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What do you notice? Part 2

In the last issue of Good Vibes with Karen, I encouraged you to go on an energetic journey of discovery with me. I encouraged you to ask yourself, what do you notice about yourself from an energetic perspective. What do you notice about yourself physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually?

Now, I encourage you to continue your energetic journey of discovery with me. Now, I encourage you to consider: How do you embrace life? What are you like when you are with others? What do you do to recharge? How do you participate in your community? What issues matter most to you? Join me on a journey of energetic discovery as you consider: How do you embrace life? What do you notice about that?

Now, I would like you to reflect on a typical day in your life? Do you get up fully awake and ready to engage with the world? Do you take some time to wake up and prefer a slower start before engaging in your day? Do you eat breakfast or do you prefer to eat later in the day? Do you get to work/school ahead of time, on time or are you typically a bit late? What do you notice about how you start a typical day?

How do you engage with others? Are you outgoing and enthusiastic? Are you more introspective and prefer to observe others before engaging? Do you show different faces to the world or are you essentially the same in all circumstances? How would family, friends and other people you work with or spend time with describe you? Would they describe you the same way or differently? When a discussion is going on, do you readily share your opinions or do you take some time to formulate your observations? What do you notice about how you engage with others?

How do you spend the rest of your day? Do you spend time with family and friends? Do you volunteer? Do you prefer solitary pursuits? Do you have an active lifestyle? What are your hobbies and interests? What do you notice about what you do with your spare time?

What are the issues that are important to you? Are they related to family? To friends? To your community? Do you have an interest in issues facing the planet and those of us who live here? What do you notice about the issues that are important to you?

Finally, what do you do to recharge? What fills you up when you are feeling a bit drained? What lifts your spirit? What do you notice about your preferred ways to recharge?

I would like to end this energetic journey the same way I closed the last one:

Each of us is a unique human being. You are the only one like you on the planet. Although we come from universal source energy, as human beings we are each different from each other. What a gift! How boring it would be if we were all the same. So, what did you notice about yourself? Have you considered yourself from this perspective before? If you have, did you notice anything different about yourself?

The purpose of this exercise is to get you to take a look at yourself. Each of us is a fascinating combination of traits, skills and abilities. Now, I encourage you to celebrate yourself. Each of us us has much to celebrate. Please celebrate being you!

To a deeper understanding of ourselves,
Karen

© 2010 SPIRIT Connections
Dr. Harmander Singh
"God, what have we done?"
By Bob Perks

I don't know why I waited.

My heart was heavy when I saw the
bird just standing there drenched in oil.
I don't know what, if any, emotions a
bird can feel, but it looked humiliated
and confused.

My heart heard it say, "What did I do to
deserve this?"

I whispered, "I'm sorry!"

It was then that I asked God, "What
have we done?"

He gave us a perfect place to live and
we turned it into our play ground thinking
only of ourselves.

Move the wildlife, to hell with the
environment. Our needs supersede
all others.

We need more oil to keep up with
the demand so pollution is "collateral
damage." A phrase I heard once
spoken about innocent civilians
killed in the war.

We are screaming at BP, boycotting
their company for mistakes they made
when in the long run, in the reality of
it all, you and I are to blame.

We are the reason oil companies drill.
We are the reason that, even in my own
backyard, gas companies are leasing
beautiful, natural land and farms, so that
they can pump chemicals into the ground
to release gas deposits. They call this
"fracking."

Already water systems have been polluted,
and the earth changed in ways we will one
day regret.

"God, what have we done?"

He gave us perfection and we are stealing
away its wealth.

He gave us clean and we dirtied it.

He gave us beautiful skies and we polluted
them.

He gave us wildlife and we are killing them off
through over consumption and chemical mis-
management.

He called it creation, we call it evolution.

He called it natural and we call it "collateral
damage."

"In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth." Genesis 1

"Then God said, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness, and let them rule
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the
air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and
over all the creatures that move along the
ground." Genesis 1:26

"God, what have we done?"

"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob Perks

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ร'ยฉ 2001 Bob Perks
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear
much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."
Dr. Harmander Singh
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Women's Issues

Women's Issues is the column about women and their contributions to history, science, family life, literature and more. Women's issues is a celebration of all women everywhere. As we have had our share of sadness, oppression and great pain, we also have had moments of great victories. Since the beginning of time we have been subjugated into the role of acting behind the scenes, whereas men ruled the world.

This column was written for everyone who is interested in knowing how women's history is different from the classical views written by men. This column is written to give everyone interested an appreciation for women of all cultures and how we survived, co-created, and fashioned the world we live in; past and present.

The Women's Issues column celebrates women and finally gives us the voice we have deserved for so long. Men will see women in a new light, and women will appreciate all the great women who have gone before us and how each and everyone of us fashion our present and our future everyday.

July 22, 2010

And now for the story:

Title: The women's temperance movement: Banning alcohol to save marriages- Part 4

Excerpt:

National Anti Saloon League - 1895

Rev Howard Hyde Russell, the superintendent of Ohio State founded the Ohio Anti Saloon League to work with temperance laws and close down saloons.

To view the entire article click on the link underneath the story

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-47386-Montreal-...
Dr. Harmander Singh
"... The opportunities for improving service through [private-sector] competition are as vast as the free market itself."

EVERY DAY, the private sector introduces new products, improves old ones, expands services, and, in general, reduces costs. The desktop computer on which this article was written, for example, was nonexistent 25 years ago and essentially unaffordable until recently.

Government, on the other hand, becomes less responsive and more expensive over time. Spending by the Federal government has exploded over the past four decades, yet almost no one would argue that government services are better today than they were 40 years ago. To most government managers, the private-sector practice of cutting budgets while increasing services seems a bizarre and paradoxical dream.

The notion that, by definition, more spending improves services is the single most destructive idea that hampers government policy today. It explains why so many attempts to get Federal, state, and local budgets under control start in deceit and end in gridlock. We all agree the budget must be cut, but the underlying assumption is that services must therefore be reduced, which means the debate boils down to an argument over whose ox gets gored.

Not surprisingly, many elected leaders now talk about "running government like a business," looking to the private sector for a way out of the spiral of higher taxes and declining services. Indianapolis has been a part of this trend toward efficiency in government. Some might even suggest that it has been at the forefront. Since 1992, my administration has allowed private companies to compete for contracts to provide more than 75 city services. In the process, we have reduced our operating budget, lowered taxes three times, and cut our non-public-safety workforce by nearly 50%. Even as we have decreased the total budget, we have raised the public-safety budget by almost 30%; put 100 more police officers on the street; invested over $1,000,000,000 to rebuild roads, sewers, and other parts of the city's infrastructure; and increased our budget reserves by more than 400%.

Equally important, competition has dramatically improved the quality of city services, increasing productivity and boosting customer satisfaction. Rather than lowering service quality or slashing wages, our private partners have produced savings through innovation and a strong focus on customer service.

Please read the full article - Making Government Cheaper And Better - Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith's economic policy USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Jan, 2000 by Stephen Goldsmith . Thanks!
Dr. Harmander Singh
In my opinion all that the government possesses and uses if from, by and for public and thus it is the most common identity, the governmental body, which is a the biggest public property that any nation possesses. If we cannot utilize for all that we pay our taxes and work for, we may be causing more troubles if not any good. We all represent a nation and if it is group or body, we are never excluded. Thus, it deserves the highest priority that the public property and services get the same status as the charity organizations, is not it.


Moreover, when we earn from insurance and other governmental sector, all of it also services, so we need to pay attention that Internet organizations, may all be private or nongovernmental, like Google support this cause for greater good in favor of all in the public. It can give a greater level of governmental services as if charity organizations offer when we compare all the rates of private sector with it for anything that we say "in the market".


In the developing countries, the governmental services in health, education and all other kinds of possible ones are cheaper than even the charity or non-profit organizations when we compare the rates at which these are provided, however the private sector seems to take over most of the governmental services and we may find our selves in great need of amendments in future, while comparing governmental, charity and private sector services. It is not any kind of difficult right now as it seems to me.


So, if you live in the developing country, please think about it: Are Governmental Services Similar or Same to Charity?


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