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| Five
miles a day: 'Shackleton' starring Kenneth Branagh and Matt Day |
"The
explorer Shackleton and his crew set out in 1914 to cross Antarctica on foot with
a team of dogs. The ship gets trapped in ice and eventually sinks.
The
28 men, many of whom who have never travelled over ice before, have to face the
prospect of giving into feelings of hopelessness and eventually drowning when
the ice melts or working as a team to achieve an almost impossible goal." Read the article...
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| God
is always with you: 'Castaway' starring Tom Hanks |
"If
you want to get a better idea of the emotional resources that it takes to achieve
a goal then you are encouraged to watch the film Castaway which
stars Tom Hanks.
In
this story the character Chuck Noland, a FedEx executive, is stranded on a deserted
island somewhere in the Pacific ocean. He manages to survive on fish and coconut
and after 4 years he is in quite good physical condition except that he is very
lonely. He attempts suicide but is unsuccessful then one day he gets the idea
to build a raft and sail away from the island into a shipping lane some hundreds
of miles away in the hope that a passing ship might rescue him." Read
the article...
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| Are
you ready to escape the cage of your conditioning? 'Water' A Film by Deepa Mehta. |
| "Kalyani a beautiful young widow falls in love with a Gandhi supporter who offers to marry
her. When the other widows find out they curse her and lock her in her room. Once
again when one of them is given the opportunity to free herself from her conditioning
and lead a better life the other widows fight to maintain their model of the world.
It shows how when we make progress towards what is true for us then friends, family
and society may sanction us and try to put us back in the cage. When others try
to improve their life then we may do the same. However it is only our childhood
conditioning and lack of awareness that keeps us in the cage....
In
the course Zen and the Art of Living we use a 7 step goal setting model - the SUCCESS model. Step 5 is the ecology
check: "Is there any part of you or anyone in your
life who may object to you achieving your desired outcome? If so then you need
to deal with this part in order for you to achieve your outcome""
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the article...
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