Using Love When Meeting Strangers

So I’ve done this a few times where I remind myself to love people especially when out in public. What I’ve noticed is that I make more eye contact with people and I feel warmer about people. I’m not so afraid of people when I try this out. The only problem is I don’t keep it up.

So it’s so easy to ignore people and get on with your day. That’s what most of us do on a daily basis especially in a white dominated society. I find white people quite distant and keeping to themselves. They aren’t in general ones to reach out to others, even to themselves.

So I will continue with this experiment just to document my feelings and mood. It’s interesting because on a daily basis I am constantly looking out for racism which could happen but it exhausting. I wonder if loving thy neighbor will help eliminate negative feelings towards strangers.i shall see tomorrow. 

David is the be in blue. We were at the Farmers market on Sunday. 

Lady Bird

At the movies waited five long years to get served. Once in the theatre we threw our ice cream rubbish on the ground. Tehehe. 

I think someone needs to remind me to use patience. Eek I need to be more mindful. Right that's for a future social experiment. 

Looking forward to see how good this movie will be.  Not sure I believe in the hype. Not holding my breath. 

Speaking Slowly Will It Improve Communication Skills?

So tomorrow I am going to an ex student's wedding in Auckland. This means we have to travel to Auckland.

The Experiment

I am going to see if I am going to be listened to more if I speak more slowly. I tend to speak average. Not too fast nor  too slowly. But I will speak much more slowly to help my anxiety levels.

I will let you know how I go.p

Wish me luck.

So the update. It's been two days.  The only times speaking slowly helped was with my darling husband. He didn't ask me three times what I was saying. Low and behold he got it first time round. A slight relief.  Only slight though. He's often annoying because he asks me to repeat 16357 times until my lips drop off. 

I was pretty useless with keeping  up the speaking slowly experiment, throughout this weekend.  I guess I speak somewhat fast normally. 

I'll give it a good whirl tonight at the restaurant and movie theatre. Fingers crossed.