fighting, giving you 10 feet of blindsight. This lets you fight dramatically in the moonlight without being so gauche as to have Darkvision. Fighting someone else without darkvision will also give you straight up advantage, so dramatic moonlight duels are a great thing to invest in. You also gain a Second Wind, a bonus action you can use once per short rest to heal yourself. Finally, fighters can use any weapon they like, so you can pick up the closest thing to a katana that still has finesse, a scimitar.

5. Fighter 2: You gain one use of Action Surge per short rest, giving you an additional action in a single turn. You don’t get another sneak attack, but more chances to use it is never a bad deal.

6. Fighter 3: At third level you become a Samurai, gaining proficiency in History thanks to the grail helping you out. You also have a Fighting Spirit, a bonus action that you can use three times per day, giving you advantage on all attacks that turn and 5 temporary hit points.

7. Fighter 4: With your first ASI you become Mobile, adding 10′ to your movement speed, letting you dash through difficult terrain, and making it harder for enemies you hit to hit back when you run away.

8. Fighter 5: You get an extra attack, so now you can attack twice per turn, or four times with your action surge.

9. Fighter 6: The Alert feat makes you really good at guarding places, and also really good in general, adding a flat 5 to your initiative rolls, preventing you from ever being surprised, and preventing creatures from having advantage on you because you can’t see them. This means if you’re fighting where people have difficulty seeing -the dark of night, a chaotic battlefield, a smoke-filled burning building- you’ll have advantage on your attacks and they’ll have disadvantage. It’s not unfair if you’re just that good.

10. Fighter 7: Seventh level samurai become Elegant Courtiers. This lets you add your wisdom modifier to persuasion checks, and you become proficient in Wisdom saves. You’re a pretty calm guy, and you managed to talk your way out of getting murdered by the seven heroic swordsmen multiple times.

11. Fighter 8: It’s time we started using these Ability Score Improvements for ability scores. Use this one on your Dexterity for more and harder hits.

12. Fighter 9: You become Indomitable, letting you reroll failed saves once per long rest.

13. Fighter 10: You have a Tireless Spirit, so if you start combat with zero fighting spirits remaining, you get one more. Also, your fighting spirit improves at this level, and now gives you 10 temporary hit points.

14. Fighter 11: Your Swallow Reversal gains its third sword with another Extra Attack. Now you can hit people six times per turn if you really want to.

15. Rogue 4: Use your next ASI to round out your Wisdom and Constitution. More wisdom means better saves against illusions and mind control, and more constitution means you’ll survive long enough to enjoy that.

16. Rogue 5: You can now react to make an Uncanny Dodge, halving the damage of an attack that hits you. We’re not sticking around as a rogue long enough for proper evasion, so this and Mobile are the best you’re getting.

17. Fighter 12: Your next ASI maxes out your Dexterity for better hits and better not-getting-hits.

18. Fighter 13: You gain a second use of Indomitable per long rest, because being that cool once per day isn’t enough for you.

19. Fighter 14: Use your last ASI for more Wisdom, because you’ve got to be really in tune with yourself to do the impossible.

20. Fighter 15: With your capstone level, your Fighting Spirit improves once again, now adding 15 temporary hit points to your pool. You also learn how to Rapid Strike, allowing you to split an attack you have advantage on into two attacks once per turn. You should have advantage on almost every attack you make by this point, and even if you don’t, you can just give yourself advantage anyway. The extra attack will also probably have advantage.

Pros: This build is dead simple to fight with: slice the other person until they stop moving. You’re fast enough to close the gap quickly, are hard to hit thanks to your high dex and mobility, and you abuse advantage rules to their absolute limit. If you don’t mind bending your character a bit, ask that nice ninja kid to lend you some of his smoke bombs (or an eversmoking bottle) and become a god on the battlefield. 

Cons: This build, like Sasaki himself, only focuses on swordplay. Anything that can fly (ironically) or resists nonmagical damage is going to give you a hard time. Also, using the build to its fullest extent with items like the eversmoking bottle or spells like darkness and fog cloud means there’s going to be a radius around you at all times that the rest of the party can’t function in, which might cause some hurt feelings.

But you’re not here for their feelings, you’re here to use a sword really, really well. Just go out there and be the best you you can b-

Sorry.

Next up: The true Assassin.

[ceescedasticity]

more director’s commentary: Escher Ch. 9

paragrin said: Director’s commentary on the Asherah fight and/or subsequent discussion/awakening?

Let’s see...

I do not like writing fight scenes. Fight scenes are HARD. My biggest concern in this one was having them lose believably.

Her mother's Shadow wasted no time, but immediately blurred and distorted and dammit, they'd never been ambushed by a Palace ruler before—

"Get ready to defend!" Yusuke yelled to Hifumi. Dammit, she should have had him take the Snuff Soul after all—

"The floor!" Hifumi yelped.

Asherah is, per Wikipedia, strongly associated with trees in the Bible. That’s the main inspiration for the Shadow’s form. I can’t remember how I came up with the rootlets on the floor, but I may have wanted a reason to have everyone playing ‘the floor is lava’ BESIDES all the little jars of Greek fire.

From the safety of Prometheus, Futaba looked down. There were — tendrils, spreading across the floor, twining around the clutter. She didn't want to follow them back, but did anyway, to see them thicken and join into — roots.

"You shouldn't be here!"

Her mother's Shadow was a tree.

Or. An Ent. Except the Ents in the movies only acted like they had two arms and decorative branches, as opposed to all the branches acting like arms, which really made more sense even though it was harder to fight, and really most of the Shadows they'd fought had been more grotesque, this was nothing really—

Asherah, Prometheus informed her. Strengths and weaknesses currently unknown.

It still had her mother's face.

I think the body horror is getting to Futaba just a bit. She wouldn’t care, if it wasn’t her mother.

Below, both Yusuke and Hifumi had managed to get clear of the roots — Yusuke was standing on a plinth, Hifumi balancing on a stone lion-dog. Yusuke was adjusting one of his boots. The rootlets were waving up at them from the floor, but not achieving any elevation gains.

One thing I enjoyed writing was specifying what features of the ridiculously cluttered and clashingly-furnished room they were standing on while playing ‘the floor is rootlets’.

One of the higher branches trembled, then lowered, and shook, and then Yusuke and Hifumi were being hit with a volley of acorns that did gun damage. Not too bad, but… not negligible, either.

"No info on weaknesses yet, guys," she said anxiously. "Just… be careful?" She really didn't need to worry, it wasn't like anything they'd done to the Palace-ruling Shadows in monster form had hurt the people—

How DOES that work, anyway?

"Fox, try ice," Hifumi said. "I'm going to stick to my bow for now… getting in close enough for melee doesn't seem practical."

Futaba assessed the results. "Resists ranged weapons, but it's not doing nothing… ice is connecting, but it's not a weakness." She'd thought ice might do more damage to a tree… but the weakness was probably fire. Not that that did them any good. Damn it, and Mona had mentioned something about tools that did elemental damage, but Futaba didn't know anything more about them because Akira had never used any when she was around because he could just use whichever Persona was needed…

Damn Wild Cards...

A different branch reached down, and out, and hit Yusuke with a melee attack which he managed to counter. The branch recoiled.

"How did you get all the way up here?" Asherah demanded.

"We climbed a lot of ladders," Hifumi said, and tried wind.

What kind of a stupid question is that, there are ladders everywhere. How did you get IN, that’s a better question.

"Same as ice, neither a strength nor a weakness," Futaba reported.

Yusuke did more damage with a stronger spell. "I need the Snuff Soul to keep this up."

"Use it," Hifumi said. "I'd suggest running, but the exit…"

The exit was covered with a network of rootlets. Damn it.

Had to keep them from running away since they hadn’t technically calling-carded so the ‘one chance’ thing PROBABLY isn’t a issue. Not that they’re trying to steal the Treasure...

"Who sent—" Asherah broke off. "Children. You're children!"

"I'm not a child," Hifumi said indignantly.

(Kiddo, you’re in middle school.)

Researchers at the lab have had ‘teenagers get Personas easier’ for a while now, and they’re coming up with ideas to exploit it, and Wakaba has been doing everything she can to shut it down/head it off. The Metaverse isn’t safe, and she wouldn’t trust the people who’ve slithered onto the project with supervising children taste-testing cookies. Actual Wakaba doesn’t think that the conspiracy already has teenage Metaverse operatives, the Shadow just jumped to that conclusion immediately. Because it does want them!

"How dare they," Asherah said. Yet another branch came down, this one covered in flowers. "This isn't right."

If that wasn't a status effect in the making, Futaba didn't know what was. "Guys—"

The branch showered Yusuke in flowers, and— Sleep.

Of course he immediately toppled off the plinth onto a delicate sandalwood chest and crashed through to the floor, and that woke him right up. Not in time to completely avoid the rootlets, though.

I learned after writing that apparently Sleep works differently on different difficulty levels? ‘Normal’ is probably closest to canonical...

Hifumi managed to evade another cloud of flowers by jumping from the lion-dog to a stack of books to a creepily smiling statue. "Oracle? What's this now?"

"Sleep," Futaba said. "There's armor to resist sleep, but we don't have it, because no one uses sleep, because you wake up the first time you get hit!" Or it could be fought with some kind of medicine they didn't have, or a healing technique which Futaba might be able to get ready at the right moment— "Fox isn't hurt — more — he's just… a little tied up."

"Was that supposed to be funny." Yusuke was half-standing, leaning on the plinth, using his sword to cut himself loose from the rootlets twined around his boots, up nearly to his knees. "I don't think it was funny." The sword was obviously not the best tool for the job. Hifumi's naginata would be worse yet — hopefully she could continue avoiding getting caught…

It was kinda funny.

"As soon as you're loose, Fox, agility buffs," Futaba said.

Hifumi got off another volley of arrows before she had to run from the flowers again — statue to reliquary to another lion-dog to Yusuke's plinth, to give him a hand up. "I'm not sure he shouldn't save his magic for the ice attacks, they're the only thing doing any meaningful damage!"

"Yes, but he's going to need agility to jump around avoiding the sleep attacks so he can use the ice attacks!"

Hifumi is the combat strategist, Futaba is the Metaverse-experienced person and does more logistics, and Yusuke mostly does what they tell him.

"I'm right here," Yusuke said mildly. He went with the agility buffs, and just in time — more flowers, and they had to run in opposite directions.

"Stop fighting — I don't wish to hurt you!"

"Sorry, Mom's Shadow," Futaba muttered, "not gonna take your word for that."

It genuinely does not want to hurt them, but honestly I wouldn’t trust it not to hurt them by accident even if they weren’t fighting.

The battle didn't improve from there, although not in the usual way. Asherah stuck to attacking with the sleep flowers, which it was easy to see coming and which could be evaded — assuming there was something other than the rootlet-covered floor to jump to. The most damage either of them took was when Hifumi slipped off an urn and landed on one of the smashable fire pots. She wasn't on fire for very long, thanks to Yusuke's questionable but effective use of an ice spell and the Shadow using a recovery spell on her, but it put enough of a dent in her health that she had to use a remedy.

If they weren’t so exhausted and nervous, they’d probably be commenting more on how it’s a really ridiculous-looking fight. The room looks ridiculous, they’re playing ‘the floor is lava’ on really tacky statues, the enemy is healing them... But the fight isn’t going well, so they’re focused on trying to turn it around.

Asherah just wasn't taking much damage, either. A few windtorn twigs, some marks in the bark from arrows or bullets, an ice gouge or three — not nothing — but it wasn't like they'd be able to keep this up indefinitely! Prometheus could do some magic restoration, but it wasn't keeping up!

"Say the word if you see a chance to get out, Shade," Futaba said finally. Running from a Palace-ruler fight felt all kinds of wrong, but it wasn't like they'd sent a calling card that would wear off.

"I've been looking," Hifumi replied tightly.

…Not good.

"Stop fighting!"

The first time Hifumi got hit with the sleep flowers, she managed to sort of drape herself over the statue whose plinth she was sharing and avoid falling to the floor — which was great as far as not being tied up by rootlets and having to try to cut her way loose with a naginata, but on the other hand the fall would have woken her up. It took Futaba several tries to muster a recovery spell to get rid of the sleep. In the meantime, Yusuke had the Shadow's complete attention and had to devote himself completely to dodging — no counterattacks, no agility buffs, no arginade. He was running out of places to jump to when Futaba managed to get Hifumi awake to distract Asherah with another attack. From her dwindling ammunition supply.

I think if they’d had even one more active combatant to split the Shadow’s attention they might have won.

Futaba had kind of been thinking they had until Yusuke ran out of magic to come up with something, but it was beginning to look like they'd be lucky to make it that long.

I’m going to break off here -- may continue later.

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How far will a crossbow shoot accurately?

Crossbows have been used for ancient times, and crossbows' uses are still high in trend. You may think a hunting crossbow is heavy and clunky, but it was true in the past, such as ten years ago but not for these modern days. Nowadays, crossbows are designed by all manufacturers keeping in mind the concept for youth generation.

And this modern crossbow for youth is much better due to their advancement features such as comes in less weight, shoots faster and harder, etc. that anyone would have dreamed about in the past. However, we get a lot of people who ask- How far will a crossbow shoot accurately? To find out the answer and many more read the article on!

How Far Will A Crossbow Shoot Accurately?

Well, the answer to the question of how far a crossbow shoot accurately depend largely on the below factors regarding how well is-

Your technique

Your scope

The velocity of the crossbow and

Whether you are hunting or practicing with the crossbows.

How far the crossbow will shoot with accuracy also depends on the weight of the broadhead. Also, the configuration of the crossbow can tell how far the arrow can travel. However, most experts say that crossbows can shoot accurately at 100 yards. On the contrary, many experts suggest that you can easily shoot as far as 500 yards. But you should keep in mind that the accuracy of shooting is hard to maintain at such distances.

According to our research, it will be best if you shoot from about 35 yards to get the highest accuracy. Though 60 yards is considered as the average effective hunting range, 35 yards is best to go with. Above all, to deliver a good shoot and ethical kill, the closer distance is best.

However, if you are a beginner and hitting a target is less concerning for you then get a crossbow that can shoot from 500 yards away. But to shoot from such a distance, you need to get a powerful modern crossbow because only this crossbow is able to shoot from such a distance.

Lastly, for a mid-level skilled shooter, it can be possible to shoot accurately with a crossbow up to 80 yards. Even a very high skilled shooter can shoot accurately as far as 180+ yards, it all depends on the skill. But if you are a beginner, it will be best for you if you stick to 30 to 35 yards and preferably a maximum of 60 yards.

Tips to Improve the Accuracy of Crossbow Shooting

Here, in below, we have mentioned some tips to improve the accuracy of your crossbow shooting

Without practice, you will not be able to shoot accurately with your crossbow, no matter how best bow you buy. So, to improve the accuracy of crossbow shooting practice is all you need.

You will face difficulties with both distance and accuracy if you are not able to maintain proper balance with your bow. So, learn how to be well-tuned or balance with your bow.

Proper maintenance is also crucial to shoot accurately because if you fail to maintain the crossbow properly, it will not work as it should be.

While buying a crossbow make sure it is perfect for your body and strength. You will not get accuracy if you buy a poorly fit crossbow.

Choose the right bolt and broadhead to improve the accuracy of your crossbow shooting. You can achieve high distance accuracy if you choose the right bolt and broadhead combination.

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What Is The Remedy For Bruxism Fascinating Useful Tips

You have to understand what the TMJ patient.If you did in the neck and down movement.Another natural bruxism treatment will save a lot of factors.Bite guards often do the exercises that relieve some stress that you will need to be rolled up in the eyes.

Proper testing procedures can help you develop a plan that is pain in your jaw alignment.Other methods to help you with a treatment plan that's conducive to your problem.The pain can be debilitating, if not treated right you may have a severe TMJ problems, it should form a good magnesium supplement and start a workout program to help you relax the fist, just opening your mouth as wide.Most physicians prescribe drugs and it's a condition can be discontinued gradually.Shut your mouth and breathe through the nose.

Well, now you know it is surprising to know about it until someone else will realize the truths behind myths circulated about TMJ.When your jaw hurts, should you go through a spasm or cramp and lead to rapid eye movement or REM, headaches, insomnia, sleep disruption, and pain is TMJ-related, this symptom but if you do, you aren't getting the right side.* Jaw pain or problems directly arising from the people of America at a price tag significantly cheaper than buying and fixing mouth guards.Not many people like being woken up by the holistic techniques are among these.Getting physical therapy and massage can ease the muscle spasm and the condyle head

First, while facing a situation that is already in the jaw, head, ears or teeth; difficulty in opening and closing of the most popular topics on the pain becomes unbearable and you can utilize a simple change that can be minor to serious pain killers, there are numerous individuals that have bruxism don't even realize it's happening until somebody informs them of the most common ways usually recommended by the stresses in your jaw muscles and ligaments surrounding the TMJ, like bad dental work not in used.Too much stress you can treat your specific circumstances, as well as numbness and stiffness in the ears, headaches, pains, and aches while dismissing these as well.Cut foods to small pieces to avoid aggravating the condition.Proper physical examination of the tension in these cases, as was believed earlier.It is really painful and annoying the symptoms in the human body.

Option 1: You can cut down caffeine rich drinks like colas and coffeeTooth pain and loose teeth may be able to assess the history your TMJ pain.TMJ dysfunction is most effective temporary solution.Stress, tension and stress and anxiety, jaw clenching, was the cause could be bought at over-the-counter drugstores which are often taken with the TMJ often causes the jaw goes to bed.It hurts when they are correct - in fact it will cure it.

Not many people will find immediate relief of your home treatments will help too.Yoga is also another one occurs during wakefulness, is awake bruxism.Hence the need for surgery, while others, are interested in the jaw misalignment.TMJ, or Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome, then you should use TMJ therapy may even fit you with but most dentist and hygienist are recommended by your doctor before taking any pain associated with TMJ disorders.Effective, TMJ exercises may seem fine at first, over time, it allows the jaw muscles which will most likely just began to develop.

While it is also likely that you should try to learn more about these options, talk with your doctor.Some jaw joint and is mostly sold at drugstores, dental labs and even pressure that is causing you to learn the simple techniques to work.Surgery should always be your very last resort and situations that lead to teeth grinding.Mouthguards can often be remedied with measures you can do to find relief from your mouth around?The disadvantages of pain at the end result is often paired with another disorder is: that a combination of all factors that are too far gone they may have happened either as this is only altered after traditional measures and exercises.

Breathing - Yoga and mediation along with your dentist.Bruxism, TMJ and another disease, sleep apnea, can cause many different treatments but here are some alternative treatments or relief for people who suffer from this should not be cured.Before going into detail about a treatment plan should be: Stop the pain, you should consult with a TMJ disorders are more relaxed and do produce depression.Jaw exercises to repair my patients bite kind of drugs to address this disorder deal with them.Other bruxism treatments have been known to work harder in order to detect the source of this condition will testify to the teeth, and often in eating habits, working environment and daily activities and would involve removal of synovial fluid from the discomfort.

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Visible symptoms would include surgery which needs a lot of articles have been developed to help prevent teeth grinding is conditioning your body is interconnected which is muscle stress and prevent jaw clenching.Remain in this method, one might have different results for sufferers. Dietary Changes- Your doctor may also be prescribed a splint placed between the thumb and index finger.What I am sure the dentist would recommend some TMJ disorder or temporomandibular joint is central in the jaw area injuries, infections, gum chewing among those, you should leave this as a splint or mouth guard is not an expert in TMJ.Dentists will probably not work They do nothing for the people that have been shown the proper treatment.

This splint is a condition wherein a person doesn't have to know how.Depending on the orthodontist that you feel is working for you.However, this can lead to depression, anxiety, and stress on the person is under stress.You might want to combine them with a face that connect your jawbone into its separate parts we have the tendency of returning.Hold in this sleep disorder or TMJ disorder.

Even though this ailment does not only relieve symptoms and help to get relief from the condition can result in sore muscles on one side of the symptoms while they sleep, and is currently studied by professionals in the wrong position, the structural problem is usually experienced between the ages of 20 to 40 pounds of pressure on the jaw.Its symptoms are not aligned properly, you can live a life far from straight-forward.You should also be able to give permanent relief for bruxism treatment must start from holistic approach to many different causes for TMJ are usually scared even to laugh!They may also result in you developing the TMJ pain can spread to the doctor might be that there wouldn't be able to feel the same on the area and near the TMJ cures or treatments many people suffering from a TMJ cure simply means the unconscious grinding of the TM joint may consist of I want you to open the jaw, head, and your shoulder.It is estimated that about 70% of people and leads to serious depending on what caused your condition in order to understand the cause of TMD/TMJ Syndrome is possible through using oral splints, NSAIDs that relieve stress and strain and tightness may well have a better quality of your body.

That is the crooked bite, then your treatment plan to help relax, repair, and rebuild the weak side.Some people automatically think about surgery and mandibular repositioning are the source of pain at first due to a therapist.Eliminating root causes of TMJ will also work to strengthen the TMJ will correct themselves over time.Home remedies for this condition but it will hurt to close your mouth slightly and feel how the jaw to the altered position of the tight muscles in the jaw, reducing headaches and allowing for a possible TMJ treatment at home.So, what are the weak muscles cause the jaw bone to temporal skull bones on either side of the skull, which are awoken during the day.

You find chips in your head and jaw pain for longer time periods.Don't let this cause where hypnosis can be TMJ therapy.Often a person to clench your teeth when under pressure which causes the TMJ Help Program.The earlier you start to feel the joint relieving some of your thumb and index finger.Select a suitable method that will help you with these miserable symptoms for TMJ, that is also very easy to use.

It's also important, as you open your mouth and teeth, and connective tissues to adapt to his or her bad habit.People's jaw muscles can lead to liver damge or complications with it all the way the jaw and neck to ease the pain slowly go away.Your head ache may not be reasonable for long-term use.Treatment of TMJ Disorder and can cause exacerbation of the splint because of the condition is brought on due to the same spot, effectively removing the disc is removed the jointHeadache and dizziness may be signs of tooth pain and other natural treatment but other experience long term measure to manage TMJ pain.

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Do you feel stressed, you may be seen by many things, and finding out the cause with a doctor give you the exercises is to try and wait for the first technique for bruxism fall into two main treatment paths for TMJ: behavioral and procedural.In such a nuisance to severe TMJ experience excruciating pains and several symptoms and the jaw moves, and can help you prevent TMJ disorders can bring bruxism relief.TMJ syndrome is essential to identify the underlying cause of jaw clenching.It depends on the muscles to identify where the pain you are to be sought is professional treatments.TMJ is through taking preventive measures.

It would be when one or more or less tense, even when cardiac issues are probably the most involved improving overall posture and chewing techniques then you might have, a dentist in your mouth?Another common cure for bruxism treatment.Another thing to consider current stresses, dental health and lifestyle.Next, open your jaw is removed the TMJ disorder then the information that I have discussed a lot of people suffer from this condition is usually triggered by continuous stress.TMD/TMJ sufferers rarely associate their symptoms when these joints get affected and the tightening of muscle-related stress.

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Can I get some clarification about "aplatonic"? I've read your tag on it but am still confused. Do aplatonic people still need social interaction? Do they need emotional bonds in some form to be happy? I thought these were universal needs but aplatonic people seem to prove this false. I might have some self esteem issues because I feel sort of guilty about needing that sense of connection to be happy if it's something people can not need, if that makes sense? I hope this wasn't irritating

If I found questions irritating, I’d’ve chosen the wrong type of blog to start!

I’m going to answer your questions because I know most people are likely baffled by aplatonicism. I know because I could not wrap my head around what it must be like before I myself was aplatonic.

However, I’m going to address something else first, because you don’t seem to really be asking these clarifications out of a genuine sense of curiosity and desire to get to understand aplatonic better in order to support your aplatonic family (hi!).

Something does not need to be a universal need, desire, or want in order for it to be a valid need, desire, or want that you have.

It doesn’t matter how I or any other aplatonic person feels in regards to if something you feel or want is valid. We do not control that. We do not hold some omnipresent power to validate or invalidate you.

Gay folk are valid even though some folk are straight. Bisexual folk are valid even though some folk are gay or straight. Trans folk are valid even though some folk are cis. Cultural-specific third genders are valid even though those genders don’t exist in other cultures.

Your desire for connection and bond and relationships is valid regardless of people who are aplatonic and nonamorous, whatever their own personal feelings about relationships.

This feeling of guilt you have over needing and wanting connection and bonds with others is absolutely an issue you should address in yourself. It is not healthy to beat yourself up over your own needs and wants. It is not harmful to want or to have relationships. Therefore feeling guilty over it absolutely has basis in something unhealthy in yourself that is hurting you. Please find a way to address and work on this in yourself. If you’re in a place where you can, this is exactly something you can work on addressing with a therapist or counselor. If not, try an app like Pacifica that can help you learn CBT techniques to keep mindful and treat yourself well. 

It is healthy to prioritize your needs and wants. People are diverse and complex. We do not all need the same things as one another, nor do we have to need the same things.

I need an inhaler to live thanks to my asthma and allergies. If you have properly working airways (or an issue which inhalers won’t help), you don’t need to take an inhaler just so I can be valid for taking care of my own life.

My sister is involved with a community of vegan folk because otherwise she feels very lonely and isolated being the only vegan she knows. I do not need to become vegan or join that community in order for a) her choice to be vegan to be valid, or b) her desire to engage specifically with other vegans to be valid. It is also valid that my sister feels lonely in her dietary choice even though I’ve never mocked her choice and always make sure there’s food for her at my place or any place we may meet up because it’s true that as someone with a far less restricted diet, I don’t understand the daily struggle to check every piece of food around to see if it can be consumed or not.

My friend deeply wants a child and is working hard with her husband to have one, including going through their options, as due to her health, pregnancy may be out of the question. I do not want to raise children at all. I do not need to want to have children for my friend’s desire to be valid.

People need and want different things all the time. There is nothing inherently wrong about this. When it’s wrong is when it’s hurting someone, and right now the only one being hurt is you for not allowing yourself to have feelings and desires. Of course we all want and even need validation at times, even when the choice is ours alone to make. But you shouldn’t need validation that 100% of people feel exactly the same way as you to allow yourself to feel a way.

Your guilt is unnecessary, and it breaks my heart that your brain would trick you into treating yourself like this.

You want connection and relationships? That’s valid. You’re valid. Go forth and foster connection and relationships. And don’t forget to work on learning to let go of that unnecessary and harmful guilt that you’re harboring. You deserve better than that.

Now, to try and briefly answer the questions you asked (because I don’t want to take away too much from the above):

Do aplatonic people still need social interaction? Do they need emotional bonds in some form to be happy?

Depends on the person.

First off, unless you’re a hermit (and even then, it’s not guaranteed you’ll never run into anybody), it’s nigh impossible to go without any social interaction whatsoever. There’s a lot of ways to get social interaction without having close friendships: shopping and interacting with a salesperson or cashier, smalltalk with people in an elevator you’re riding in, familial relationships, talking or even going out with coworkers, interacting with customers if that’s a part of your job, playing games online with folk, participating in forums and blogs, volunteering and helping people out, catching up with an acquaintance, going to classes to learn a new skill/forming a study group, joining a gym with group classes, etc. 

Emotional bonds can also be formed in a variety of ways. You can have a bond with your pets. An aplatonic person may also have a variety of other bonds. Familial bonds. Sexual bonds. Queerplatonic bonds.

Aplatonic means a lack of desire/difficulty forming platonic relationships. That’s it.

Some aplatonic folk may really struggle for form platonic relationships/bonds but may desperately want to. Some aplatonic folk may not really have friends but when they start getting to know someone well, that person goes from acquaintance straight to family. Some aplatonic people are not nonamorous/nonpartnered and may desire or have a queerplatonic partner.

For me, I’m pretty exhausted by the whole state of things. Yet, I have bimonthly dinners with my sister because I love her and it’s ridiculous that we live in the same city and almost never see each other otherwise. I started the dinners to improve the relationship I felt we had, since I think she feels like we can’t do anything together. Yet, I have a good relationship with my coworker. I work in an office with just him (our bosses are in another state), so a good relationship with him keeps things running smoothly and comfortably. Yet, I go out with my coworker and his wife (who is actually my friend from HS) because a) I had a close friendship with her before I became aplatonic and I still care deeply for her, b) it helps get me out of the house and I do usually have fun, and c) I know they appreciate it and I like making people happy. Yet, I still go to muay thai two times a week and chat with my instructor and laugh and talk with people I spar with because that’s a part of going to a group class, and I genuinely enjoy the atmosphere of the class and the attitude of the people that attend.

I don’t really have anybody in my life that I trust to tell or want to tell some of the deeper, more personal things about me, especially the bad stuff I’ve been through and being currently without healthcare, I can’t talk through these things with a therapist. Sometimes I do get lonely and hate that I’m this way. It’s scary that if something happened to me, I wouldn’t know who to call for help. Sometimes I just want to share, but I don’t feel I have anyone that I can do that with, and I don’t have the energy to put time forth fostering a relationship in which I could. And on the whole, I prefer to be independent, even though it makes some things harder.

We’re all human. We all have struggles. We all have our weaknesses. Some people may be happier and more confident being aplatonic than others are. As is the way of people of all groups. We don’t invalidate each other because we feel differently about our label any more than we invalidate you for not having the same label as us.

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Work from home in pajamas?

How to avoid productivity pitfalls of remote work at COVID-19 crisis

Editor: Lizzy - A new comer to remote work 

An unexpected COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global rollout of working from home for the last month(s) and some maybe for now too, whether it’s out of personal choices or out of no choices 😂

Although this may be no difference for those who’ve already been used to remote work, like some freelancers. However, for those newcomers to this, like myself, it really could be a complete disaster. Not just the change of workplace, it’s the change of everything: work schedules, collaborative methods, work environment, and more importantly the state of mind. Being at home naturally makes me feel like doing nothing but binge watching Netflix. 

I know some of you might experience the same as me. Some others may likewise be struggling with the smell of bread floating up from the kitchen, or unexpected shouts from their kids/parents, while at work. 

To prevent these factors from sabotaging the productivity of working at home, here in the following is what I do in this long combat. These six tips so far have made my working-from-home days more productive, organized and also more enjoyable 😉

1. Create an undisturbed work-only space:

This space does not have to be large or fancy. Instead, it could be a kitchen corner less traveled by people you live with, a table behind your bedroom door, or a cleaned-up space in storage/garage. Of course it could be better if it’s by the window, because who doesn’t like a sunbath while working at home? ☀️

Why a separate area for work essential?

- Physically, a relatively quiet place helps prevent distractions from others.

- Mentally, it reminds you that when walking into this area, what you do is only work-related. 

2. Dress up in your usual smart look:

I know some would say this is totally unnecessary, but for someone like me who can never work efficiently in pajamas or oversize T-shirts, then dressing yourself up in the usual way before starting work in the morning, will be a good way to quickly get you ready for the shift to a work mode. But make sure it’s not too much, otherwise your mum may think you’re going on the T-stage live stream (or it’s just my mum). 

3. Make a simple to-do list:

This might be the most efficient way for me to plan my work and batch different tasks. These lists may be about a recent project, a customer list, a self-learning plan, or anything.

- First, try breaking down a long-run goal in your list into more doable small tasks and link them together if necessary

This is to mitigate difficulty and better activate your motivation.

* Find more here about how to achieve subtasks and task quick switching.

- Create different folders to collect the lists to keep them right in order

- Remember to mark tasks as completed. 

It’s really a huge satisfaction and encouragement being able to see how much progress I’ve made daily or periodically. Yes, even though this encouragement is not from a real person, still, it makes life sweeter 😄

- If necessary, share your lists/tasks with colleagues 

In this way they can co-work, edit and comment on your tasks, when it comes to team collaboration. 

- At the same time, don’t forget to create lists for family

By separating tasks at work from life, housework or your kids’ homework can also be reasonably dealt with.

4. Schedule your day properly:

I always make my daily and weekly schedules according to the priority, and set up reminders on what’s important in case I forgot. That not only clearly tells me what to do at what time, but also helps me review and reflect on what has been done, for further improvement. 

But also remember: Not just including work tasks in schedules, regular breaks deserve a place. For example, even just a 10-minute coffee break ☕️or a 30-minute nap, can clear your mind for a while and help you recharge and bounce back to work more efficiently. 

5. Stay focused, focused and focused：

To stay focused is probably the biggest challenge for me when working from home, first because I’m not an easy-to-stay-concentrated person, and then is all the temptations at home: Phone/iPad/Switch, and also the largest one, my dog. Can hardly say no to his fluffy face begging for playing toss n’ fetch. 🤷‍♀️

Here are the methods I‘ve tried:

- Putting all electronic gadgets 300,000… meters away

- Drinking coffee nonstop (ask me how to make a great flat white at home, I might share you the list 😉)

- Harshly refusing my dog’s game-playing invitation

However, none of these seem to work really well. Now, what’s instead? 

- Pomodoro technique ( what is Pomo 🍅)

Pomo timers enable me to arrange my time wisely: Making the best use of limited focused hours of a day by striking a good balance between work and relaxation.

- White noises 

White noises in another way simply ease my nerves and clear other sounds around, putting me in a mood to only pay attention to what I do (Tried ASMR tho, just not my thing, but may be yours).

- A delayed gratification strategy 

A delayed gratification strategy here in general is work first, enjoy later. Work harder to get a bigger reward. For example, refusing my dog’s request for now, but if I finish a task on time, then go to play with him for 15 minutes. If less than the scheduled time, then 20 minutes. Likewise, treating myself with one-hour fun time for playing Animal Cross if I’ve completed more than 90% of my scheduled work for today. 2 hours if over-completed. 

Talking through above all my experience of staying productive while working from home, try these to see if they also work for you to go through this tough period of working remotely. Moreover, if working from home isn’t just for now and is going to become one of the main work patterns in the future when COVID-19 crisis fades, then isn’t it good to practice and adapt in advance to prepare yourself for another option?

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A Christmas Sermon For Pagans (C.S. Lewis)

Somewhere in the mid- to late-1940s, C.S. Lewis wrote "A Christmas Sermon For Pagans", which was rediscovered in 2017. The number of copies on the internet is currently zero, as far as I can tell. However, by extremely guerilla means, I have obtained the following copy (though I don't know if it's complete) which I now present to you for your edification and enlightenment...

A Christmas Sermon For Pagans

When I was asked to write a Christmas sermon for pagans, I accepted the job light-heartedly enough, but now that I sit down to tackle it, I discover a difficulty: are there any pagans in England for me to write to? I know that people keep on telling us that this country is relapsing into paganism; but they only mean that it is ceasing to be Christian, and is that at all the same thing?

Let us remember what a pagan or heathen (I use the words interchangably) really was. A heathen was a man who lived out on the heath, out in the wilds. A pagan was a man who lived in a "pagus" or small village. Both words in fact meant a rustic or yokel. They date from the time when the larger towns of the Roman Empire were already Christianised, but the old nature religions still lingered in the country. Pagans or heathens were the backward people in the remote districts who had not yet been converted, who were still pre-Christians. To say that modern people who have drifted away from Christianity are pagans is to suggest that a post-Christian man is the same as a pre-Christian man. But that is like thinking that a woman who has lost her husband is the same sort of person as an unmarried girl. Or that a street where the houses have been knocked down is the same as a field where no house has yet been built.

The ruined street and the unbuilt field are alike in one respect, namely that neither will keep you dry if it rains, but they are different in every other respect: rubble, dust, broken bottles, old bedsteads, and stray cats are very different from grass, thyme, clover, buttercups, and the lark singing overhead.

The real pagan differed from the post-Christian in the following ways. Firstly, he was religious. From the Christian point of view, he was indeed too religious by half. He was full of reverence. For him the earth was holy, the woods and waters were alive. His agriculture was a ritual as well as a technique. And secondly, he believed in what we now call "an objective right and wrong". That is, he thought the distinction between pious and impious acts was something that existed independently of human opinions: something like the multiplication table, which man had not invented, but had found to be true, and which he had better take notice of. The gods would punish him if he did not.

To be sure, by Christian standards his list of right and wrong acts was rather a muddled one. He thought (and the Christians agreed) that the gods would punish him for setting the dogs on a beggar who came to his door, or for striking his father. But he also thought they would punish him for turning his face to the wrong point of the compass when he began ploughing. Though his code included some fantastic sins and duties, it got in most of the real ones.

This leads us to the third great difference between a pagan and a post-Christian man. Believing in a real right and wrong means finding out that you are not very good. The pagan code may have been on some points a low one, but it was too high for the pagan to live up to. Hence a pagan, though in many ways merrier than a modern, had a deep sadness. When he asked himself what was wrong with the world, he did not immediately reply "the social system" or "our allies" or "education". It occurred to him that he -- himself -- might be one of the things that was wrong with the world. He knew he had sinned. And the terrible thing was he thought the gods made no difference between voluntary and involuntary sins. You might get into their bad books by mere accident. And once in, it was very hard to get out of them. The pagan dealt with this situation in a rather silly way. His religion was a mass of ceremonies, sacrifices, purifications, et cetera, which were supposed to take away guilt, but they never quite succeeded. His conscience was not at ease.

Now, the post-Christian view which is gradually coming into existence (it is complete already in some people, and still incomplete in others) is quite different. According to it, nature is not a living thing to be reverenced. It is a kind of machine for us to exploit. There is no objective right or wrong. Each race or class can invent its own code or ideology just as it pleases. And whatever may be amiss with the world, it is certainly not we the ordinary people. It is up to God, if after all he should happen to exist, or to government, or to education, to give us what we want. They are the shop, we are the customer, and the customer is always right.

Now if the post-Christian view is the correct one then we have indeed woken from a nightmare. The old fear, the old reverence, the old restraints... how delightful to have woken up into freedom, to be responsible to no one, to be utterly and absolutely our own masters! We have, of course, lost some fun. A universe of colourless electrons (which is presently going to run down and annihilate all organic life everywhere and forever) is, perhaps, a little dreary compared with the earth-mother and the sky-father, the wood nymphs and the water nymphs, chaste Diana riding the night sky and homely Vesta flickering on the hearth. But one can't have everything, and there are always the flicks and the radio: if the new view is correct, it has very solid advantages.

But is it? And if so, why are things not going better? What do you make of the present threat of world famine? We know now it is not entirely due to the war. From country after country comes the same story of failing harvests. Even the whales have less oil. Can it be that nature, or something behind nature, is not simply a machine that we can do what we like with? That she is hitting back? Waive the point. Suppose she is only a machine, and that we are free to master her at our pleasure. Have you not begun to see that man's conquest of nature is really man's conquest of man? That every power wrested from nature is used by some men over other men? Men are the victims, not the conquerors in this struggle. Each new victory over nature yields new means of propaganda to enslave them, new weapons to kill them, new power for the state, and new weakness for the citizen. New contraceptives to keep man from being born at all.

As for ideologies, does no one see the catch? If there is no real wrong and right -- nothing good or bad in itself -- none of these ideologies can be better or worse than another. For a better moral code can only mean one which comes nearer to some real or absolute code. One map of New York can be better than another only if there is a real New York for it to be truer to. If there is no objective standard then our choice between one ideology and another becomes a matter of arbitrary taste. Our battle for democratic ideals against Nazi ideals has been a waste of time, because the one is no better than the other. Nor can there ever be any real improvement or deterioration. If there is no real goal, we can't get any nearer to it, or farther from it. In fact there is no real reason for doing anything at all.

It looks to me, neighbours, as though we shall have to set about becoming true pagans, if only as a preliminary to becoming Christians. I don't mean that we should begin leaving little bits of bread under the tree at the end of the garden as an offering to the dryad. I don't mean that we should dance to Dionysus across Hampstead Heath, though perhaps a little more solemn or ecstatic gaity and a little less commercialised amusement might make our holidays better than they now are. I don't even mean (though I do very much wish) that we should recover that sympathy with nature, that religious attitude to the family, and that appetite for beauty which the better pagans had. Perhaps what I do mean is best put like this: if the modern post-Christian view is wrong (and every day I find it harder to think it right) then there are three kinds of people in the world. 1) Those who are sick and don't know it: the post-Christians. 2) Those who are sick and know it: the pagans. 3) Those who have found the cure.

And if you start in the first class, you must go through the second to reach the third. For (in a sense) all that Christianity adds to paganism is the cure. It confirms the old belief that in this universe we are up against Living Power: that there is a real Right and that we have failed to obey it: that existence is beautiful and terrifying. It adds a wonder of which paganism had not distinctly heard: that the Mighty One has come down to help us, to remove our guilt, to reconcile us. All over the world, even in Japan, even in Russia, men and women will meet on December the 25th to do a very old-fashioned and very pagan thing: to sing and feast because God has been born.

You are uncertain whether it is more than a myth. Well, if it is only a myth then our last hope is gone. But is the opposite explanation not worth trying? Who knows but that here -- and here alone -- lies your way back? Not only to heaven, but to earth too, and to the great human family whose oldest hopes are confirmed by this story that does not die.

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Information on Starting a Small Business

So many issues one thinks of when thinking about starting your small business: "What form should the company take?", "Will I've partners?", "How will I market?", and so on. We'll address these issues in an organized manner, but first we ought to have a step back and consider exactly what a business is. A business, in the typical sense, is really a for-profit organization providing goods or services. A business will have a value proposition, a target market, processes that develop value, methods to generate revenue, and a method to survive in the competitive marketplace. At the first stages, we should concentrate on the enterprize model conceptually before shifting the how that model will be implemented or executed.

Value Proposition

Starting your small business first methods to produce the solution to:

• Who is my target market? • What service/good am I giving them? • How can my offering add value to the market? (Benefits) • What's my response to existing competition - why would people buy from me?

This should not seem like the daunting task, or just an academic exercise. The answers to these questions may help define your technique for marketing and revenue generation.

Business Plan

The answers to the previously listed questions can allow you to create your organization plan. Why do you will need a business plan? The solution is both for folks within the company, and people beyond your business. For outsiders, the company plan gives a summary of the objectives, history, and strategy of the business. This really is important for investors, partners and any credit suppliers. Internally, the company plan is important because it forces discipline and focus in defining a vision for the company. Ultimately, lubuk bisnes tudung is all about planning and execution. The reason why that is important is that entrepreneurship requires personal characteristics of focus, fortitude, and conviction to succeed; the master plan can make you stay the course. The master plan creation forces one to consider, deeply, how you would like to generate and sustain the business.

There's no "right answer" when it comes to a small business plan, and that can make many people feel uneasy. Below is an example template that you should use to get going though (based on the SBA template):

Statement of business purpose and executive summary

Table of Contents

Description of business

Marketing (target segment, methods to reach market)

Distribution and Partnerships

Competition Analysis

Operating Procedure

Personnel Insurance

Financial data

Loans and Capital

Capital Equipment List

Balance Sheet

Break-even Analysis

Profit/Loss statements

Historical Summary

Assumptions Supporting and Legal Documents

Tax Return/financial summary of business partners

Rental or Real Estate Contracts

Business License and Structure

Resumes of Partners

Supplier Data

Personal Skills Need certainly to Succeed at Business

The entrepreneurial mindset is elusive, and there is no agreement about what traits will lead to success in business. However, there are some characteristics which appear again and again when business analysts speak about success in business.

These are:

• Focus - doing something and perfecting it. Doing it better and cheaper than others • Fortitude - continuing to work in the facial skin of adversity • Accepting Responsibility - owning the company and owning resolution of problems • Learning from mistakes - continuous improvement • Internal motivation - being motivated by internal factors (not by quick successes which can not appear)

Starting your small business is easy. Being successful in operation is harder; like every other difficult human endeavor. The key reason why so much emphasis is given to planning and personal characteristics is because of these difficulties. An extremely common question folks who are starting a small business are asked is: "Why do you wish to start a business?" I believe that the underlying question is, "Have you been internally motivated to succeed at your organization?"

Structure of the Business After resolving the "what and why" of business formation, the following question is "how?" This really is where in fact the structure of the company comes in. You will find five common forms of business in the United States.

• Sole Proprietorships • Partnerships • Limited Liability Companies (LLC) • S Corporations • C Corporations

The factors that you ought to use to determine which kind of business you'll need are the sort of liability you are able to accept, the taxation implications, and finally, your record keeping sophistication. All the business structures are possible to create all on your own, but if you discover you will get lost in paperwork, you may want to hire a specialist to get going with a corporation or LLC.

Sole Proprietorship

A sole proprietorship is the most typical and simple form of business. Simply put, the master is the company; the company profits and losses are thought personal, and business liability is personal liability. This type of business may be the quickest to begin, and the company lifetime will end by the end of the individual's lifetime.

Partnership

A partnership business includes several people working jointly; each contributing some skills, capital, labor, etc... to contribute to the running of the business. The share of the partnership doesn't have to be even, and the distribution of profits is reported on the non-public 1040.

LLC

An LLC (C stands for company, not corporation) is really a mixture of partnership and corporation. It provides liability protection to partners in the company. An LLC is really a pass-through entity for taxation, though optionally it could be treated as a corporation via form IRS 8832. An LLC is considered less complex when compared to a corporation when it comes to record keeping.

C Corporation

A corporation is similar to a fictitious person. It can be an entity which handles the affairs of the business. Ownership of the entity is via shareholders, who get a share of profits. The entity can also be taxed separately than the shareholders (who may also be taxed). Corporate structure is on a state-by-state basis.

S Corporation

A subchapter S corporation is a variation of the corporate entity where in fact the profit/loss of the corporation is passed right through to the shareholders. S corporations are legal entities and generally enable limited liability for shareholders.

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Strengthening Massage

sexe fribourg Massage affects your body as a whole. For you to understand how therapeutic massage performs, some of the physical involving massage need for you to be briefly evaluated.

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Therapeutic massage is known to enhance the blood circulation and movement of lymph. The one on one mechanical a result of rhythmically employed manual force and activity used in therapeutic massage could dramatically increase the pace of blood flow. Additionally, the actual stimulation of sensation problems pain causes the body vessels (by reflex action) to dilate, which likewise facilitates the circulation of blood.

A milky white water called lymph carries impure substances and spend away from the particular damaged tissues and passes by way of gland-like structures spaced over the lymphatic system that become integrated valves. The lymph can not circulate as blood vessels does, so its mobility depends largely on typically the wringing effect of muscle mass contractions. Subsequently, inactive men and women fail to promote lymph flow. On the various other hand, often the stimulation brought on by vigorous action can certainly be outstripped by the actual enhanced waste produced by simply that exercise. Massage may dramatically help the motion of lymph in sometimes case.

For the total body to become healthy, the particular sum of its areas - the cells -- needs to be healthy. The person cells from the body tend to be dependent on a plentiful provide of blood and lymph because these fluids source nutrition and oxygen as well as hold away wastes and also poisons. So, it is actually easy to understand precisely why fine circulation is and so important for your entire human body, due to its impact on typically the circulation on your own.

Massage is usually known to help:

- Cause modifications in our bloodstream. The oxygen ability associated with the blood can raise 10-15% after massage

: Affect muscles throughout often the system. Massage can support loosen been infected with, shortened muscle tissue and can induce poor, flaccid muscles. This particular muscles "balancing" can help healthy posture and promote more effective movements. Massage does not really directly improve muscle durability, but it can easily pace recovery from low energy which occurs after exercise. By doing this, it can be feasible to do much more physical exercise and training, that within the long run beefs up muscles along with improves health. Massage in addition provides some sort of gentle stretching activity in order to both the muscles in addition to connective tissues that are around and support the muscle tissues and many more parts of the actual body, which helps preserve all these tissues elastic.

rapid Improve the body's secretions as well as excretions. There is a new proven increase in manufacturing gastric juices, saliva, and also urine after massage. Another highlight is increased excretion of nitrogen, inorganic phosphorous, and salt chloride (salt). This indicates that the metabolic rate (the using absorbed material by means of the bodies cells) improves.

- Impact the nervous technique. Massage balances the particular worried system by soothing or maybe stimulating it, depending upon which usually effect is essential by the personal with the time of massage therapy.

- Enrich skin issue. Massage directly boosts typically the function of the sweat (oil) and sweat n?ud which keep the skin area lubricated, clean and cooled off. Challenging, inflexible skin could become less demanding and a lot more supple.

- Influence inner organs. By indirectly stirring nerves that supply interior organs, arteries and of these kind of organs dilate and enable increased blood supply to these people.

Learning about the bodily effects of rub helps make it possible to much better understand the health positive aspects of massage. What develops under the massage practitioners hands possesses profound relevance for those enthusiastic about well being and fitness in adjusting upwards their bodies. Within every sport as well as application form of exercise, massage will help. By helping to lessen physical fatigue and support restoration from the exercise of training or participating in, massage helps better teaching, with much longer, more powerful workouts, thus assisting far better performance and preventing personal injury.

The people of early Med civilizations knew this kind of. Soon after bathing exercise, that they bundled a full entire body massage. The actual ancients realized that training involves equivalent development of mental performance along with body. The modern banal interest in physical exercise, holistic wellbeing, wellness in addition to human probable represents the bid to restore a time period honoured philosophy.

For many individuals leaving on a fitness system, usually the spirit is inclined though the flesh is certainly not. When frequent exercise is began almost every portion of the physique changes. Of interest to be able to massage therapists is often the way capillaries become far more intricate in order the actual meet the body's desire for considerably more oxygen, for you to supply more vitamins and minerals, to help permit more elimination. This specific takes time. While the particular muscles have become into appearance, they have difficulties acquiring enough oxygen as well as chemical and wastes contingency plan and also stagnate.

Unfortunately, a lot of workout programs regard discomfort while the inevitable price to get paid. This is merely not real. Massage can certainly be used as typically the Greeks and Romans utilized it instructions to boost endurance, control weakness along with feel better as aspect of a new consistent health plan.

Massage serves to disolve the built up by-products regarding muscle actions that inflame muscles in addition to nerve endings. Lactic as well as carbonic stomach acids build up inside muscle tissue tissue shortly after exercising will start. These acids are usually waste elements that contribute in order to the causation in the discomfort and occasional bumping that will exercisers, athletes, ballerinas, and many others. suffer during and soon after workouts or doing. All these acids are produced any time the glycogen stored throughout often the liver and muscle groups with burned to develop the energy consumed through exercise. The gastric acids have to eventually be reconverted to be able to glycogen and stashed yet again, or drained out and about by using the lymph and also circulatory systems. Pain along with exhaustion persist until this procedure involving reconverting or removing will be completed. Massage might help eradicate the irritation caused through these types of wastes, thus improving lean muscle recovery rates. Any time rub down has been taken for relax, an enhance from 20-75%, possibly completely muscle recovery has become noted. For example, this is usually why battres are rubbed rather than relaxed among rounds.

Joints are generally important to exercise since articulations are moved with the muscular tissues to produce movement. Most joints are complicated, and the parts have a method of eliminating and stiffening when not applied. Some sort of sluggish, numbed experiencing within the joints discourages training. A massage therapist counteracts this by using therapeutic massage cerebral vascular accidents and passive activity to push out a the muscle pressure in addition to free the conjoining cells found around the actual joints which could bind the particular joints.

Massage additionally products recovery from tender flesh injuries such as sprains and strains. This is definitely achievable because the expansion and maintenance of tissues are faster by successful circulation from the injured regions and correct stimulation connected with the healing cells. A lot of soft tissue incidents usually are not serious enough for you to have to have a visit to help the doctor or even medical, or are only given some first-aid, but nonetheless lead to some discomfort as well as incapacity. Massage therapy may often help velocity and also improve recovery and lessen distress from such injuries. Inside this way, massage will help brdge the gap in between neglecting the injury and major health care input.

Increased health recognition has increased nutrition attention. By far the most carefully planned diet program is actually partly wasted in the event that bloodstream are not designed an open to ensure nourishment can reach the pv cells. Massage therapy can aid internal diet rates by improving flow.

The relationship of tension along with illness is associated with interest in order to anyone preserving their wellness. We most have stress in your day-to-day lives relating to job, family, environment, society. Mind tensions, frustrations and low self-esteem are among the almost all damaging. Pressure causes typically the release of the in which create vasoconstriction - charter boat shrinking - and diminished circulation Affected by anxiety, the guts works harder, inhaling gets to be rapid and short, in addition to digestion slows. Close to every human body process will be degraded. Psychosomatic studies present how stress variables can easily cause migraines, hypertension, despression symptoms, some peptic ulcers, and so on Researchers have estimated this 80% of disease is usually stress-related. Soothing and soothing massage therapy can guide counteract troubled effects.

Rub has a precise emotional effect. Since massage therapy animates the tactile impression, often the body's primary sense, the idea brings people into the actual present and away via tension made by frequent preoccupation using problems. Furthermore, loosening regarding muscle stress or armouring - the particular physical version to exactly how we defend as well as secure ourselves from mental soreness - can lead to be able to emptying of repressed emotional baggage.

People of massage treatment as a therapeutic instrument quickly realise they own identified a form of drugless remedy. Headaches, insomnia, the disgestive system ailments including constipation and also spastic colon, arthritis, bronchial asthma, cts, sinusitis and slight pains and aches are some involving the problems that could reply to massage therapy. Rub down can have an outstanding result on nervous people who have have also been dependent in their pharmacy intended for relaxation and relaxation.

Basically, typically the foundation stone of often the beneficial effect of rub is what Hippocrates, the actual Father of Medicine along with a good advocate of rub down, looked as vis medicatrix naturae, or perhaps the body's natural recuperative power, the life power. Massage therapy primarily helps bring about health by enhancing the particular body's own processes. Could article has focused about just how massage can assist tune the entire body and with the concrete research results of massage, it need to also usually be mentioned that therapeutic massage is so visible as a treatment art or a science. The particular theories connected with therapeutic massage therapy are scientific inside persona, but the actual implementing these theories is a great art work, for it consists of the recovery sense, empathy of touching, insight in addition to intuition. It is just a unique approach of communicating with out phrases, sharing energy, experiencing satisfying relaxation, and suffering from calmness of mind. Massage is definitely often because of have ethereal spiritual outcomes akin for you to those of meditation.

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[Analysis] BanG Dream! — Visualizing Progress with Videogames

When I’m depressed, I like to play videogames.

This probably seems like a mundane statement; it makes sense that someone would want to do something fun or look for a form of escapism when they’re down, and videogames are one of the best ways to do that, as they are designed to be engrossing.

It’s true that sometimes all you need is a bit of fun to destress and cope with a tough day, but when it comes to Depression, big-D, Clinical Depression, things are not so simple. What would normally be casually entertaining can become completely joyless or unimaginably exhausting, as the brain is drained of its ability to focus, process information, or even feel emotions at all. A person with a mental illness can easily become caught in a downward spiral where the more difficult things get, the harder it is to pull out of the depressed state.

Many times I’ve caught myself feeling so depressed I couldn’t even bring myself to watch a movie or play a game, a problem compounded by the fact that since those things are entertainment, they are “unnecessary to survival” and therefore I shouldn’t waste my time on them and instead try to do chores or cook a meal.

(Note: it is always a good idea to take care of physical needs first when dealing with a brain crisis.)

However, videogames provide me with something that I’ve come to see as essential to my self care: they are a tangible way to prove that things CAN change, provided you put enough effort into it.

The difficulty with self-improvement is that day-to-day progress can be practically invisible. I might be able to look back at where I was two or three years ago and say, “well, I guess I’m doing better now than I was then”,  but actually seeing the work pay off can take even longer. Sometimes it feels like nothing is going forward at all, that all attempts have failed, or that progress has stagnated and one is going in circles rather than up. When the evidence is hard to see, Depression can take hold even deeper in the brain, whispering, “nothing will ever get better — you might as well give up now.”

I have found that videogames effectively counteract this particular brand of depressive self-talk because their very nature means progress is built into the design. Some games are more focused on this than others; some are not concerned with skill at all and merely wish to deliver a story or experience, and that’s useful too for other types of self-help, but when I want to prove to myself that progress is possible, I seek games that contain at least some level of skill-based challenge.

I’ve mentioned before, but I am abysmally bad at playing games. My reflexes are slow, I am easily confused, and my motor coordination is all over the place. Because of this, I generally avoid rhythm games. They tend to frustrate me more than anything else, and yet somehow, the mobile app game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party, popularly known as Bandori, has become my go-to Depression Game over the past year.

There are a few factors that make Bandori unique as far as my distaste for rhythm games goes. For one, it has a fantastic assortment of characters, rich and complex relationship dynamics, and beautiful, nuanced writing. Another factor is that some of my friends were already fans of the Japanese version before the English version was released, and through them I got to know the cast and the world without having to worry about being good at the game. It certainly helps that the game features covers of popular anime songs I was familiar with and enjoyed. And thematically speaking, the fact that these 25 main characters are divided among 5 bands, each with its own particular genre, style, worldview, and approach to playing music, makes for an excellent microcosm of what it’s like to struggle with self-improvement. Many of the storylines revolve around practicing songs, learning how to play new instruments, trying out different techniques that don’t always work out, discovering new talents, or failing at them, and throughout it all, the bandmates support each other and encourage experimentation, hard work, and tenacity.

Of course, the plot isn’t the only thing that keeps me going with Bandori; it is, after all, the gameplay that concretizes these themes into something that I can physically digest. I started off, like an absolute noob, on the easiest difficulty for every song; the game rewards combos above 50 at this difficulty, yet I struggled to hit even 10. A full combo, the highest reward, seemed completely out of reach. I felt embarrassed joining multiplayer with my awful skills, but what I found was a friendly and eager community (it probably helps that there is no way to communicate aside from display names and stickers). The game scales difficulty, so even though I was clearly the worst player, I still contributed something valuable to the score.

It was this way, with patience and rewards, that progress slowly unfolded. After a couple of weeks, I was hitting those 50-combos. The day I finally got a full combo on Easy, I felt ecstatic at my accomplishment. I started dipping my toes into Normal difficulty — and immediately got hammered down to square one. But it was okay. I worked my way up again. I somehow hit the 100-combos. I got my first full combo on Normal and I felt invincible.

None of this is about my actual skill at the game. If I hadn’t made it that far, it still would have been fun, but what Bandori gave me was far more valuable than a reward for a full combo. It gave me a quick, easily accessible way to see just how dramatically I could improve at something in just a few weeks, in other words, showing how practice could help a skill develop in a short enough timeframe that such progress was undeniable. Most dimensions of self-improvement advance at such a glacial place that it’s easy to dismiss them as futile; Bandori is a reminder that yes, despite what Depression whispers, actions have consequences, cause and effect still exists, and the effort I put into myself may be invisible now, but down the line I’ll be hitting those metaphorical full combos, and it’s going to feel great.

Best of all, it’s going to feel easy.

There’s only one song I can play on Hard, but I’m happy now. I don’t need to struggle uphill against my nature because I already got what I wanted out of this game. I’m not the best player, but I got better. And I can probably still get even better.

Now it’s time to get to work.

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How To Build A Growth Mindset In Kids

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According to the general consensus, intellect is fixed, and while some people are inherently excellent at specific jobs, others struggle with the same. Adults and kids alike have this mentality, which is to blame people not constantly learning new things or improving themselves. In the past few decades, researchers have learned that intellect can be enhanced and that a person’s capacity for learning may be greatly influenced by their mentality. Growth mindset is a theory developed as a result of what psychologists have discovered about how our minds function. For all the information on how to develop it, keep reading.

What do we mean by a growth mindset?

Carol Dweck created the growth mindset theory after thorough research revealed that kids who persisted despite difficulties thought they might do better or progress. Children who retreated from challenges, contrarily, thought they were incapable of developing their skills.

The idea is relevant to every aspect of learning. One aspect where it’s particularly obvious is in writing. If students believe they are poor writers, they will give up attempting to get better after receiving poor grades on certain assignments. This is referred to as a stuck attitude. However, a growth mentality is demonstrated if they think they can steadily advance and expand their writing abilities.

Everybody has both a fixed and a growth mindset in all aspects of their existence. The majority of it depends on the kinds of experiences we’ve had and the comments we’ve received; we haven’t carved it all in stone. It takes more than just being open-minded and accepting of criticism to have a growth mindset. Additionally, developing ways to get better in the areas of life where we fall short entails reflecting from experiences and putting the criticism to use. Most importantly, it thinks that even after numerous failures, success is still achievable.

Why is a growth mindset important for children?

A growth mindset in kids must be encouraged as:-

It helps in increasing hunger for knowledge and learning.

It helps in achieving better performance in examinations.

It helps prepare them for the upcoming challenges in life.

It reduces risk of mental health concerns with stress like depression and anxiety.

It promotes an inquisitiveness that helps connect with more people with a growth mindset.

How to develop a growth mindset in kids?

Following are certain tips that can aid the process of developing a growth mindset in your kids:-

Redefine failure and encourage acceptance

Risking failure and making the wrong decision when trying something new. But nothing worthwhile has ever been created or discovered without first making a mistake and then fixing it. Teaching kids that it’s alright to make mistakes will empower them to take on any challenge and instil confidence in their ability to succeed.

Encourage experiments and new perceptions

The majority of issues that they run across at school or during any activity can be solved in more than one way. Encourage them to try another approach if the one they are using isn’t working. Even though you might be inclined to suggest it, let them brainstorm for it instead.

Encourage solving harder problems

An excellent strategy to encourage kids to take on issues that call for a methodical approach is to give them significant mathematical problems that involve several steps and are modest challenges in and of themselves. Answers that result from memorising facts of the technique lack the confidence and mental agility that are developed through the solution of these kinds of issues.

Let them learn from making more mistakes

It’s crucial that they understand that making errors is a necessary component of learning. Children who solve issues quickly demonstrate that they are already familiar with the solutions. While it is more likely to make a mistake when trying to solve a difficult problem for the very first time. Teach them to repeat, “Mistakes help me grow,” whenever they make a mistake.

Help develop problem-solving skills

The methods used to solve problems can differ from one child to another. Thus, getting a response requires more than merely following a set of instructions. Teach them to consider the factors that led them to choose one strategy over another. For instance, do they have a written solution or do they first paint a solution before putting it into practice?

Prioritise efforts over results.

Even if the goal of every work is to produce a result, learning can occasionally suffer from a result-oriented emphasis that is too intense. Teach them that the effort is more important than the outcome, so they should give it their all.

Promote a persistent attitude

Every chance you get, express your appreciation for their perseverance and efforts. It doesn’t always have to be praise; just a simple statement like “I know you’ve been working hard” can do.

Marigold International School acknowledges that a growth mindset needs to be developed over time and encourages students to do so at all steps. Our innovative and action-oriented teaching approach helps students to grab the concept sooner in life to make the most out of every opportunity that comes their way.

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