If you won 319 million dollars, what would you be motivated to do if money was never going to be a concern????
If I won all that money, I believe my life would change very little. I would motivated myself to use the money only for emergencies and for college. I would also motivated myself to use the money for when my mother got older and she would need a new place to live, like in a senior citizen home or something and I would also use the money for insurance for my family. But even though I had money, I would still motivate myself to go to college and get a job because it's my dream to become a teacher. Even though I would have money, I would motivate myself to use the money to go to college and get a job. I would motivated myself to becoming a teacher because it is my dream to teach the younger generation in the area of English and of course there are other reasons, but those are personal. So my life might not be any different because cool cars, new technology, awesome house, don't really appeal to me, I love where I live and I love what I have.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Altered State
Meditation has been a part of my life for a long time. I was taught that meditation can be used to help us see the correct path we want to take and also as a way to relax and think about our wrong doing as well as our rewards. Besides mediation, I have heard of sensory deprive, which is getting rid of one or more of your senses to increase the other 5 five senses, but not permentally destroying those senses.
As a child who is Mayan, I've heard stories of shamans doing this as a way to connect with the spiritual world and the living things around us. Long ago, my ancestors believed that if you enter a cave and went deep into it, you will eventually lose all 5 of your senses to open your 6th. I've heard story about this and that when a person was through with this part of the training, they felt more connected to something and felt more sensative to the things around them. They all said that while in the cave, they could not tell up from down or right to left.
I'm not sure if I really believe in sensory deprivation, but I do know that if you want to become a shaman, it is something that has to be done, while meditation is a technique that is study in my religion and is required for every follower to practice constantly. I like the way of meditation, it makes me feel light and floating. I feel as if I am not where I am sitting or practicing my meditation. I like this way because I can control my thoughts and what I want to think about.
As a child who is Mayan, I've heard stories of shamans doing this as a way to connect with the spiritual world and the living things around us. Long ago, my ancestors believed that if you enter a cave and went deep into it, you will eventually lose all 5 of your senses to open your 6th. I've heard story about this and that when a person was through with this part of the training, they felt more connected to something and felt more sensative to the things around them. They all said that while in the cave, they could not tell up from down or right to left.
I'm not sure if I really believe in sensory deprivation, but I do know that if you want to become a shaman, it is something that has to be done, while meditation is a technique that is study in my religion and is required for every follower to practice constantly. I like the way of meditation, it makes me feel light and floating. I feel as if I am not where I am sitting or practicing my meditation. I like this way because I can control my thoughts and what I want to think about.
Monday, February 14, 2011
The Lost Hour
I was surprise that while reading the lost hour was how much information we could lose. Teens and adults have difficulty sleeping, I believe because we try to cram things in one day and the more we lose sleep, the more we lose our memory. That was what really impact me while reading the packet. I was also surprised that a study showed that those in 6th grade who did not get enough sleep perfromed at a 4th grade level the next morning. For me, I get about 8.5 hours of sleep so the "lost hour" doesn't effect me but among my peers, I don't really notice anything. I know it's bad, but at this age, it seems normal for a teen to go to bed at like, 1am and I find myself the strange one for going to bed at 9 or 10. But I do see how my peers are tired the next morning and have a hard time concentrating the next day, but eventually they wake up.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sleep
"teenagers should have 9-10 hours of sleep," my mom told me when I was fourteen years old. Since then I've been worried about my health and ever since that day four years ago, I always make sure I get enough sleep.
Teenagers my age and adults don't get enough sleep because according to the articles we read in Psychology class, people have work to finish up and teenagers love to go onto social networking sites such as facebook to chat with friends or even stay up to text with friends. Teenager's brains are also different from adult brains in which a chemicle call melatonin does not take affect until later at night. Melatonin is a chemicle used to make us tired and to tell us when our bodies need sleep and the melatonin of a teenager will take effect until around 8:30 in the morning. It won't be until the teenager is a bit older that the melatonin will take effect earlier in the night.
As for myself and in my house, I'm the rare teenager that goes to be around nine or ten at night. I go to bed before anyone else in my house. My aunt and mom go to sleep around midnight or one in the morning because they work late just to make ends meet. My cousin on the other hand is the last to go to sleep but what he does is chat with friends, text, play video games, and watch TV in his room. During the winter, I find it very difficult to stay awake. My doctor has told me I have a vitamin D deficiency which is why I get very tired in the middle of the day during the winter. During the summer, when I'm outside more I have more energy but during the winter I don't. On weekends, I'll wake up at ten or eleven in the morning but after about two hours I'll go back to sleep for a nap and wake up about four to five hours later. Usually just in time for dinner and then I'll be tired by ten. That's just how my body works.
I go to bed at nine or ten to get enough sleep for the next day. I care a lot about my health, when I go to bed, what I eat, exercise, and so on. I find being awake the next day for school very important and I want to be awake so I can pay attention. No one forces me to sleep at nine or ten, I decided that on my own and since I've been doing that for four years, I really do get tired by nine or ten and I like it.
Teenagers my age and adults don't get enough sleep because according to the articles we read in Psychology class, people have work to finish up and teenagers love to go onto social networking sites such as facebook to chat with friends or even stay up to text with friends. Teenager's brains are also different from adult brains in which a chemicle call melatonin does not take affect until later at night. Melatonin is a chemicle used to make us tired and to tell us when our bodies need sleep and the melatonin of a teenager will take effect until around 8:30 in the morning. It won't be until the teenager is a bit older that the melatonin will take effect earlier in the night.
As for myself and in my house, I'm the rare teenager that goes to be around nine or ten at night. I go to bed before anyone else in my house. My aunt and mom go to sleep around midnight or one in the morning because they work late just to make ends meet. My cousin on the other hand is the last to go to sleep but what he does is chat with friends, text, play video games, and watch TV in his room. During the winter, I find it very difficult to stay awake. My doctor has told me I have a vitamin D deficiency which is why I get very tired in the middle of the day during the winter. During the summer, when I'm outside more I have more energy but during the winter I don't. On weekends, I'll wake up at ten or eleven in the morning but after about two hours I'll go back to sleep for a nap and wake up about four to five hours later. Usually just in time for dinner and then I'll be tired by ten. That's just how my body works.
I go to bed at nine or ten to get enough sleep for the next day. I care a lot about my health, when I go to bed, what I eat, exercise, and so on. I find being awake the next day for school very important and I want to be awake so I can pay attention. No one forces me to sleep at nine or ten, I decided that on my own and since I've been doing that for four years, I really do get tired by nine or ten and I like it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
3 Mechanisms I Use when Face With Difficulties
Turning aganist yourself: Whenever something bad happened in my life, weather it was in my family or a fight that included my closest friends, I often think it's my fault. There are times when a close friend of mine or even my mom are upset about something, I think I did something wrong. Also when I get a bad grade in school, I always blame myself and complain in my head such as "why didn't i study more?" or "maybe I'm stupid,". When something bad happens to me, I don't think it is anyone else's fault but my own.
Intellectualization: I usually don't make anything great a big deal. When I got accepted into college or the first time I got straight A's, I was proud, but not too proud that I would talk about it or that when I found out I was jumping up and down screaming. I was just like, "yeah, whatever," because I don't want to rub it in anyone's face. I don't like making things too big of a deal, even though it's supposed to be.
Repression: Of course with everyone, we face a challenges or an event that we don't want to remember. For a long time, these painful memories would come back to me everyday, but a couple of years ago, I started to block them from my mind. I didn't want to remember very painful events, so I would block it out as much as possible.
Intellectualization: I usually don't make anything great a big deal. When I got accepted into college or the first time I got straight A's, I was proud, but not too proud that I would talk about it or that when I found out I was jumping up and down screaming. I was just like, "yeah, whatever," because I don't want to rub it in anyone's face. I don't like making things too big of a deal, even though it's supposed to be.
Repression: Of course with everyone, we face a challenges or an event that we don't want to remember. For a long time, these painful memories would come back to me everyday, but a couple of years ago, I started to block them from my mind. I didn't want to remember very painful events, so I would block it out as much as possible.
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