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      excerpt from  Individualized Study Plans for Very Advanced Students of Foreign Languages  by Betty Lou Leaver Chapter Two The Need for an ISP at High Levels of Foreign Language Proficiency Achieving near-native competence generally does not come by serendipity, coincidence, accident, or “a fluke,” although occasionally (rarely) such things do happen. I know of several people who have said that high level proficiency just happened to them—but even so, it was only after many, many years of study and use of the foreign language in professional situations. Most high-level language users have reported spending much time in direct instruction, study abroad, and self-study (Leaver, 2003a). The average length of time taken by native-like speakers of nearly any foreign language, based on recent research, is 17 years (Leaver and Atwell, 2002). Some learners have been able to achieve this level, however, in much shorter periods of time. Most of these learners had a ...

    excerpt from  How to Stay Calm in Chaos  by Julie Gentile Sunday Stay Present At the beginning of a new week, ask yourself, how will you stay present this week? Will you notice tightness in your shoulders or a deep sigh out through your mouth as you exhale?   Paying attention to these little details is an example of staying present. I notice them in me, too. Weekdays blending into weekends, soaring stress levels, anxious thoughts, feeling overwhelmed, scrutinizing every sneeze and sniffle, washing your hands more than you ever have, and going through multiple bottles of hand sanitizer would have anyone’s thoughts spinning. I’m living it, too. There have been a few nights where it took me hours to fall asleep (which hasn’t happened since becoming a mom, until now) because there is too much for my mind to process all at once.   A week before the stay-at-home mandate began where I live, I was driving to and from work, dropping off and picking up kids from...

  from  El Poder de lo Transpersonal  (Ustman) -       Lo Transpersonal: Un Mundo Por Descubrir (cont'd) La Psicología Transpersonal es una de las disciplinas científicas que investiga sobre las experiencias trans personales, procesos y eventos. Lajoie y Shapiro en un artículo publicado en el Journal of Transpersonal Psychology titulado “Definiciones de Psicología Transper sonal: los primeros 23 años”, hacen una investigación de la bibliografía sobre el término transpersonal destacando más de un millar de definiciones y entre tantas reseña mos aquí la presentada por A. Sutich en 1968, uno de los padres de la psicología transpersonal, en la que dice:  “Psicología Transpersonal (o ‘Cuarta fuerza’) es el título dado a una fuerza emergente en el campo de la psicología por un grupo de psicólo gos y profesionales hombres y mujeres de otros campos que están interesados en el potencial y capacidades últimas del ser humano que no tienen un lugar en la...