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Random Acts of Kindness – Cygnus Review Thank you, from the core of my heart, for your kind responses to my last email and for the support and healing which I can honestly say was deeply felt. We truly are ‘all for one and one for all’. Now that we are building this Ark of Love together though, we are going to need to gather some tools! The Cygnus team and I are interested to know what you have found helps you to remember your connection to love. I was originally going to ask what helps you to reconnect to love but I don’t believe that we are ever disconnected from It … we just sometimes forget that we are connected … we’ve only to put the phone back to our ear if we want to continue the conversation with our heart, with each other, with the Divine Love. When we forget about our connection to love it is easy to blame situations, other people or things that are ‘happening to us’. Emotional Freedom Technique How much do you know about EFT? Random acts of kindness Were you aware that this week is ‘Random Acts of Kindness Week’?

Peacemaker Violence Prevention Lesson Plans and Education K-12 The PeaceMakers curriculum is a proven-effective K-12 public school-based program developed by the FreeWay Project in 1996. It has been field-tested in hundreds of Missouri classrooms. The curriculum is based on the concept that violence begins with attitudes of mind, progresses through angry speech, and results in hostile actions. It uses dozens of interactive games and activities to teach students to speak courteously and treat others politely, with dignity and respect . . . the same way they would like to be spoken to and treated. PeaceMakers curriculum uses fresh lesson plans and challenging learning activities to teach three fundamental principles: 1. 2. 3. The curriculum is user-friendly. Click here to view a sample activity (Anger) In a 2001 study of 957 students in 14 schools, violent behavior was reduced significantly by the teaching of PeaceMakers curriculum. Click here for order form or you may call in your orders toll-free:

Peacebuilders International The Corner On Character: A Culture Of Kindness Bullying. There, I said it. It's a hard topic to grab hold of, and an even more difficult issue to handle and curtail. Let's face it; kids can be cruel. People can be cruel. I wonder how A Culture of Kindness looks, sounds, and feels at his school. If bullying situations arise, our students use this simple formula: Talk, Walk, then Tell. Counterterrorism and the English Language The New York Times is finally calling torture by its name. Why did it wait so long? Alex Torrenegra/Flickr The announcement that the New York Times will now refer to Bush Administration torture by its proper name is welcome news, tempered only by Executive Editor Dean Baquet's unfortunate attempt to rationalize the old policy. But every torturing government insists that its interrogations are not, in fact, illegal torture. All that has been known for years! Then Baquet wrote: Meanwhile, the Justice Department, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, has made clear that it will not prosecute in connection with the interrogation program. This seems perilously close to declaring that whether torture is the most accurate way to describe waterboarding depends on whether any Bush Administration officials remain in jeopardy of being prosecuted and imprisoned for it. The Times failed to call torture by its rightful name because it failed as an institution. There are other possibilities.

PeaceTXT: Using Mobile Technology to End Violence When violence threatens to break out on city streets, in the run-up to an election, or in a land dispute, how can community leaders instantly reach out to urge calm and quash false rumors? It turns out that the key may already be in our pockets: the mobile phone. PeaceTXT builds on the proven success of one-on-one violence prevention programs and is exploring the potential of mobile technology to reach more people in high-risk situations more quickly, stopping violence and creating a more durable peace. Separately, two PeaceTXT tactics have already been shown to work. Can an analogue public health model for addressing violence be combined with the use of mobile phones to influence behavior in a new and powerful way that prevents bloodshed and fosters reconciliation in places all around the world? PeaceTXT is poised to answer that question. Project Updates The PeaceTXT Partnership Qatar Computing Research InstituteQCRI conducts world-class multidisciplinary computing research.

Ways to share smiles Have you ever been on a train that has been delayed by several hours, or crammed full of people with every seat taken and people standing at the ends of the carriages? or Have you ever been in a busy train station at rush hour? Have you ever been stuck in a very long traffic jam? Do you notice that in these situations most people look pretty miserable? And, all it takes is something small and they could be smiling. Two stories to inspire you to spread the smiles! A few weeks ago, there was a lot of traffic in the city centre, a juggler had decided to entertain these drivers with some skittle juggling! I wish I had taken a photo! and Last week I was on one of those trains, delayed and overcrowded. Here are some other ideas that you can do anytime, you don’t need to be stuck in traffic, on a busy train or be able to juggle! Pay it Forward is an international movement to spread kindness. If you liked this post, you may also like How can Education facilitate happiness? Learning about Love

Does Language Influence our View of the World? We use language to describe our subjective perception of the world. If I say “I feel cold”, then I use language to describe how I feel. This is nothing new. The idea that that the language that we use can influence the way that we think is nothing new. People organize space and time based on the language that they use. Color perception is a second example (1), which demonstrates how language can influence cognitive ability. George Orwell’s book 1984 describes the language “Newspeak” which serves as a further example of the Saphir-Whorf-Hypothesis. The question that know ask myself is, if there is no word for a particular idea or concept, does it mean that the people are not aware of the existence of this concept at all? The consequence of the Sphir-Whorf-Hypothesis is far reaching. Here is my personal collection of words which exist in the German language but are difficult to translate into English. For Discussion: References: Boroditsky, Lera.

The Global Peace Initiative of Women 7 Proven Tactics to Spread Joy Around the World | Cherie Roe Dirksen Does it not feel wonderful to be the catalyst that activates the pay it forward system? What is paying it forward? For those of you who don’t know — it is when you perform an act of kindheartedness with no need for reward, the receiver of that action then pays it forward to someone else. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi This creates a cycle of goodwill that can, hopefully, snowball — spreading out into the world at large. Do you feel like starting an avalanche of joy today? How Can I Be of Service? Here is a simple list of things that you can start to incorporate into your every day life, scattering those seeds of love and bliss. Smile at people — especially the ones that look grumpy. Hug people — most people are tactile and appreciate some physical contact. Acknowledgement — ‘I See You’ I would like to share a story with you. I stopped and started looking in my bag for some money. Don’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover Other articles you may enjoy:

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