“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Dalai Lama
31 oct 2013
La Psicología de la Gratitud de Robert Emmons
La gratitud es una virtud sentida y sincera
Contacto: Robert Emmons, Psicología (530) 752 8844 raemmons@ucdavis.edu
La gratitud, cuando viene del corazón, no sólo mantiene las relaciones sociales intactas sino que puede físicamente curar el cuerpo, explica en su libro donde examina esta emoción.
The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press) o La psicología de la gratitud es un libro editado por Robert Emmons de la Universidad de California en Davis y Michael McCullough de la Universidad de Miami. El tratado explora esta emoción desde diferentes puntos de vista que abarcan desde las escrituras de los filósofos griegos de la antigüedad y de la Biblia hasta los de primatólogos, psicólogos, biólogos, filósofos y neurocientíficos.
“La gratitud es una emoción universal básica que no sigue el modelo típico de otras como la amargura, los celos y el temor", opina Emmons, psicólogo que ha estudiado por los últimos seis años los efectos de la gratitud en la felicidad y el equilibrio en las vidas de muchas personas.
A diferencia de otras emociones que corresponden a expresiones faciales universales y que provocan ciertas respuestas fisiológicas (como el aumento de palpitaciones), la gratitud no puede ser reconocida inmediatamente por otras personas.
Sin embargo, aunque no es visible, muchos biólogos han podido medir conexiones psico-fisiológicas con esta emoción. Por ejemplo, cultivar emociones positivas como la apreciación y la gratitud pueden mejorar el funcionamiento del ritmo del corazón, opinan Rollin McCraty y Doc Childre, representantes de HeartMath Research Center y Quantum Intec Inc., respectivamente.
Un corazón que funciona bien envía señales a los centros cognitivos y emocionales en el cerebro. McCraty y Childre opinan que las personas que se concentran en emociones positivas como la gratitud se pueden curar físicamente.
La gratitud es un tipo de emoción compleja, y hasta sutil que requiere que las personas evalúen si es algo genuino, opinan las antropólogas Kristin E. Bonnie y Frans de Waal, ambas de la Universidad de Emory.
Bonnie y De Waal añaden que expresar agradecimiento requiere un compromiso mutuo entre “dar y tomar” y la habilidad de ser altruista en este esfuerzo recíproco. También son de la opinión que “se necesitan habilidades cognitivas avanzadas para distinguir a personas honestas y detectar a las tramposas a la vez que se lleva una cuenta mental”.
Aunque los seres humanos quizás seamos las únicas criaturas que plenamente experimentamos el sentido de quedar en deuda y de gratitud, ambas antropólogas dicen que formas primitivas de esta emoción se pueden encontrar en los animales.
Descrita como agradecimiento y apreciación de la vida, la naturaleza del sentido de gratitud se ha debatido por más de dos milenios. Aristóteles por ejemplo, creía que la emoción era una señal de debilidad incompatible con la magnanimidad porque estar endeudados con otros nos rebaja.
El agradecimiento es también la base de las enseñanzas morales judeocristianas señalan los profesores Dan McAdams de la Universidad Northwestern y Jack Bauer de la Universidad del norte de Arizona, quienes contribuyeron al libro. “Si se puede confiar en los textos que son la base del cristianismo y el judaísmo, la ingratitud fue lo que nos metió en problemas en primer lugar”, dicen estos profesores en referencia a historias fundamentales cómo el hecho de que a Adán se le haya pasado agradecerle a Dios por regalarle a Eva.
El filósofo Robert C. Roberts de la Universidad Baylor contrasta las virtudes positivas de la gratitud con tres sentimientos importantes que son la fuente de la disfunción y la tristeza: el resentimiento, el arrepentimiento y la envidia.
“Las personas agradecidas tienden a estar satisfechas con lo que tienen y por eso son menos susceptibles a emociones como la decepción, el arrepentimiento y la frustración”, opina Roberts quien también añade que al ser más felices estas personas son más amables y mantienen buenas amistades.
Roberts señala que “ se podría argumentar que la justicia de la gratitud es algo metafísico—una armonía entre la naturaleza humana y la naturaleza del universo—ya que dependemos de otros seres humanos y de Dios para recibir buenas cosas”.
El estudio de las emociones positivas como la gratitud es un campo nuevo en la psicología que comenzó a finales de los 90 a fin de estudiar el poder y las virtudes del ser humano. Uno de los fundadores de este nuevo campo es Martín Seligman de la Universidad de Pennsylvania, quien cree que “la ciencia de la gratitud, que cuenta con el liderazgo de Emmons y McCullough se ha convertido en un enfoque central de la psicología positiva en estos últimos cinco años”.
El próximo proyecto de Emmons es estudiar como se desarrolla la gratitud en los niños.
“Lo importante de la gratitud es que no solo ayuda a los individuos sino a la sociedad en general. La gratitud es una virtud cívica”, opina Emmons. http://www.gratitudexp.com/tag/robert-emmons/Robert A. Emmons, PhD, and Mike McCullough, PhD, study on gratitude, 2011, http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/pay_it_forward; and The Psychology of Gratitude, 1st ed., Robert A. Emmons Michael E, McCullough (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Learning
to give to yourself is important in maintaining the flow of abundance.
If you cannot give to yourself, there will be a block in the flow, and
eventually you will feel it. For instance, healers may burn themselves
out if they are always giving to others but are unable to give
themselves the time they need to feel nurtured and recharge their
energy. You may start experiencing lack, then have to put extraordinary
amounts of time and energy into yourself. Or, you may feel depleted on
an energy level from your work and lose your enthusiasm for what you are
doing.
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
30 oct 2013
Cuando una crisis golpea tu negocio
Cuando una crisis golpea tu negocio, debes dejar a un lado el miedo, el enojo y la ansiedad que normalmente se generan para enfrentarlo con liderazgo.
Aunque ésa es una orden difícil cuando existen demasiados problemas, aprender cómo conservar la calma en situaciones de crisis inspirará confianza entre tus empleados y te ayudará a encontrar soluciones efectivas.
En momentos de estrés, la mayoría de las personas tiene sentimientos negativos o que los sacan de control o que hacen que se escondan bajo la alfombra. Pero ninguno de los dos métodos funciona. “Lo peor que puedes hacer es suprimir tus sentimientos”, dice Allison Troy, psicóloga en Franklin & Marshall College, quien estudia la regulación de las emociones.
No debes dejar que las crisis se lleven lo mejor de ti. Los líderes fuertes reconocen sus sentimientos y los manejan sin perder de vista lo importante; arreglando el problema rápida y eficientemente.
Para mantener la calma en una crisis, aplica estas sencillas estrategias:
1. Ve el problema como alguien externo
La mejor forma de difuminar una situación emocional es tomar distancia del problema. “La distancia te ayuda a ver el panorama general”, dice Ethan Kroos, director de Emotional and Self-Control Laboratory de la Universidad de Michigan. “Puedes pensar más claramente cuando no estás inmerso en los detalles”.
Como líder del negocio siempre estarás en el centro del problema, así que necesitarás ‘engañar’ a tu cerebro a pensar que tienes más distancia que la real. Para hacerlo, imagina que un colega se acercó a ti para pedirte consejo sobre una situación. ¿Qué le preguntarías? ¿Qué consejo le darías? ¿Cómo lo motivarías a enfrentarla? Al cambiar tu perspectiva podrás encontrar soluciones potenciales con mayor claridad.
2. Recuerda obstáculos del pasado que superaste
Cuando diriges tu propio negocio, inevitablemente enfrentarás crisis con consecuencias graves. Esa presión puede provocar ansiedad, la cual se acompaña de miedo e inseguridad que disminuyen tu habilidad para liderar efectivamente.
“Si sientes que no tienes los recursos para manejar la situación, convéncete de que sí los tienes”, dice Troy. Contrarresta los pensamientos negativos con recuerdos específicos de crisis pasadas que superaste y dite a ti mismo que puedes superar ésta también. Como el discurso que un entrenador daría al equipo antes del partido o en el medio tiempo, debes recordarte que tienes la fortaleza y la capacidad para superar la crisis.
3. Toma acción
En una crisis, no debes enfocarte en las cosas que no puedes cambiar, ya que eso sólo generará más ansiedad. Mejor, enfócate en lo que sí puedes hacer y pon manos a la obra. “Haz algo activo para resolver el problema, aun cuando no estés seguro de que vaya a funcionar”, dice Troy.
Empieza por identificar qué partes del problema puedes controlar, después busca una acción que puedas tomar inmediatamente. Incluso las pequeñas acciones, como llamar a alguien para pedirle su consejo, te harán sentir productivo y ayudarán a disminuir la ansiedad.
Fuente:soyentrepreneur.com
Aunque ésa es una orden difícil cuando existen demasiados problemas, aprender cómo conservar la calma en situaciones de crisis inspirará confianza entre tus empleados y te ayudará a encontrar soluciones efectivas.
En momentos de estrés, la mayoría de las personas tiene sentimientos negativos o que los sacan de control o que hacen que se escondan bajo la alfombra. Pero ninguno de los dos métodos funciona. “Lo peor que puedes hacer es suprimir tus sentimientos”, dice Allison Troy, psicóloga en Franklin & Marshall College, quien estudia la regulación de las emociones.
No debes dejar que las crisis se lleven lo mejor de ti. Los líderes fuertes reconocen sus sentimientos y los manejan sin perder de vista lo importante; arreglando el problema rápida y eficientemente.
Para mantener la calma en una crisis, aplica estas sencillas estrategias:
1. Ve el problema como alguien externo
La mejor forma de difuminar una situación emocional es tomar distancia del problema. “La distancia te ayuda a ver el panorama general”, dice Ethan Kroos, director de Emotional and Self-Control Laboratory de la Universidad de Michigan. “Puedes pensar más claramente cuando no estás inmerso en los detalles”.
Como líder del negocio siempre estarás en el centro del problema, así que necesitarás ‘engañar’ a tu cerebro a pensar que tienes más distancia que la real. Para hacerlo, imagina que un colega se acercó a ti para pedirte consejo sobre una situación. ¿Qué le preguntarías? ¿Qué consejo le darías? ¿Cómo lo motivarías a enfrentarla? Al cambiar tu perspectiva podrás encontrar soluciones potenciales con mayor claridad.
2. Recuerda obstáculos del pasado que superaste
Cuando diriges tu propio negocio, inevitablemente enfrentarás crisis con consecuencias graves. Esa presión puede provocar ansiedad, la cual se acompaña de miedo e inseguridad que disminuyen tu habilidad para liderar efectivamente.
“Si sientes que no tienes los recursos para manejar la situación, convéncete de que sí los tienes”, dice Troy. Contrarresta los pensamientos negativos con recuerdos específicos de crisis pasadas que superaste y dite a ti mismo que puedes superar ésta también. Como el discurso que un entrenador daría al equipo antes del partido o en el medio tiempo, debes recordarte que tienes la fortaleza y la capacidad para superar la crisis.
3. Toma acción
En una crisis, no debes enfocarte en las cosas que no puedes cambiar, ya que eso sólo generará más ansiedad. Mejor, enfócate en lo que sí puedes hacer y pon manos a la obra. “Haz algo activo para resolver el problema, aun cuando no estés seguro de que vaya a funcionar”, dice Troy.
Empieza por identificar qué partes del problema puedes controlar, después busca una acción que puedas tomar inmediatamente. Incluso las pequeñas acciones, como llamar a alguien para pedirle su consejo, te harán sentir productivo y ayudarán a disminuir la ansiedad.
Fuente:soyentrepreneur.com
La gratitud genera beneficios físicos y psicosociales
La práctica de agradecer todo lo bueno que nos ocurre en la vida mejora la salud.
"La gratitud es realmente sorprendente porque genera beneficios físicos y psicosociales", esta es la conclusión de los doctores Blaire y Rita Justice, investigadores médicos del Health Science Center de la Universidad de Texas. La práctica de agradecer todo lo bueno que nos ocurre en la vida tiene múltiples beneficios en la salud:
-Mejora el sistema inmunitario de las personas, tanto si están sanas como enfermas.
-Reduce los síntomas físicos, como dolores de cabeza, tos, náuseas o dolor.
-Incrementa los niveles de alerta, vitalidad, atención y energía.
-Reduce el estrés, la ansiedad, la presión arterial y la depresión, así como la ira y el resentimiento.
-Ayuda aumentar las conexiones sociales positivas.
Estos y otros beneficios habían sido evidenciados con anterioridad durante un experimento llevado a cabo por los doctores Robert Emmons –director de Journal of Positive Psychology y autor del libro Thanks!– y McCullough, de la Universidad de Miami. Durante dicho experimento, el grupo de personas al que se le pidió que tuviera durante el día más pensamientos de agradecimiento tuvieron menos problemas de salud y se sentían más satisfechos y felices tras el experimento, en comparación con los participantes de la investigación a los que no se pedía hacer nada en especial.
No son los únicos estudios que se han hecho sobre la gratitud, pero sí confirman lo que otros médicos habían concluido: que el agradecimiento diario mejora la calidad de vida en general: el sueño es más reparador y por la mañana se tiene un despertar más energético, así como más optimismo, más satisfacción con la vida y una mayor conexión con los demás.
http://www.elcorreodelsol.com/articulo/la-gratitud-genera-beneficios-fisicos-y-psicosociales
"La gratitud es realmente sorprendente porque genera beneficios físicos y psicosociales", esta es la conclusión de los doctores Blaire y Rita Justice, investigadores médicos del Health Science Center de la Universidad de Texas. La práctica de agradecer todo lo bueno que nos ocurre en la vida tiene múltiples beneficios en la salud:
-Mejora el sistema inmunitario de las personas, tanto si están sanas como enfermas.
-Reduce los síntomas físicos, como dolores de cabeza, tos, náuseas o dolor.
-Incrementa los niveles de alerta, vitalidad, atención y energía.
-Reduce el estrés, la ansiedad, la presión arterial y la depresión, así como la ira y el resentimiento.
-Ayuda aumentar las conexiones sociales positivas.
Estos y otros beneficios habían sido evidenciados con anterioridad durante un experimento llevado a cabo por los doctores Robert Emmons –director de Journal of Positive Psychology y autor del libro Thanks!– y McCullough, de la Universidad de Miami. Durante dicho experimento, el grupo de personas al que se le pidió que tuviera durante el día más pensamientos de agradecimiento tuvieron menos problemas de salud y se sentían más satisfechos y felices tras el experimento, en comparación con los participantes de la investigación a los que no se pedía hacer nada en especial.
No son los únicos estudios que se han hecho sobre la gratitud, pero sí confirman lo que otros médicos habían concluido: que el agradecimiento diario mejora la calidad de vida en general: el sueño es más reparador y por la mañana se tiene un despertar más energético, así como más optimismo, más satisfacción con la vida y una mayor conexión con los demás.
http://www.elcorreodelsol.com/articulo/la-gratitud-genera-beneficios-fisicos-y-psicosociales
Teach this triple truth to all- A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
”Teach this triple truth to all- A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” – Buddha
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
—Dalai Lama
—Dalai Lama
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
—Carl Jung
—Carl Jung
29 oct 2013
What would you be doing differently if you had faith in your choices?
What would you be doing differently
if you had faith in your choices?
~ Alan Cohen
if you had faith in your choices?
~ Alan Cohen
28 oct 2013
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
—Rumi
—Rumi
Let South Africa Show the World How to Forgive - — Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu
Let South Africa Show the World How to Forgive
— Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, was chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
This article was adapted from the speech he gave at the University of Toronto upon the receipt of an honorary doctoral degree.
If you asked even the most sober students of South African affairs what they thought was going to happen to South Africa a few years ago, almost universally they predicted that the most ghastly catastrophe would befall us; that as sure as anything, we would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath.
It did not happen. Instead, the world watched with amazement, indeed awe, at the long lines of South Africans of all races, snaking their way to their polling booths on April 27, 1994. And they thrilled as they witnessed Nelson Mandela being inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa on May 10, 1994. Nearly everyone described what they were witnessing -- a virtually bloodless, reasonably peaceful transition from injustice and oppression to freedom and democracy -- as a miracle.
When the disaster did not overtake us, there were those who said, “Wait until a black-led government takes over. Then these blacks who have suffered so grievously in the past will engage in the most fearful orgy of revenge and retribution against the whites.”
Well, that prediction too was not fulfilled. Instead the world saw something quite unprecedented. They saw the process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, when perpetrators of some of the most gruesome atrocities were given amnesty in exchange for a full disclosure of the facts of the offence. Instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
We South Africans have not done too badly. It is sometimes said of newly democratic countries that their first elections too frequently end up being their last. Well, we have already had a fairly uneventful second general election and have witnessed the transition from a charismatic, first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, to the more pragmatic, pipe- smoking Thabo Mbeki. The turmoil and instability that many feared would accompany these crucial events have not occurred. Why? Well, first, you have prayed for us and, if miracles had to happen anywhere, South Africa was a prime site for a miracle.
And we have been richly blessed to have had at such a critical time in our history a Nelson Mandela. He was imprisoned for 27 years; most expected that when he emerged, he would be riddled with a lust for retribution. But the world has been amazed; instead of spewing calls for revenge, he urged his own people to work for reconciliation -- and invited his former jailer to attend his presidential inauguration as a VIP guest.
Wonderfully, Mr. Mandela has not been the only person committed to forgiveness and reconciliation. Less well-known people (in my theology no one is “ordinary,” for each one of us is created in the image of God) are the real heroes and heroines of our struggle.
There was a Mrs. Savage who was injured in a hand-grenade attack by one of the liberation movements. She was so badly injured that her children bathed her, clothed her, and fed her. She could not go through a security checkpoint at the airport because she still had shrapnel in her and all sorts of alarms would have been set off. She told us [at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission] that she would like to meet the perpetrator -- she, a white woman, and he almost certainly, a black perpetrator, in the spirit of forgiveness. She would like to forgive him and then extraordinarily she added, “And I hope he forgives me.” Now that is almost mind-boggling.
The daughter of one of four African National Congress activists, whom the police ambushed and then killed gruesomely -- their mutilated bodies were found in their burnt-out car -- came to tell her story. She said the police were still harassing her mother and her children, even after their father had died. When she finished, I asked her whether she would be able to forgive those who had done this. We were meeting in a city hall packed to the rafters. You could hear the proverbial pin drop, as she replied, “We would like to forgive. We just want to know whom to forgive.”
Our country did not go the way of Nuremberg, to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to trial. After the Second World War, the Allies had defeated the Germans and could apply so-called “victor’s justice.” In our case, neither the apartheid government nor the liberation movements had defeated their adversary. Our country could not afford the exorbitant cost of trials, even if we could have held them and had the evidence to satisfy a court of law.
Our country rejected the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. It victimized the victims a second time around and was really trying to let bygones be bygones, when in fact they never become bygones. Certainly, Gen. Pinochet now knows you can’t act with reckless impunity and hope to get away with it forever. This is a moral universe.
Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe in Ubuntu -- the essence of being human, that idea that we are all caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, “A person is a person through other persons.” I need you in order to be me and you need me in order to be you.
The greatest good is communal corporate harmony, and resentment, anger, revenge are corrosive of this harmony. To nurse grudges and resentment is bad for your blood pressure. Psychologists have now found that to forgive is good for our personal, physical, psychic health, as well as our health as a community, as a society. We discovered that people experienced healing through telling their stories. The process opened wounds that were festering. We cleansed them, poured ointment on them, and knew they would heal. A young man who had been blinded by police action in his township came to tell us the story of that event. When he finished he was asked how he felt now, and he said, “You have given me back my eyes.”
Retribution leads to a cycle of reprisal, leading to counter-reprisal in an inexorable movement, as in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and in the former Yugoslavia. The only thing that can break that cycle, making possible a new beginning, is forgiveness. Without forgiveness there is no future.
We have been appalled at the depths of depravity revealed by the testimonies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Yes, we human beings have a remarkable capacity for evil -- we have refined ways of being mean and nasty to one another. There have been genocides, holocausts, slavery, racism, wars, oppression and injustice.
But that, mercifully, is not the whole story about us. We were exhilarated as we heard people who had suffered grievously, who by rights should have been baying for the blood of their tormentors, utter words of forgiveness, reveal an extraordinary willingness to work for reconciliation, demonstrating magnanimity and nobility of spirit.
Yes, wonderfully, exhilaratingly, we have this extraordinary capacity for good. Fundamentally, we are good; we are made for love, for compassion, for caring, for sharing, for peace and reconciliation, for transcendence, for the beautiful, for the true and the good.
Who could have imagined that South Africa would be an example of anything but the most awful ghastliness? And now we see God’s sense of humour, for God has chosen this unlikely lot and set us up as some kind of paradigm, as some kind of model that just might provide the world with a viable way of dealing with post-conflict, post-repression periods. We have not been particularly virtuous, anything but. We are not particularly smart -- precisely. God wants to point at us as this unlikely bunch and say to the trouble spots of the world, “Look at them. They had a nightmare called apartheid. It has ended. Your nightmare, too, will end. They used to have what people regarded as an intractable problem. They are now resolving it. Nowhere in the world can people ever again claim that their problems are intractable.” There is hope for all of us.
— Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, was chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
This article was adapted from the speech he gave at the University of Toronto upon the receipt of an honorary doctoral degree.
If you asked even the most sober students of South African affairs what they thought was going to happen to South Africa a few years ago, almost universally they predicted that the most ghastly catastrophe would befall us; that as sure as anything, we would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath.
It did not happen. Instead, the world watched with amazement, indeed awe, at the long lines of South Africans of all races, snaking their way to their polling booths on April 27, 1994. And they thrilled as they witnessed Nelson Mandela being inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa on May 10, 1994. Nearly everyone described what they were witnessing -- a virtually bloodless, reasonably peaceful transition from injustice and oppression to freedom and democracy -- as a miracle.
When the disaster did not overtake us, there were those who said, “Wait until a black-led government takes over. Then these blacks who have suffered so grievously in the past will engage in the most fearful orgy of revenge and retribution against the whites.”
Well, that prediction too was not fulfilled. Instead the world saw something quite unprecedented. They saw the process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, when perpetrators of some of the most gruesome atrocities were given amnesty in exchange for a full disclosure of the facts of the offence. Instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
We South Africans have not done too badly. It is sometimes said of newly democratic countries that their first elections too frequently end up being their last. Well, we have already had a fairly uneventful second general election and have witnessed the transition from a charismatic, first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, to the more pragmatic, pipe- smoking Thabo Mbeki. The turmoil and instability that many feared would accompany these crucial events have not occurred. Why? Well, first, you have prayed for us and, if miracles had to happen anywhere, South Africa was a prime site for a miracle.
And we have been richly blessed to have had at such a critical time in our history a Nelson Mandela. He was imprisoned for 27 years; most expected that when he emerged, he would be riddled with a lust for retribution. But the world has been amazed; instead of spewing calls for revenge, he urged his own people to work for reconciliation -- and invited his former jailer to attend his presidential inauguration as a VIP guest.
Wonderfully, Mr. Mandela has not been the only person committed to forgiveness and reconciliation. Less well-known people (in my theology no one is “ordinary,” for each one of us is created in the image of God) are the real heroes and heroines of our struggle.
There was a Mrs. Savage who was injured in a hand-grenade attack by one of the liberation movements. She was so badly injured that her children bathed her, clothed her, and fed her. She could not go through a security checkpoint at the airport because she still had shrapnel in her and all sorts of alarms would have been set off. She told us [at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission] that she would like to meet the perpetrator -- she, a white woman, and he almost certainly, a black perpetrator, in the spirit of forgiveness. She would like to forgive him and then extraordinarily she added, “And I hope he forgives me.” Now that is almost mind-boggling.
The daughter of one of four African National Congress activists, whom the police ambushed and then killed gruesomely -- their mutilated bodies were found in their burnt-out car -- came to tell her story. She said the police were still harassing her mother and her children, even after their father had died. When she finished, I asked her whether she would be able to forgive those who had done this. We were meeting in a city hall packed to the rafters. You could hear the proverbial pin drop, as she replied, “We would like to forgive. We just want to know whom to forgive.”
Our country did not go the way of Nuremberg, to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to trial. After the Second World War, the Allies had defeated the Germans and could apply so-called “victor’s justice.” In our case, neither the apartheid government nor the liberation movements had defeated their adversary. Our country could not afford the exorbitant cost of trials, even if we could have held them and had the evidence to satisfy a court of law.
Our country rejected the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. It victimized the victims a second time around and was really trying to let bygones be bygones, when in fact they never become bygones. Certainly, Gen. Pinochet now knows you can’t act with reckless impunity and hope to get away with it forever. This is a moral universe.
Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe in Ubuntu -- the essence of being human, that idea that we are all caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, “A person is a person through other persons.” I need you in order to be me and you need me in order to be you.
The greatest good is communal corporate harmony, and resentment, anger, revenge are corrosive of this harmony. To nurse grudges and resentment is bad for your blood pressure. Psychologists have now found that to forgive is good for our personal, physical, psychic health, as well as our health as a community, as a society. We discovered that people experienced healing through telling their stories. The process opened wounds that were festering. We cleansed them, poured ointment on them, and knew they would heal. A young man who had been blinded by police action in his township came to tell us the story of that event. When he finished he was asked how he felt now, and he said, “You have given me back my eyes.”
Retribution leads to a cycle of reprisal, leading to counter-reprisal in an inexorable movement, as in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and in the former Yugoslavia. The only thing that can break that cycle, making possible a new beginning, is forgiveness. Without forgiveness there is no future.
We have been appalled at the depths of depravity revealed by the testimonies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Yes, we human beings have a remarkable capacity for evil -- we have refined ways of being mean and nasty to one another. There have been genocides, holocausts, slavery, racism, wars, oppression and injustice.
But that, mercifully, is not the whole story about us. We were exhilarated as we heard people who had suffered grievously, who by rights should have been baying for the blood of their tormentors, utter words of forgiveness, reveal an extraordinary willingness to work for reconciliation, demonstrating magnanimity and nobility of spirit.
Yes, wonderfully, exhilaratingly, we have this extraordinary capacity for good. Fundamentally, we are good; we are made for love, for compassion, for caring, for sharing, for peace and reconciliation, for transcendence, for the beautiful, for the true and the good.
Who could have imagined that South Africa would be an example of anything but the most awful ghastliness? And now we see God’s sense of humour, for God has chosen this unlikely lot and set us up as some kind of paradigm, as some kind of model that just might provide the world with a viable way of dealing with post-conflict, post-repression periods. We have not been particularly virtuous, anything but. We are not particularly smart -- precisely. God wants to point at us as this unlikely bunch and say to the trouble spots of the world, “Look at them. They had a nightmare called apartheid. It has ended. Your nightmare, too, will end. They used to have what people regarded as an intractable problem. They are now resolving it. Nowhere in the world can people ever again claim that their problems are intractable.” There is hope for all of us.
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
—Francois de la Rochefoucauld
—Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When I chased after money, I never had enough.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
—Wayne Dyer
—Wayne Dyer
Archangel Gabriel
http://trinityesoterics.com/
Daily Message ~ Sunday October 27, 2013
The majority of human beings, at one time or another, will find themselves in a state of energetic crisis. If you are going through such a time, here are some suggestions to assist.
Get back to basics. Practice basic self care. Bathe or shower every day (immersing yourself in salt water can be very helpful). Make sure you get at least 10 minutes of sun on your bare skin (no sunblock). Stay in the Now moment as much as possible. If you have what feels like a monumental task in front of you, simply focus on one thing at a time, not the entire pile. Eat whole and healthy foods and drink plenty of water. Work with your guides! There is a universe filled with helpers whose greatest joy is to assist you. “God is guiding me now” is a powerful affirmation to help you feel that support. Surrender. Give clear feedback to the universe in the form of gratitude. Meditate. Use self awareness to get in touch with what it is you need and don’t be afraid to ask for it. Get assistance from both traditional and/or alternative treatments if required.
Dear Ones, trauma serves the purpose of getting your attention. It occurs to facilitate massive change in your life, not to punish you. You are never, ever alone to navigate any time in your life, as the entire universe is cheering you on and ready to provide whatever you need to assist you. Be open to the help that is available, both physical and non-physical. Know that these times, while difficult, are always for your highest good and are powerful catalysts for empowered change in your lives. Be kind and gentle with yourselves, knowing that a brand new level of beauty is about to emerge. ~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Sunday October 27, 2013
The majority of human beings, at one time or another, will find themselves in a state of energetic crisis. If you are going through such a time, here are some suggestions to assist.
Get back to basics. Practice basic self care. Bathe or shower every day (immersing yourself in salt water can be very helpful). Make sure you get at least 10 minutes of sun on your bare skin (no sunblock). Stay in the Now moment as much as possible. If you have what feels like a monumental task in front of you, simply focus on one thing at a time, not the entire pile. Eat whole and healthy foods and drink plenty of water. Work with your guides! There is a universe filled with helpers whose greatest joy is to assist you. “God is guiding me now” is a powerful affirmation to help you feel that support. Surrender. Give clear feedback to the universe in the form of gratitude. Meditate. Use self awareness to get in touch with what it is you need and don’t be afraid to ask for it. Get assistance from both traditional and/or alternative treatments if required.
Dear Ones, trauma serves the purpose of getting your attention. It occurs to facilitate massive change in your life, not to punish you. You are never, ever alone to navigate any time in your life, as the entire universe is cheering you on and ready to provide whatever you need to assist you. Be open to the help that is available, both physical and non-physical. Know that these times, while difficult, are always for your highest good and are powerful catalysts for empowered change in your lives. Be kind and gentle with yourselves, knowing that a brand new level of beauty is about to emerge. ~Archangel Gabriel
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
—Margaret Bonnano
—Margaret Bonnano
27 oct 2013
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
—Julia Cameron
—Julia Cameron
You perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
—Brian Tracy
—Brian Tracy
Hábitos saludables
Una dieta saludable y practicar ejercicio físico de forma regular es importante, pero existen otros hábitos con clara incidencia en nuestro estado de salud y que, sin embargo, casi no se mencionan a la hora de revisar un estilo de vida saludable. "Pasar 10 horas al día en un trabajo que nos resulta insoportable puede ser mucho peor para la salud que alimentarse a base de fast food" señala Inés Montiel, Médico y Facilitadora del Curso de Coaching de Salud de TISOC. Además, la dieta y el ejercicio son dos aspectos importantes pero no los únicos que determinan ese concepto tan amplio que es la salud. "Hablar de salud es hablar de equilibrio y de bienestar".
Otros hábitos saludables:
1. Duerme sin estar pendiente del reloj. No se trata de dormir entre 7 y 8 horas diarias, ni de acostarte antes de una determinada hora, sino de dormir lo suficiente en cada caso. En esto del descanso no existen las reglas estandarizadas ni los hábitos inamovibles. La clave es seguir los dictados de nuestro cuerpo.
2. Piénsate muy bien lo que piensas. ¿Qué tipo de mensajes te estás lanzando a ti mismo desde que te levantas? Aunque no seas consciente de ellos, eres un reflejo inmediato de lo que estás pensando y tu cuerpo reacciona constantemente a lo que pasa por tu cabeza. Plantearse las cosas en positivo, relativizarlas y pensar que tienes control sobre lo que te sucede son prácticas que hacen que tu sistema inmunológico y aparato circulatorio estén más fuertes.
3. Haz que la jornada de trabajo sea lo más agradable posible. Ocho horas al día (como mínimo) es mucho tiempo al cabo de toda una vida de trabajo. Te interesa llevarte lo mejor posible con tu trabajo. Selecciona los aspectos de tu vida profesional que más te gustan y piensa en ellos regularmente. Saborea y disfruta lo que te hace ser y estar mejor en tu trabajo. Así estarás poniendo el foco en lo bueno y dejando en un segundo plano lo malo.
4. Pregúntale a tu cuerpo lo que quiere comer. Comemos y bebemos más de lo que necesitamos, y lo hacemos casi por inercia, sin disfrutar de la comida y sin ser conscientes de si tenemos hambre o sed. Habrá días en los que te apetezca una hamburguesa y otros en los que el cuerpo pida alimentos frescos o incluso un poco de ayuno. Algo tan sencillo como escuchar a tu cuerpo te puede llevar a realizar una auténtica dieta de desintoxicación casi sin proponértelo.
5. Elige tus relaciones. Curiosamente nuestra cultura nos prepara para elegir una de entre las 20 mermeladas, casi idénticas, del supermercado, pero no nos enseña a discriminar las personas con las que nos relacionamos. Nuestra salud nos agradecerá que elijamos conscientemente y bloqueemos aquellas que no nos convengan. Para aquellas relaciones tóxicas que no podemos o no queremos apartar de nuestras vidas, se pueden limitar los tiempos de contacto y acotar los espacios de nuestros encuentros.
6. Asume el control de tu salud. Tendemos a pensar que nuestro papel ante la enfermedad es puramente pasivo y que cuando nos ponemos malos lo único que podemos hacer es esperar y seguir los dictados del médico. Sin embargo, en el área de la salud, como en otros muchos otros aspectos de la vida, tenemos mucha más responsabilidad sobre lo que nos sucede de la que nos gustaría. Si elegimos cuidar de nuestro cuerpo seguramente nos recuperaremos mucho antes y enfermaremos menos.
7. Tómate la vida con un poco de humor. El optimismo y la risa son factores muy poderosos e íntimamente ligados a la salud y al bienestar. A nivel físico una simple risa nos oxigena, amplía nuestra capacidad pulmonar, fortalece el corazón, libera endorfinas, fortalece nuestras defensas. Desde el punto de vista psicológico, nos libera del estrés, hace que relativicemos las cosas y reduce la angustia. Y respecto a las relaciones sociales, nos acerca a las personas que tenemos alrededor y estimula la creatividad del equipo.
http://www.estarbien.com/cuerpo-y-mente/2013-10-16/vivir-bien/un-trabajo-estresante-es-peor-para-la-salud-que-la-comida-rapida/noticia.aspx?idart=782646
Otros hábitos saludables:
1. Duerme sin estar pendiente del reloj. No se trata de dormir entre 7 y 8 horas diarias, ni de acostarte antes de una determinada hora, sino de dormir lo suficiente en cada caso. En esto del descanso no existen las reglas estandarizadas ni los hábitos inamovibles. La clave es seguir los dictados de nuestro cuerpo.
2. Piénsate muy bien lo que piensas. ¿Qué tipo de mensajes te estás lanzando a ti mismo desde que te levantas? Aunque no seas consciente de ellos, eres un reflejo inmediato de lo que estás pensando y tu cuerpo reacciona constantemente a lo que pasa por tu cabeza. Plantearse las cosas en positivo, relativizarlas y pensar que tienes control sobre lo que te sucede son prácticas que hacen que tu sistema inmunológico y aparato circulatorio estén más fuertes.
3. Haz que la jornada de trabajo sea lo más agradable posible. Ocho horas al día (como mínimo) es mucho tiempo al cabo de toda una vida de trabajo. Te interesa llevarte lo mejor posible con tu trabajo. Selecciona los aspectos de tu vida profesional que más te gustan y piensa en ellos regularmente. Saborea y disfruta lo que te hace ser y estar mejor en tu trabajo. Así estarás poniendo el foco en lo bueno y dejando en un segundo plano lo malo.
4. Pregúntale a tu cuerpo lo que quiere comer. Comemos y bebemos más de lo que necesitamos, y lo hacemos casi por inercia, sin disfrutar de la comida y sin ser conscientes de si tenemos hambre o sed. Habrá días en los que te apetezca una hamburguesa y otros en los que el cuerpo pida alimentos frescos o incluso un poco de ayuno. Algo tan sencillo como escuchar a tu cuerpo te puede llevar a realizar una auténtica dieta de desintoxicación casi sin proponértelo.
5. Elige tus relaciones. Curiosamente nuestra cultura nos prepara para elegir una de entre las 20 mermeladas, casi idénticas, del supermercado, pero no nos enseña a discriminar las personas con las que nos relacionamos. Nuestra salud nos agradecerá que elijamos conscientemente y bloqueemos aquellas que no nos convengan. Para aquellas relaciones tóxicas que no podemos o no queremos apartar de nuestras vidas, se pueden limitar los tiempos de contacto y acotar los espacios de nuestros encuentros.
6. Asume el control de tu salud. Tendemos a pensar que nuestro papel ante la enfermedad es puramente pasivo y que cuando nos ponemos malos lo único que podemos hacer es esperar y seguir los dictados del médico. Sin embargo, en el área de la salud, como en otros muchos otros aspectos de la vida, tenemos mucha más responsabilidad sobre lo que nos sucede de la que nos gustaría. Si elegimos cuidar de nuestro cuerpo seguramente nos recuperaremos mucho antes y enfermaremos menos.
7. Tómate la vida con un poco de humor. El optimismo y la risa son factores muy poderosos e íntimamente ligados a la salud y al bienestar. A nivel físico una simple risa nos oxigena, amplía nuestra capacidad pulmonar, fortalece el corazón, libera endorfinas, fortalece nuestras defensas. Desde el punto de vista psicológico, nos libera del estrés, hace que relativicemos las cosas y reduce la angustia. Y respecto a las relaciones sociales, nos acerca a las personas que tenemos alrededor y estimula la creatividad del equipo.
http://www.estarbien.com/cuerpo-y-mente/2013-10-16/vivir-bien/un-trabajo-estresante-es-peor-para-la-salud-que-la-comida-rapida/noticia.aspx?idart=782646
26 oct 2013
Daily Message ~ Saturday October 26, 2013
http://trinityesoterics.com
Daily Message ~ Saturday October 26, 2013
We invite you to examine what you consider to be your biggest stumbling block in your life expression. What is it? Is it really an insurmountable challenge, or have you fallen into the habit of thinking it is? Have you released it for healing by surrendering it to Source? Do you have gratitude for the area of your life that it affects? Do you live your life around this block, energetically supporting its impact on you even more? Do your thoughts and belief systems continue to support this situation? How would your life be different without this perceived problem? What gifts or experiences has this situation brought to your life? Does it serve a purpose in your life any longer? Once you have asked yourself all these questions, we wish for you to create a clear picture in your mind of your life with complete resolution to whatever this may be, living wholly and completely and joyously. Simply announce with your inner voice to the universe that this is your new preference, and you are now surrendering into its creation. Stay in the flow with the complete assurance and faith that this situation is now resolved and focus on what you wish to create anew. Surrender, flow and gratitude, along with your intention for empowered change, is a powerful combination you can use to update any area of your life. ~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Saturday October 26, 2013
We invite you to examine what you consider to be your biggest stumbling block in your life expression. What is it? Is it really an insurmountable challenge, or have you fallen into the habit of thinking it is? Have you released it for healing by surrendering it to Source? Do you have gratitude for the area of your life that it affects? Do you live your life around this block, energetically supporting its impact on you even more? Do your thoughts and belief systems continue to support this situation? How would your life be different without this perceived problem? What gifts or experiences has this situation brought to your life? Does it serve a purpose in your life any longer? Once you have asked yourself all these questions, we wish for you to create a clear picture in your mind of your life with complete resolution to whatever this may be, living wholly and completely and joyously. Simply announce with your inner voice to the universe that this is your new preference, and you are now surrendering into its creation. Stay in the flow with the complete assurance and faith that this situation is now resolved and focus on what you wish to create anew. Surrender, flow and gratitude, along with your intention for empowered change, is a powerful combination you can use to update any area of your life. ~Archangel Gabriel
25 oct 2013
The best gurus are disguised as regular people.
The best gurus are disguised as regular people.
~ Alan Cohen
Heart's Prayer
Before you dedicate your life
to a person, a marriage, a family;
to a corporation, a political party, a peace campaign;
to a religion, a revolution, a spiritual path;
make one other dedication first.
First dedicate yourself to LOVE.
Decide to let Love be your intention, your purpose and your point.
And then let Love inspire you,
support you, and guide you
in every other dedication
you make thereafter.
—Robert Holden
24 oct 2013
Tener un propósito en la vida protege contra el mal de Alzheimer
http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2012/659306.html
Tener un objetivo en la vida puede ayudar a reducir el riesgo de una persona a desarrollar la enfermedad de Alzheimer, según un estudio realizado por investigadores del Centro Médico de la Universidad Rush (UR) de Chicago.
El estudio, publicado en la edición de mayo de la revista Archives of General Psychiatry, señaló que las personas que se han trazado objetivos en la vida mostraron mayores conocimientos respecto a los que no tienen propósitos.
Incluso las personas del primer grupo muestran una menor acumulación de placas y nudos neurofibrilares en su cerebro.
“Estos hallazgos sugieren que quienes tienen mayores motivaciones en la vida se protegen contra de los efectos nocivos de la formación de placas y nudos/ovillos en la memoria y otras pérdidas de habilidades en el pensamiento”, dijo Patricia A. Boyle, del Centro de Enfermedad de Alzheimer de la UR.
“Es alentador confirmar que la participación en actividades significativas y con un propósito promueve la salud cognitiva en la vejez”, agregó Boyle, la autora principal del estudio.
En la investigación participaron 246 pacientes del Proyecto Vejez y Memoria del Centro Rush, que no tenían demencia y que después de morir fueron sometidos a una autopsia para poder estudiar su cerebro y cuantificar la formación de placas y nudos cerebrales.
Los participantes recibieron una evaluación clínica anual de hasta aproximadamente 10 años, que incluyó pruebas detalladas cognitivas y exámenes neurológicos, además de que respondieron preguntas acerca de cuál era el propósito en su vida.
Para el estudio, los investigadores examinaron si el tener un propósito en la vida desaceleró la tasa de declive cognitivo, pese a que las personas acumularon placas y nudos neurofibrilares.
Los científicos afirman que gran parte de la investigación de la enfermedad de Alzheimer que está en curso busca identificar formas de evitar o limitar la acumulación de placas y ovillos en el cerebro, una tarea que ha resultado bastante difícil.
Indicaron que se necesitan estudios como el actual, ya que hasta que se descubran terapias preventivas efectivas, se necesitan urgentemente estrategias para minimizar el impacto de las placas y de ovillos neurofibrilares en la cognición.
De acuerdo con Boyle, estos estudios son difíciles porque muchos factores influyen en la cognición y las investigaciones carecen de los datos necesarios para cuantificar los cambios de la enfermedad del Alzheimer en el cerebro.
La identificación de factores que promueven la salud cognitiva ayudará a combatir este gran problema de salud pública que crece rápidamente, como es la enfermedad de Alzheimer, dijo.
El Proyecto Vejez y Memoria comenzó en el Centro Médico Rush en 1997, es un estudio longitudinal clínico-patológico de las enfermedades crónicas comunes del envejecimiento.
Los mil 500 participantes son personas de edad reclutados de cerca de 40 comunidades de cuidado de retiro continuo, así como de viviendas subsidiadas para adultos de la tercera edad en Chicago y su área metropolitana.
Tener un objetivo en la vida puede ayudar a reducir el riesgo de una persona a desarrollar la enfermedad de Alzheimer, según un estudio realizado por investigadores del Centro Médico de la Universidad Rush (UR) de Chicago.
El estudio, publicado en la edición de mayo de la revista Archives of General Psychiatry, señaló que las personas que se han trazado objetivos en la vida mostraron mayores conocimientos respecto a los que no tienen propósitos.
Incluso las personas del primer grupo muestran una menor acumulación de placas y nudos neurofibrilares en su cerebro.
“Estos hallazgos sugieren que quienes tienen mayores motivaciones en la vida se protegen contra de los efectos nocivos de la formación de placas y nudos/ovillos en la memoria y otras pérdidas de habilidades en el pensamiento”, dijo Patricia A. Boyle, del Centro de Enfermedad de Alzheimer de la UR.
“Es alentador confirmar que la participación en actividades significativas y con un propósito promueve la salud cognitiva en la vejez”, agregó Boyle, la autora principal del estudio.
En la investigación participaron 246 pacientes del Proyecto Vejez y Memoria del Centro Rush, que no tenían demencia y que después de morir fueron sometidos a una autopsia para poder estudiar su cerebro y cuantificar la formación de placas y nudos cerebrales.
Los participantes recibieron una evaluación clínica anual de hasta aproximadamente 10 años, que incluyó pruebas detalladas cognitivas y exámenes neurológicos, además de que respondieron preguntas acerca de cuál era el propósito en su vida.
Para el estudio, los investigadores examinaron si el tener un propósito en la vida desaceleró la tasa de declive cognitivo, pese a que las personas acumularon placas y nudos neurofibrilares.
Los científicos afirman que gran parte de la investigación de la enfermedad de Alzheimer que está en curso busca identificar formas de evitar o limitar la acumulación de placas y ovillos en el cerebro, una tarea que ha resultado bastante difícil.
Indicaron que se necesitan estudios como el actual, ya que hasta que se descubran terapias preventivas efectivas, se necesitan urgentemente estrategias para minimizar el impacto de las placas y de ovillos neurofibrilares en la cognición.
De acuerdo con Boyle, estos estudios son difíciles porque muchos factores influyen en la cognición y las investigaciones carecen de los datos necesarios para cuantificar los cambios de la enfermedad del Alzheimer en el cerebro.
La identificación de factores que promueven la salud cognitiva ayudará a combatir este gran problema de salud pública que crece rápidamente, como es la enfermedad de Alzheimer, dijo.
El Proyecto Vejez y Memoria comenzó en el Centro Médico Rush en 1997, es un estudio longitudinal clínico-patológico de las enfermedades crónicas comunes del envejecimiento.
Los mil 500 participantes son personas de edad reclutados de cerca de 40 comunidades de cuidado de retiro continuo, así como de viviendas subsidiadas para adultos de la tercera edad en Chicago y su área metropolitana.
23 oct 2013
If I have the belief that I can do it
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
—Mahatma Gandhi
—Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
The great shift in life comes
The great shift in life comes
when you cease to be guided by forms
and you become attuned to frequencies.
~ Alan Cohen
when you cease to be guided by forms
and you become attuned to frequencies.
~ Alan Cohen
All of the great teachers have left us with a similar message...
All of the great teachers have left us with a similar message: Go
within, discover your invisible higher self, and know God as the love
that is within you.
Wayne Dyer,
Wayne Dyer,
22 oct 2013
"God has no hands but these."
"God has no hands but these."
We can each choose to be the hands of God by learning how to lovingly manage our pain so that we don't inflict pain on others.
Margaret Paul
We can each choose to be the hands of God by learning how to lovingly manage our pain so that we don't inflict pain on others.
Margaret Paul
Who is in charge in this moment - your loving Adult or your wounded self?
Daily Inspiration
Who is in charge in this moment - your loving Adult or your wounded self? Are you connecting with Spirit and bringing that love and truth to your Inner Child, or are you stuck in your mind trying to figure everything out? Challenge yourself to move beyond your mind and into love and truth. By Dr. Margaret Paul
Tu tiempo es limitado, de modo que no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de alguien distinto.
«Tu tiempo es limitado, de modo que no lo malgastes viviendo
la vida de alguien distinto. No quedes atrapado en el dogma, que es vivir como
otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las opiniones de
los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más importante, ten el
coraje para hacer lo que te dicen tu corazón y tu intuición. Ellos ya saben de
algún modo en qué quieres convertirte realmente. Todo lo demás es secundario».
Steve Jobs
“Tu
tiempo es limitado, de modo que no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de
alguien distinto. No quedes atrapado en el dogma, que es vivir como
otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las
opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más
importante, ten el coraje para hacer lo que te dicen tu corazón y tu
intuición.” - Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) - See more at:
http://www.dementesx.com/no-quedes-atrapado-en-el-dogma-steve-jobs-1955-2011/#sthash.c7ezPm4n.dpuf
“Tu
tiempo es limitado, de modo que no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de
alguien distinto. No quedes atrapado en el dogma, que es vivir como
otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las
opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más
importante, ten el coraje para hacer lo que te dicen tu corazón y tu
intuición.” - Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) - See more at:
http://www.dementesx.com/no-quedes-atrapado-en-el-dogma-steve-jobs-1955-2011/#sthash.c7ezPm4n.dpuf
“Tu
tiempo es limitado, de modo que no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de
alguien distinto. No quedes atrapado en el dogma, que es vivir como
otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las
opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más
importante, ten el coraje para hacer lo que te dicen tu corazón y tu
intuición.” - Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) - See more at:
http://www.dementesx.com/no-quedes-atrapado-en-el-dogma-steve-jobs-1955-2011/#sthash.c7ezPm4n.dpuf
Choose to live simply so that others may simply live.
Choose to live simply so that others may simply live.
- Gandhi -
Un montón de piedras dejan de ser simplemente un montón de piedras...
Un montón de piedras dejan de ser simplemente un montón de piedras, en el momento en que un solo hombre las contempla dibujando dentro de sí la imagen de una catedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. Leguin
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
—Alan Cohen
—Alan Cohen
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
—Maria Robinson
—Maria Robinson
Many people die with their music still in them.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
19 oct 2013
18 oct 2013
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Friday October 18, 2013
Many of you deny love because you were hurt by someone you loved. But Dear Ones, don’t you see that it was not love that hurt you? It was the absence of love that hurt you. And yet you deny love as if love were to blame, which only makes you more in line with the very thing that hurt you in the first place. Do you see? Do not give an old, out of alignment experience the power to make you forget your true essence or stop BEing who you really are. Your light, your beauty, your essence, your LOVE, is far too glorious, far too required, to withhold from the world. ~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Thursday October 17, 2013
Dear Ones, it is your natural instinct to love. As a piece of God, love is your source, it is your true state of being. Many of you have been hurt by others and have decided to be guarded with your love, which really only amounts to denying yourself.
Love! Love because it is your natural state. Love because it feels good to do so. If you have forgotten how to love, or how wonderful it feels to feel love, spend some time with babies, animal or human, and feel your heart open and expand. Take notice of when you are in that love space – you feel absolutely delightful – so present and alive! You feel whole and healthy in all ways.
Many of you think you will experience the flush of falling in love for a short period of time and after that love becomes work. This is such a limited idea of what love is! Love is what allows you to express your beauty, your light, your essence and is what opens you to experience the entire universe loving you right back.
So come back to love, Dear Ones, as an element that is just as important to you as the air you breathe, and surrender back into that universal stream of divine connection where you give love, receive love, feel love, BE love, all at the same time. ~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Wednesday October 16, 2013
Freedom, the true freedom your soul craves, comes from embracing who you really are, from living your life according to what is best for you and your unique path, choosing activities that bring you joy, seeing yourself as already having everything you need, and surrounding yourself with people and energies that love, encourage, support and uplift you in all of those areas. By doing so you will continue to shine brightly in your truth, and encourage others to do the same, supporting the energies of acceptance, allowing, and divine self expression, which will only continue to further expand, enhance and beautify not only your life expressions, but your beloved planet, as well. ~Archangel Gabriel
Give it a positive meaning so you can get a positive result.
Give it a positive meaning so you can get a positive result.
~ Bashar
~ Bashar
17 oct 2013
16 oct 2013
Personal Power Through Awareness
Is there anyone in your life you have withheld truth from? Think about what you really want to say to him or her. Let it come out without judgment. Now that you have written it, is there an even deeper level of truth you can come from, one that is softer, more compassionate, and acknowledging of the other person as a loving individual? You can keep doing this until you see the real issue between you. Then imagine light and joy between you as you release the truth.
Personal Power Through Awareness
Personal Power Through Awareness
La depresión revisitada: cómo controlar la prima de riesgo vital más temida
Psicología - Las terapias farmacológicas, hasta ahora mayoritarias para tratar la depresión clínica, están perdiendo terreno en favor de las terapias psicológicas validadas científicamente. Se hace repaso a las orientaciones y tratamientos más eficaces y se hace hincapié en el ejercicio físico, como potente herramienta no solo para prevenir la depresión, sino para potenciar los efectos de cualquiera de los tratamientos elegidos.
Paloma Chorot Raso profesora del Departamento de Psicología de la Personalidad Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos, UNED
Bonifacio Sandín Ferrero catedrático de Psicología Patológica , UNED
José Antonio Portellano Pérez psicólogo clínico y profesor del Departamento de Psicobiología , UCM
You may not love the words, the actions, or the choices that others make
"Beloved one, you may not love the words, the actions, or the choices
that others make, but you love their true being, the Christ of them, and
you can smile in the midst of whatever is coming down."
Jeshua ben Joseph
Jeshua ben Joseph
15 oct 2013
Living With Joy
Often
you create problems to originate new forms of behavior and to evolve
parts of yourself. You can do that without creating crisis, by paying
attention to the whispers of your mind and by spending time imagining
yourself in the future. You can draw to yourself new images of who you
want to be, but also be willing to release the situations and things in
your life that do not fit those images.
Living With Joy
Personal Power Through Awareness
Honoring
your deepest truth is a great gift to you and to the other person.
This does not mean that truth should be expressed by making the other
person wrong. Your deepest truth will be spoken with love for yourself
and for the other person. If what you say is damaging or harmful to the
other person, then you have not come from your deepest truth, which is
always loving.
Personal Power Through Awareness
Spiritual Growth
As
you reach upward and increase your light, you will draw to yourself all
the forms that will make it possible to get your work out to the world.
Don't worry if you don't yet know the form of your world service;
start with the intention to be of service. Put your life in order.
Once you request an opportunity to serve, your Higher Self and the
higher forces of the universe hear you. Every opportunity will come to
you just as soon as you are ready.
Spiritual Growth
Opening to Channel
High-level
guides rarely predict future events. If they do, it is only because the
information is useful for your growth or for humanity. If the
information you receive from someone else's guide diminishes you or
makes you feel bad about yourself or fearful about your life, then you
have not been with a high-level guide. High level guides leave you
feeling uplifted and supported in who you are. They help you see
yourself in new and expanded ways.
Opening to Channel
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Joy
is an important attitude that will increase your prosperity. Learn to
spend money, even small sums, in ways that bring you joy. When you have
larger sums, you will know how to spend them with joy as well. You want
your money to bring you happiness and joy. If you do not know how to
spend a few dollars in a way that increases your happiness, it will be
difficult to increase your happiness by spending thousands of dollars.
Begin now to let your money bring you joy, and as the amount of money
you have increases it will bring you more and more joy.
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Soul Love
Recognize
all the ways people are giving you the essence of love, perhaps in ways
that you might not have noticed or acknowledged. Thank people for
every gift of love they offer you. Do not rely on gestures or outer
appearances as an indication of the love that people have for you. Rely
instead on the feeling of love that exists between you.
Soul Love
14 oct 2013
~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Tuesday October 15, 2013
Daily Message ~ Monday October 14, 2013
The answer is simple, Dear Ones. You haven’t fallen out of love. You have fallen out of gratitude. If you put yourself on high alert for all the wonderful traits your beloved has and choose to concentrate on and express gratitude for those many aspects that made you fall in love in the first place, you will find yourself falling back in love with your partner and using energies that will help your relationship continue to bloom and grow.
Some of you say, “Well, he/she doesn’t appreciate me! I’ll be thankful for them if they start to appreciate me.” If you are feeling that way you are missing the point. While it is certainly nice to feel other’s gratitude, and we do encourage you to share it with others because it feels good for everyone involved, it is a tool you use for universal feedback, not a gift you bestow upon others. It is your power tool to help energetically announce and create what you want more of. It is how you choose the energies you wish to live with and experience, and no one else can give that to you. It is from BEing grateful that you will draw to you the gratitude you seek.
Like everything else, the shifting of energies must come from within in order to have the profound and lasting effect you seek. So celebrate the blessings that are all around you, Dear Ones. It is the easiest way to bring desired flow back into any area of your life. ~Archangel Gabriel
Daily Message ~ Sunday October 13, 2013
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau -
Soul Love
Connect
with your soul often, and let it show you what you might do to grow
spiritually. Believe that spending time to meditate, to connect with
your soul, to transform your subpersonalities, to awaken your heart
centers, and to do inner work is some of the most valuable time you can
spend. Turn your daily activities into your spiritual practice of
expressing love.
Soul Love
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Many
people determine their net worth by looking at the balance on their
bank accounts. Even if you do not have a savings account and you have
debts, you still have net worth--all your skills, knowledge, attitudes,
education, experience, and contacts. Everything you have learned and
every skill you possess are sources of future income. The skills and
experience of your past are your net worth, and you can turn them into
money.
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Opening to Channel
In
the reality system of guides, all time is simultaneous. We are outside
of your linear time and space constructs. We see the entirety of the
work we are doing together with you, while you only see it step by step.
We are not saying that it is predetermined. Whenever you take a step
or make a decision, we are able to project it into the future in all
directions, and see it as a completed act, exploring all probabilities.
Because of this overview, we are able to assist you in seeing the
outcomes of your choices and help you find your appropriate paths.
Opening to Channel
Spiritual Growth
If
you want to connect with the current of evolution, be willing to have
your life take on a higher order. Be open to allowing and accepting
good things into your life. Believe you deserve to have the best life
you can imagine. As you align with the Higher Will, your life will
become more harmonious and satisfying.
Spiritual Growth
Personal Power Through Awareness
Often
your mind presents you with many ideas. More opportunities may come to
you than you can possibly act upon. Do not make yourself wrong if you
can't seem to bring yourself to act upon what seems to be a golden
opportunity. Follow that deeper note of understanding that says in a
whisper "wait." Or, if your mind is telling you to wait but that inner
voice says act, take a leap of faith, dare to take a risk - then do so.
Personal Power Through Awareness
Living With Joy
If
you feel people want more attention than you can give them, or put
demands on you that you cannot and do not choose to meet, ask, “Is a
part of me putting demands that cannot be met on another part of
myself?”
Living With Joy
Take it One Step at a Time
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
13 oct 2013
Soul Love
Commit
to your growth and spiritual evolution as a way to increase your
self-love and to have more love to offer others. As you grow you have
more to offer your relationships. You are able to take the actions and
do the things that make your relationships successful. You are focused
on higher purpose, your vision expands, and you have beliefs that
support the success of your relationships. When you make a commitment
to your spiritual growth, you steadily gain more faith and trust in
yourself, in your ability to set boundaries, and in your capacity to
radiate a consistent, steady love.
Soul Love
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Your
beliefs create your reality. Beliefs are assumptions about the nature
of reality, and because you create what you believe in, you will have
many "proofs" that reality operates the way you think it does. For
instance, a person who believes that the universe is abundant will act
in such a way that he or she experiences abundance, and a person who
believes that money comes only from working hard will receive money only
from hard work. You can change what you believe and thus change what
you experience.
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
Spiritual Growth
When
you first ask for an opportunity to make a difference in the world, you
may find yourself putting energy into making your own life work at
higher levels. You cannot serve others as effectively if your life is
in turmoil and your problems take much of your time and energy. Solving
your problems and making your life work is an important part of your
spiritual growth.
Spiritual Growth
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