Lisa A. Berkley: Thoughts for a New Societal Paradigm

PROGRESS: Science Acknowledges What Body Workers and Healers have Known for a Long Time: the Body Speaks

2010-10-27T03:42:00.004-04:00

Our bodies speak our truths, if only we would listen... The good news is it seems that science is beginning to understand the connection. Interesting and exciting article in which researchers recognize the relationship between our thoughts and our body. This is something body workers, healers and meditators have know for ages. The more this type of understanding becomes "main stream" the better the possibility to heal not only ourselves, but also the planet...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02angier.html?_r=1&em

PROGRESS: Hapiness is being considered when it comes to economics, policy and mangement

2010-02-24T14:56:00.002-05:00

One of the positive aspects to the economic crisis we are in is a re-evaluation of what makes us happy, and this plays into our economic, political and management choices. Betsey Stevenson of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania surveys the work in this emerging field.

http://qn.som.yale.edu/article.php?issue_id=12&article_id=275

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...The Evolution of Friendship and Role of Technology

2009-12-08T19:25:00.003-05:00

As our FaceBook (or other Social Networking Site) Friends List grows, the depth of intimacy diminishes. Our vulnerabilities become expressed in brief sentences and we long for meaning.

This is a well written article discussing the modern day friendship and its lack of true closeness and depth.

http://bit.ly/4LWyHn

INSPIRATION:10 Actions for Peace in 2010

2009-12-05T21:28:00.000-05:00

http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profiles/blog/show?id=780588%3ABlogPost%3A35307&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

PROGRESS: Harvard Business Publishing: Gratitude+Positive Feedback+Working from Strengths=Success

2009-11-28T14:43:00.002-05:00

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/give_thanks_to_your_employees.html

INSPIRATION: A toast to the crazy ones...

2009-11-08T00:06:00.004-05:00

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." — Apple Computer Inc.

PROGRESS: Emotional Intelligence is Something Which Can be Learned...

2009-11-02T12:52:00.002-05:00

http://networkedblogs.com/p16206306

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...no word for peace

2009-08-23T23:33:00.003-04:00

“The first clue, lesson number one from human history on the subject of nonviolence, is that there is no word for it. The concept has been praised by every major religion. Throughout history, there have been practitioners of nonviolence. Yet, while every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence except that it is not another idea, it is not violence. In Sanskrit, the word for violence is himsa, harm and negation of himsa, just as nonviolence is the negation of violence, is ahimsa—not doing harm. But if ahimsa is “not doing harm,” what is it doing?

The only possible explanation for the absence of a proactive word to express nonviolence is that not only the political establishments but the cultural and intellectual establishments of all societies have viewed nonviolence as a marginal point of view, a fanciful rejection of one of society’s key components, a repudiation of something important but not a serious force in itself. It is not an authentic concept but simply the abnegation of something else. It has been marginalized because it is one of the rare revolutionary ideas, an idea that seeks to completely change the nature of society, a threat to the established order. And it has always been treated as something profoundly dangerous.”^¹

Imagine then, “if we lived in a world that had no word for war other than nonpeace, what kind of world would that be? It would not necessarily be a world without war, but it would be a world that regarded war as an aberrant and insignificant activity.”^²

1 Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence (New York: Modern Library, 2006), p. 5.

2 Ibid; p. 5