Compassion Sometimes looking at your situation from another point of view can inspire creative and wonderful insight. Compassion's Core Identifying with another person is an essential process for human beings. It is commonly seen throughout the world as people adapt and change with new styles of clothing, language, behavior, etc., which is illustrated by infants that begin to mirror the facial expressions and body movements of their mother as early as the first days of their … [Read more...]
Compassion may be the Core of Successful Leadership
Monika Burwise: Our Global Awakening – Unwrap Yourself!
Founder and CEO of The Global Awakening Institute, Monika Burwise join us today for this very special show to help you unwrap the gift of you! Monika and her husband Graham founded Global Awakening Institute as a platform for sharing their wisdom and to explore the boundaries of human potential. Together they have expertise in a diverse range of disciplines including human behavior, social dynamics, psychology, linguistics, physiology, philosophy, theology, spirituality, mysticism, the mind & … [Read more...]
Women Moving Forward Conference – JUNE 1, 2013 (Toronto, CA)
What is the Women Moving Forward Conference? When: Saturday June 1, 2013 Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (registration & light breakfast 8:30 am) It is a one day conference to Celebrate the Courage of Women who have left abusive situations and to provide them with new tools and motivation to continue to move forward in their lives and not return to unhealthy environments. We are holding the non-profit event which if free to the first 100 women who register. Women from different … [Read more...]
The Pursuit of Enlightenment and Liberation, Eve Revere
The YIN MIND ________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at the juncture, some will say: is … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND, The Eve Revere
The YIN MIND ________________________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at the juncture, some will … [Read more...]
A Journey of Liberation, M. Toomey
I Am Who Am She stood at her full stature. She took a deep, deep breath. “I am who am!” she noted. “I am who am,” she cried. Her eyes shone as the star light. Her face beamed as the moon. “O yes, I do believe it. O now I know it’s true.” Where did she get that confidence? What made her feel so sure? She smiled a knowing smile and thought of all she’d been through. She thought of all she knew. They’d tried to tell her differently. They’d often knocked her down. They did not want … [Read more...]
LOVING Your Children teaches Resilience
Psychological resilience is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual "bouncing back" to a previous state of normal functioning, or simply not showing negative effects. A third, more controversial form of resilience is sometimes referred to as 'post-traumatic growth' or 'steeling effects' where in the experience adversity leads to better functioning (much like an inoculation gives one the capacity to cope well with future exposure to … [Read more...]
Alchemy, a much needed insight!
"Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God." (NewT:1 Corinthians 11:11-12) Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the … [Read more...]
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, ‘The Meaning of Life’
The "Meaning of Life" The 'meaning of life' lies in the quest for something eternally unachievable: divine perfection. For only the impossible is real, and what is furthest from us is in fact closest to us. This would seem to be absurd, but it isn’t, for things are not as we see them. Those who reach for the unachievable, the perfection of God, remembering that they were created in his image, are the ones who live in reality. Since they have placed the Creator at the center of … [Read more...]
Dwayne Morgon – When Sisters Speak – January 26th
'When Sisters Speak' - January 26th St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, at 27 Front Street East. It was never my intention to start this show, but a couple of years after starting my When Brothers Speak series, people kept on asking me when I would start the women's version, so I did. This year, the show marks its 13th year, and it is the largest, and longest running spoken word series of its kind, anywhere! Each year, six women are selected to share their work in an uncensored forum, … [Read more...]
7 Things to Make Positive Thinking Effective
7 Things You Should Do to Make Positive Thinking Effective Dana Saviuc, Guest Author Yesterday I wrote a post on "Why Positive Thinking Won’t Guarantee You Positive Results" and just like I promised, today I will go deeper into the topic and talk about the 7 things you should do to make positive thinking effective. 1. Ownership ~ Whenever we get angry or irritated because of something people say or do to us it is so because we project our own shadows and our own darkness on to … [Read more...]
Perseverence does not mean one won’t fall!
Perserverence does not mean one won't fall; it simply means that you will pick yourself up and try again! Perseverance doesn’t mean we don’t fall down, make mistakes or have missteps. On the contrary, perseverance means that no matter what, we keep going. I have bad days, get moody, and feel down. But the important thing is to know that it doesn’t last. But even more disappointing than a short amount of time where you’re “off your game” is a significant setback, derailment or … [Read more...]
Fuss or Stress, that is the question? – WOMEN in RECOVERY
"HOW IMPORTANT IS IT ANYWAY?" is a question we all must ask ourselves, as we are reacting to any situation in life. How much of the stress in your life is caused by you, your perception and your reaction to life's little challenges and events? How much of your stress is caused by you placing yourself into someone else's life, and then worrying sick over their challenges and events? How much of the stress in your life truly is really only a 'fuss' that is all self created, in reaction … [Read more...]
VEGAN – What’s in a Word?, Gentle World
The common usage of the word ‘vegan’ has begun to shift in the last decade, largely under the influence of celebrities and the news media. Instead of a philosophy and way of life that seeks to avoid the exploitation of nonhuman animals, 'veganism' is viewed by many as a fad diet now – and often as one that allows the occasional consumption of products derived from other animals. These recent changes in usage parallel the evolution of the meaning of the word ‘vegetarian’ in surprising ways. The … [Read more...]