We often close ourselves off when unfortunate events happen in our lives; instead of letting the world soften us, we let it drive us deeper into ourselves. We try to deflect the hurt and pain by pretending it doesn’t exist, but although we can try this all we want, in the end, we can’t hide from ourselves. We need to learn to open our hearts

to the potentials of life and let the world soften us.

Whenever we start to let our fears and seriousness get the best of us, we should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior. The items listed below are ways you can open your heart more fully and completely.

Breathe into pain

Whenever a painful situation arises in your life, try to embrace it instead of running away or trying to mask the hurt. When the sadness strikes, take a deep breath and lean into it. When we run away from sadness that’s unfolding in our lives, it gets stronger and more real. We take an emotion that’s fleeting and make it a solid event, instead of something that passes through us.

By utilizing our breath we soften our experiences. If we dam them up, our lives will stagnate, but when we keep them flowing, we allow more newness and greater experiences to blossom.

Embrace the uncomfortable

We all know what that twinge(刺痛) of anxiety feels like. We know how fear feels in our bodies: the tension in our necks, the tightness in our stomachs, etc. We can practice leaning into these feelings of discomfort and let them show us where we need to go.

The initial impulse is to run away — to try and suppress these feelings by not acknowledging them. When we do this, we close ourselves off to the parts of our lives that we need to experience most. The next time you have this feeling of being truly uncomfortable, do yourself a favor and lean into the feeling. Act in spite of the fear.

Ask your heart what it wants

We’re often confused at the next step to take, making pros and cons lists until our eyes bleed and our brains are sore. Instead of always taking this approach, what if we engaged a new part of ourselves that isn’t usually involved in the decision making process?

I know we’ve all felt decisions or actions that we had to take simply due to our “gut” impulses: when asked, we can’t explain the reasons behind doing so — just a deep knowing that it had to get done. This instinct is the part of ourselves we’re approaching for answers.

To start this process, take few deep breaths then ask, “Heart, what decision should I make here? What action feels the most right?”

See what comes up, then engage and evaluate the outcome.

Title: Open Our Hearts

Background information

★Unfortunate events often 1. us deeper into ourselves;

★We can’t hide ourselves 2. the fact that we pretend not to have been hurt;

★We should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior whenever fears and seriousness 3. us.

4. to helping open our hearts

★Breathe into pain

★Try to embrace it instead of running away or trying to 5. up the hurt whenever a painful situation arises in our lives;

★Utilize our breath and we can 6.more newness and greater experiences in the future.

★Embrace the uncomfortable

★We can practice leaning into the feelings of discomfort and 7.a way out in our lives;

★Running away only8.us experiencing the parts of our lives that we need most.

★Ask your heart what it wants

★To treat the process of decision making from a different9. ;

★See what10., then engage and evaluate the outcome.

A Northern Ireland team is leading the research for a thinking computer which can sense a user's moods(情绪).Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast hope to complete the 10-million-euro project for an emotion-sensitive(感知情感功能的)computer within four years.

The aim is to make computers think and do things more like humans. And 160 researchers join in the project. The university's researchers made an agreement with the European Commission. The work may try to make “multi-modal interfaces (界面 )”which allow machines to sense and respond to the moods of the user.

Programme coordinator (协调者) Professor Roddy Cowie said while it sounded like science fiction,computers which responded to human feelings would appear.

“At the moment,our use of computers is limited by the fact that we need a keyboard and a screen to access(使用) them,”he said.

“But feelings are part of normal speech, and experience has shown that most users are deeply uncomfortable with speech interfaces that ignore them-too uncomfortable to use them very much.”

“If we can make computers more expressive, and also less challenging to use,there is a great chance to let people make full use of information technology.”

The emotion-sensitive computer would have its own “personality” and build a social relationship with the user.

“It's a fair bet that in 30 years' time, emotion-sensitive interfaces will be as much part of life as windows and mouse interfaces are now,”said Professor Cowie.

The project team believes such computers would play an important part in teaching and learning.

1.What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. Researchers at Queen's University have completed a project.

B. The research for an emotion-sensitive computer is being led by a Northern Ireland team.

C. 160 researchers have joined in the 10 million-euro project for a thinking computer.

D. Computers are playing a more and more important part in our daily life.

2.It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A. an emotion-sensitive computer has been invented and is being put into use

B. an emotion-sensitive computer cannot respond to the moods of the user

C. an emotion-sensitive computer has not been invented by the team

D. the research for an emotion-sensitive computer has not gained people's support

3.What does Professor Roddy Cowie think of the emotion-sensitive computer?

A. He thinks it is only a part of science fiction.

B. He thinks it is worth the research and it is easy to produce.

C. He believes it is impossible for the team to invent the emotion-sensitive computer.

D. He believes it can come into being.

4.In Professor Roddy Cowie's opinion,________ limits our use of computers.

A. the fact that a keyboard and a screen are needed to use computers

B. the fact that we don't know much about computers

C. the fact that feelings are part of normal speech

D. the fact that the emotion-sensitive computer has its own “personality”

5.What are emotion-sensitive computers believed to do in the future?

A. They will take the place of teachers in teaching and learning.

B. They can build a social relationship with human beings.

C. They will replace human beings and control the world.

D. They will have the same“personality”as their users.

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网