Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour. This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – Empowering Approach – Human Givens from a book titled ‘Human Givens – An Empowering Approach to Emotional Health and Clear thinking’ by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell. In this book the co-founders of the human givens approach, Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell, exquisitely describe one of the most important psychological insights of our age: how we all come into the world with a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure-house of innate knowledge patterns: the ‘human givens’. We all experience these givens as physical and emotional needs, powerful forces that must be satisfactorily met in our environment if our minds and lives are to unfold and develop to their fullest potential. How these innate patterns connect up with the world, and unfold in it, determine our own and our family’s emotional health and happiness – as well as the maturity and humanity of the society we create around us. Empowering Approach – Human Givens At a basic level, all organisms seek nourishment to renew themselves and then give waste material back to the environment to be recycled again and again. Oxygen the waste gas of plant life, for example, becomes an energy source of animal life.  If we look at human beings in the same way as a gardener studies plants, we can ask: what physical, psychological and social nutriment does this creature need for the successful bringing to fruition of its innate nature? We can also look for what might be preventing these inner templates from connecting to the greater world. But a person is not a plant and we need not just material but also mental, emotional and, some would say, spiritual nourishment if we are to flourish. And, while plants ‘know’ how to grow, children and adults need structured guidance to optimise their own self development…” Excerpt from ‘Human Givens – An Empowering Approach to Emotional Health and Clear thinking’ by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell. I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link: https://www.humangivens.com/publications/human-givens-book Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s. Namaste! a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?