transformation | transmutation

As a foundation for lifelong learning, reflection builds confidence and fosters satisfaction in new skills - including metacognition skills that help learners observe and track their own growth. For reflection to be meaningful, it must be metacognitive, applicable, and shared with others.

New research is uncovering the power of the reflective mind to help us with lifelong learning. It seems that our reflective ability to think about our thinking, known as metacognition, can provide a boost in all sorts of situations, especially when acquiring knowledge and skills (Fleming, 2021a).

stack of stones

What are we attuned to? Are we in tune in our space and surroundings? What do we vibrate and resonate with? What frequency do we emit, omit, or submit? 

In her March 2023 transmutation news, Sandra Ingerman discusses how we need to work from a high enough vibration to attain or achieve the best outcome. The work requires huge personal changes and massive global change. Yet when we are easily distracted and not working from the highest place we do not produce the best outcome either.

wisdom & ignorance

The Buddhist scholar monk Bhikkhu Bodhi explains that ignorance is not just an absence of knowledge - “It is an insidious and volatile mental factor incessantly at work inserting itself into every compartment of our inner life. It distorts cognition, dominates volition, and determines the entire tone of our existence.”

Whereas ignorance obscures the true nature of things, wisdom removes the veils of distortion - enabling us to witness a situation in its essential mode of being - through our direct perception and not clouded over by filters and bias. 

burned out utility pole - photo © Igor Podgorny

Training in wisdom is rooted in the development of insight (vipassana-bhavana) - a deep and comprehensive seeing into the nature of existence which fathoms the truth of our being - from our own experience. 

bamboo dreams

We grew up where giant bamboo groves lined lazy meandering rivers. We listened to the gentle swishing and creaking in the breeze as we picnicked and snoozed in their shade. 

In much dwindled numbers, our country still uses bamboo for indigenous houses in many of our provinces. The bahay kubo is still a much loved symbol of bucolic bliss.

Read the full article at http://wonderwanderwomen.blogspot.com/2015/02/bamboo-dreams.html.