РПЦ получит 2 миллиарда рублей на укрепление единства российской нации

В 2015 году из федерального бюджета РПЦ будут выделены 958 миллионов рублей на создание духовно-просветительских центров, сообщает РБК со ссылкой на письмо заместителя министра культуры Владимира Аристархова.

Деньги предназначены для духовно-просветительских некоммерческих организаций (НКО) и будут выделены по федеральной целевой программе «Укрепление единства российской нации». Всего на поддержание духовно-просветительских НКО, по информации издания, пойдут около 2 миллиардов рублей.

Первые 1,1 миллиарда рублей были распределены в мае 2014 года между 23 организациями. Деньги получили НКО, учрежденные православными епархиями Тверской, Саратовской, Иркутской областей, Дагестана, Мордовии, Северной Осетии. Большинство НКО были зарегистрированы незадолго до начала конкурса на выделение бюджетных денег в декабре 2013 года — феврале 2014 года.

Треть выделенной на 2015 год суммы (358 миллионов рублей) пойдет на создание духовно-просветительского центра на базе здания зимней гостиницы Спасо-Преображенского Валаамского монастыря.

@темы: я другой такой страны не знаю, there's no one out there

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плакала моя шотландия

Ardvreck Castle, Loch Assynt, Sutherland, North West Highland, Scotland by Derek Beattie

@темы: фотография, my heart's in the Highlands wherever I go

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пиздец с экономикой конечно очень не вовремя
только я вроде бы решилась попытать счастья за рубежом
и хрен мне теперь

@темы: нытье

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www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/18/martin-seligma...

A Simple Exercise to Increase Well-Being and Lower Depression from Martin Seligman, Founding Father of Positive Psychology
by Maria Popova
You’ll need pen, paper, and a silencer for cynicism.

“When [a man] has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives,” Henry James wrote in his diary, “I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy.” More than a mere philosophical contemplation, however, James’s observation presages the findings of modern psychology in the quest to reverse-engineer the art-science of happiness. No one has addressed the eternal question of what begets happiness with more rigor and empirical dedication than Dr. Martin Seligman, founding father of Positive Psychology — a movement premised on countering the traditional “disease model” of psychology, which focuses on how to relieve suffering rather than how to amplify well-being. Seligman, whom I first had the pleasure of encountering at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, and who was once elected President of the American Psychological Association by the largest vote in the organization’s history, remains one of the most influential psychologists in the study of happiness. In his excellent and highly revisitable book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (public library), Seligman offers a simple practice that promises to enhance your well-being and lower your depression — the “Gratitude Visit.” Though to the cynical eye the exercise might appear both old-fashioned and overly self-helpy, it is rooted in decades of Seligman’s acclaimed research and brings to practical life some of modern psychology’s most important findings. Seligman takes us through the practice:

Close your eyes. Call up the face of someone still alive who years ago did something or said something that changed your life for the better. Someone who you never properly thanked; someone you could meet face-to-face next week. Got a face?

Gratitude can make your life happier and more satisfying. When we feel gratitude, we benefit from the pleasant memory of a positive event in our life. Also, when we express our gratitude to others, we strengthen our relationship with them. But sometimes our thank you is said so casually or quickly that it is nearly meaningless. In this exercise … you will have the opportunity to experience what it is like to express your gratitude in a thoughtful, purposeful manner.

Your task is to write a letter of gratitude to this individual and deliver it in person. The letter should be concrete and about three hundred words: be specific about what she did for you and how it affected your life. Let her know what you are doing now, and mention how you often remember what she did. Make it sing! Once you have written the testimonial, call the person and tell her you’d like to visit her, but be vague about the purpose of the meeting; this exercise is much more fun when it is a surprise. When you meet her, take your time reading your letter.

This somewhat self-consciousness-inducing exercise, Seligman promises, will make you happier and less depressed a mere month from now.

He then suggests a complementary second practice — the “What-Went-Well Exercise,” also known as “Three Blessings” — based on the interventions he and his team at the Positive Psychology Center and the University of Pennsylvania have validated in the random-assignment, placebo-controlled experiments they have been conducting since 2001 to study changes in life-satisfaction and depression levels. He contextualizes the value of this exercise amidst our worry-culture and age of anxiety:

We think too much about what goes wrong and not enough about what goes right in our lives. Of course, sometimes it makes sense to analyze bad events so that we can learn from them and avoid them in the future. However, people tend to spend more time thinking about what is bad in life than is helpful. Worse, this focus on negative events sets us up for anxiety and depression. One way to keep this from happening is to get better at thinking about and savoring what went well.

For sound evolutionary reasons, most of us are not nearly as good at dwelling on good events as we are at analyzing bad events. Those of our ancestors who spent a lot of time basking in the sunshine of good events, when they should have been preparing for disaster, did not survive the Ice Age. So to overcome our brains’ natural catastrophic bent, we need to work on and practice this skill of thinking about what went well.

He then offers his empirically tested antidote:

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well. You may use a journal or your computer to write about the events, but it is important that you have a physical record of what you wrote. The three things need not be earthshaking in importance (“My husband picked up my favorite ice cream for dessert on the way home from work today”), but they can be important (“My sister just gave birth to a healthy baby boy”).

Next to each positive event, answer the question “Why did this happen?” For example, if you wrote that your husband picked up ice cream, write “because my husband is really thoughtful sometimes” or “because I remembered to call him from work and remind him to stop by the grocery store.” Or if you wrote, “My sister just gave birth to a healthy baby boy,” you might pick as the cause … “She did everything right during her pregnancy.”

Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier.

For those of us able to quiet our inner culturally-conditioned cynic who judges and dismisses such practices, Seligman promises that we’ll be “less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.”

Flourish offers an invaluable existential boost in its entirety. Complement it with Seligman on happiness, depression, and the meaningful life, then revisit these seven superb reads on the art-science of happiness.

@темы: социальное, мотивировочная часть, не читала, потому что нынче в моей жизни места радости ва-апще нет. лайф сакс. юхуууу, псих

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@темы: star wars

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@темы: Kristen Stewart

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@темы: искусство

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@темы: шоб позырить, псих, ликвидация безграмотности

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так взрываются ракеты

[x]

@темы: гиф, поехали!, yeah, science!

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надо иметь талант - за пару часов сто раз быть то очень близко, то очень далеко от этого места
объясню потом в зависимости от того как разрешится

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блиааааааааааааа почему у меня такой талант к самосабатажу

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я так люблю своих друзей!

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@темы: фотография

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@темы: социальное, шоб позырить, yeah, science!

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@темы: про меня

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self-care list из тамблера

“1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.

2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.

3. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.

4. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.

5. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.

6. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.

7. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.

8. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.

9. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.

10. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.

11. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.

13. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.

14. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.

15. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.”
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(via elauxe)

@темы: мотивировочная часть

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В каждом втором споре всегда вылезают люди, жалующиеся на то, что, к примеру, они "не гомофобы", но "я не понимаю, почему какие-то геи сразу же принимаются рассказывать мне о своей ориентации, эй, мне плевать, я тебя даже не знаю!". Или "я бы хорошо относилась к веганам, если бы они не читали мне нотации, когда я заносила в рот кусок мяса".

У меня даже когда была активная социальная жизнь, я таких людей не встречала.
Где все их берут???

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@темы: шоб позырить, filed under: things I'll never be able to do((

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давненько не было Шотландии

@темы: зверики, фотография, my heart's in the Highlands wherever I go

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шизофрения
esquire.ru/schizophrenia-104

@темы: социальное, dr, tl, псих, ликвидация безграмотности