This will be my final online posting for two weeks as I will be leaving tomorrow for Merritt, British Columbia for a 10 day silent meditation retreat, called a Vipassana Meditation (more information here: www.dhamma.org).
Are you ready for the new year 2012? Come put your plans into action through breathing.
Don’t miss this first chance in America to learn Danjeon Breathing, which has been done for thousands of years in the East for health, wealth, happiness and awakening.
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It seldom happens when we go through a day without experiencing stress. We are especially familiar with these feelings when they build up after a long day at work or while studying for a difficult final exam. In our modern industrialized world, it is more difficult now than ever to avoid stress, and some experts say this is leading to many unforeseen health-related problems.
this is from another group.. I have to put it here because I didn't hit send... and for some reason I can hardly sleep now.... today aches.. and I don't know why except maybe I am feeling Dylan and he is not understanding what happened to his life....
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I don't know where I'm at,
whether at this time or another time..
According to Gregg Braden the button to send the ICBM’s a flyin has been pressed 3 times since the cold war was over and nothing has happened. So if we’re ever stressin about anything – we should stop it.
Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society. De Botton lays out the causes of and solutions to status anxiety as follows:
Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. Sources define this term as follows:
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf [1])
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
