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QUESTIONS FROM THE E BOOK GLOBAL CITIZENS FOR PEACE (FREE DOWN LOAD)
We wish to talk directly to the individual member of our community and tribe.
- As an individual human being, do you have sufficient rest and sleep?
- How is your nutrition and what kind of household goods and cosmetics do you use?
The health care movement is probably the most outstanding and significant change in medicine in the last 25 years. Why should we be the unwitting fodder for the pharmaceutical companies who only seek to exploit our illnesses to make more money. In any case, the vast majority of illness and stress in our society results from lifestyle. We need to realise that the type of food that we buy in our stores is mainly processed and often completely devoid of any essential nutrients and vitamins. Added to this is the huge rise of cancer in the past ten years caused by the growing amount of pollutants, pesticides and chemicals in our household products and cosmetics.
Pollutants in our environment have created a massive increase in the incidence of cancer, just as the fat in our foods and unhealthy lifestyles have created an increase in heart disease, due to obesity and raised cholesterol.
Key scientific medical trials have shown that yoga, a vegetarian diet and meditation can reverse heart disease in one year (Dean Ornish program). Dr David Spiegel in 1989 did the key study which showed the effect of psychosocial intervention on patients with metastatic breast cancer. This was a double blind trial and showed that the intervention group which was taught simple relaxation, self hypnosis techniques, communication matters and group support at the end of twelve months had less anxiety, less fear, less depression, better pain control and improved quality of life. The follow up also showed that those in the intervention group showed a doubling of survival time. It seems that an effect of improved quality of life, seems to equate with improved survival.
- Are you having quality of life and are you enjoying your life? If not, what can you do to improve your life so that you are taking responsibility for and promoting your own health.
Relaxation and meditation help to undo the harmful effects of stress. Like exercise, meditation increases significant reductions in illness in every single disease category, and as a result of this, insurance companies in the US and Europe are starting to offer substantial reductions in life insurance premiums for up to 30% for people who practice a designated form of meditation regularly.
You have a choice in the kind of meditation you wish to do. You have a choice in the kind of spiritual path you wish to follow.
Some varieties of meditation and relaxation exercises include:
- progressive muscle relaxation
- concentration of the breath in mindfulness and yoga exercises
- mantra meditation
- transcendental meditation
- mindfulness meditation
- visualisations, affirmations and imagery
All this kind of work is inner work where the person is trying to reach the conscious and subconscious mind and have more mastery and control over themselves and give themselves the empowerment that enables them to change and enables our society and environment to change for the better. A certain mount of deep muscle relaxation and rest is important for relieving stress and clearing the mind.
Deep muscle relaxation is profoundly important for health due to its effects on many body systems and in general meditation has an effect on the immune system enhancing it, enabling the person to respond to all stresses with greater poise.
The Faculty of Consciousness
Stanislav Grof said we can have access to every single entity and consciousness in the universe. We have that facility of being. We also have to understand that as well as that potential power, we also have within us, pure consciousness. Silence is an extremely potent carrier of presence in the access to pure consciousness and awareness of the self and total being.
It is important to be aware of the gaps between and underneath the words. Even in noise there is always silence in between and underneath the sounds. This is the living realisation of your consciousness and enables you to access with awareness the deepest inspiration and creativity that you are capable of.
Humanity's future lies in our ability to access the sub-conscious that we may actualise our creativity into manifest sustainable inspirational forms.
As we begin to follow this path we begin to ask questions such as:
- Who am I?
- Where do I come from?
- What is the purpose of my life's journey?
- What is my mission and quest?
- How do I reconcile these ideas and questions with living in the present?
Then we have to realise that the present in fact encompasses the totality and that we are all related and connected.
- Are you recording your dreams and eating organic food, drinking pure water, relaxing, breathing fresh air, having walks, meeting friends and being with the family?
- Do you also move and have exercise?
Moving the body is essential for maintaining mind and body communication. The body is like a self sharpening razor which will maintain itself if it is operated in a proper fashion.
- Do you do yoga or jogging, aerobics, tai chi, dancing, Aikido, Feildenkreis etc?
- Do you take care with your nutrition?
- Do you try and avoid eating refined starches and sugars which are empty calories as they may cause emotional upsets in people?.
You may need to avoid dairy or wheat. You may need to increase your fruit, salad or vegetable intake and increase the amount of fish in your diet so that you have more unsaturated fatty acids which are really good for increasing the functioning of your brain.
- Do you eat your meals at schedule and do you chew your food properly?
- Do you also ensure that your living and working environments are healthy and clean and illuminated with daylight?
Wellness is promoted by an environment that is supportive physically and personally.
- Do you experience participation what the greater whole?
- Do you have people, pets, plants to relate to?
- Do you have a special friend or partner who is very close to you that you can confide in?
- Do you have a connection with a group of people who you feel you belong to?
- Do you have connection with the infinite intelligence and consciousness of the universe itself?
Conversation, laughing and talking and being hugged is a good way to enhance your wellbeing as is singing or playing an instrument. We need to be opened up in order to express our sense of happiness and truth in our lives.
WORKING WITH SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A lot of people around you are depressed. One in three people are depressed and young people especially are prone to depression and suicidal thoughts. This is probably because of the food that we eat and the fact that we live in such alienating and anomic communities. Cities are very anonymous places. People feel lonely and do not know how to satisfy their urges and desires for emotional fulfillment and activity. The body and mind are constantly seeking for new gratification's and an untrained mind is never still because it wishes to grab onto one thing or another. In our society young people aren't taught how to still the mind and how to have mastery over their lives. They are not taught how to feel joy, pleasure and beauty or experience the subtlety of things. This is a society of instant satisfaction and gratification. This is why young people are often street wise at a very young age, although this may often be a veneer below which is the sensitive human being.
- To what extent can you help the needs of people around you by being setting an example?
We are in a system which is geared to planned obscelesence which delights the band-aid approaches in order to gain money to satisfy the needs of a powerful elite. We live in a society which is economically rationalist and has concerns only for the economy and sees people as necessary fodder for collateral damage for the large transnational companies.
We have to understand that as individuals we are important and that we can make a difference to this planet which is being eroded and destroyed by greed, exploitation and a lack of knowledge of the interconnectedness of things.
This is why we need to stand up and be counted. We need to tell people about what they can do and how they can bring out their truth and stop getting ill. We need to work for a more open and skillful society. We need to create more dialogues and more awareness of the happiness and beauty in life.
- What can we do?
We can have meetings and seminars. We can talk to other people. We can grow herbs, plant trees. We can take in animals, feed the birds, swim with the dolphins and play with children. We can walk or run along the beach and explore the exciting wilderness of the World, be it in the mountains, the desert, forests, or lakes. We can immerse ourselves in nature and gain great insight into the mystery of the universe through this. We can share our own stories, make poetry, sing an dance and laugh and play as we work together as a cooperative and nurturing community.
We have to celebrate the existence in our ability to be consciously knowing and realise that we are indeed beings of light and life.
The Global Citizens For Peace supports the people of our local communities. Its aim is to go out to the community to promote healthy ways of living, thinking and being that we may contribute towards a more wholesome society. It seeks to empower the individual and give them the knowledge that they may create mastery of their lives and seek for alternatives if they are not happy with what they are doing at the moment.
We ask people to speak out against economic rationalism and injustice to the poor and disabled, seeking for an education for all and particularly concentrating on preventative and health promotion activities.
We seek to enhance the sustainable framework of society in industrial and environmental practices. When buying goods and products please check to see that these products are environmentally sound, biodegradable, recyclable and not over packaged.
The Global Citizens For Peace supports responsible business and labour ethics, good work relationships, equal opportunities and organisations with a good environmental history.
Our aim is to get education and healing into the community so that they are aware of what is going on locally and globally so that we may all stand up at one time to make a change in order that we will survive into the future in a sustainable peaceful and glorious way.
Albert Einstein said 'we cannot solve the problems of the world with mechanisms but only be changing the hearts and minds of man and by speaking courageously.'
The Global Citizens For Peace is an open forum and dialogue on peace and is a plea for men and women to open their hearts and minds to what it really is to be a human being.
We need to help construct a new vision of peace by developing a peace culture. Humans cannot work for a future they cannot imagine. Our task is to devise a vision in which we can all have faith. Peace is a mode of behaviour, a deep path of commitment to the principles of liberty, justice, equality and solidarity amongst all human beings. It is a harmonious partnership of humankind with the environment.