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Dreams, State of the Art

Dr Run

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Alright. The purpose of this blog is two fold:

1. To report on the craziest run I’ve ever done up to this point in my life &
2. To state my ever growing desire to put myself through an even more grueling regimen than I am currently under.

First off…the Xango Wasatch Back Relay: 175 miles. 12 team members. 2 vans. Craziness. Quickly, though I hope to elaborate more in the near future, I had the time of my life. It’s interesting how you can enter another world for a time and break all expectations you’ve placed on yourself. I did so and it wasn’t due in any small part to the team members who ran with me, gave me water, and encouraged me ever step of the way.

I experienced inner strength sure, but the more rewarding part was the help from my fellow runners. The lessons I learned about teams was very encouraging. The help I received from above was incredible and I give all glory to my God who ran with me the entire way.

Secondly…the thought has been creeping ever more into my thoughts to go to med school. I had been preparing to go to grad school yes, but never really thought that med school was a possibility or even an interest. Turns out it is. For the last month I’ve been tossing the idea around in my head, talking with doctors and playing our scenarios in my mind. Neurology is the specialty I’d like to enter. I’m not sure where my “Brain World” idea will fit in there, but I suppose that it would be no different than going into research for 10-15 years like I had planned on and then putting that idea together.

Oh, and just for the record my thoughts towards med school predated the following little tidbit: I’ve started watching the inaccurate TV show House, M.D. Love it! Not sure why, but I love it.

The World

Absolute Truth

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SO MANY things I’ve seen and heard over the past month makes me question many things that I thought I knew. Nothing about my religion, but many other things. There seems to be quite a push for me to question absolute truth. I’ve been studying absolute truth, and as I do I note MANY “cover-ups”, “conspiracies”, and “things aren’t as they seems”.

Evil abounds. Many well intentioned people are under the influence of darkness. Destroying families. Slowly corroding religions. Destroying Christ’s divinity.

Perception, while it creates a reality in thought and belief, does not and can not change absolute reality. Just because a lie is told over and over, DOESN’T make it true. Power, money, control, greed, lust…they seek to create a “real world”, but those things can never change how the world really is, the way things really are. Truth exists in spite of the dark one’s very subtle and deceptive claims to the contrary.

I have a feeling that we believe what we feed our souls most…I would rather not find out if I can read, view, and think about darkness and come out unaffected. Studying daily from what I know in my heart to be the words of God therefore is of invaluable import. Slumbering in the night so that I can be protected from the minds wanderings through strange paths is of similar importance.

Thus, I ride home now from another late night of feeling that there’s more for me to know “out there” and disregarding the above mentioned vitals.

Faith, Goals

Success

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Finished up tonight with the last of my reading. I read about 30 pages today to get to that point. Despite the catch up I was playing it felt really good to finish up my reading in the Book of Mormon. I went running when I finished up and came home soaked! As I ran I thought about the blessings that have come into my life through reading the Book of Mormon. My thoughts recently have been a lot on my family and how a study of the Book changed my relationship with them. Whereas once I fought and hated, I now love and find joy in their company. It performed a miracle once and I feel it taking hold again.

This year I’ve learned a lot and have come to some pretty strong conclusions about my faith. I know that I can never assume for a moment that I am strong enough without my Savior on my side. I have lots of goals this year and I don’t want to accomplish any of them without the Lord close by. I thank my Heavenly Father for his blessings in my life and embark on another leg of my journey towards perfection through his grace.

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how exquisite was my pain

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I feel ripped apart, torn in seven and run over with a semi just to make sure that there’s no more possible way I could hurt any more. I guess that means I’m human, yeah? Cuz, that’s what we feel as such, right? I’m glad to know that I’m human. My, how it stings. My, how it burns. Well, at least I can say that I loved.

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Experiential Learning

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Courses: “Experiential Learning”
One of the foremost humanist psychologists and educationalists, Carl Rogers (1959) promoted the idea of experiential learning. Rogers argued that the self is the centre of all experience, and introduced the phrase ‘unconditional positive regard’ as a philosophical approach to dealing with his clients and students. Essentially, each individual should be accepted for who they are, and how they perceive their worlds. According to another humanist psychologist George Kelly (1963), each individual will construe his or her world ‘in as many different ways as their wits will allow’.
Link to George Kelly Personal Contruct Theory”