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    How to say thankyou in any language.

    I wonder why I omit to say thank you and the moment passes because I can't find the words to express that simple expression. Sometimes it is because I feel shy and insignificant at others I do not want to make a sound and interrupt those I would thank. Here is a short video clip aimed at thanking...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 11-19-2008
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    Is there a change wave speading?

    I have been on the road for a couple of weeks meeting potential partners for Aliveworld and networking with other people involved in change based initiatives in the USA and UK. And I am enormously encouraged by what I am finding. In the last couple of years there has been a significant increase in projects...
    Posted to Ivan's musings (Weblog) by Ivan Sokolov on 11-06-2008
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    Aliveworld good for your brain?

    Dr. Gary Small is a professor and researcher at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Recently he has been conducting research that suggests that challenging yourself by doing searches and interacting online shows an increase in activity in the area of the brain that has to...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 10-21-2008
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    Movement and laughter

    I was reminded last night, while at at a friends birthday party, how freeing and uplifting it is to dance and laugh. "Going out" occasions for me are often quite formal, where subdued chuckles are common but a full letting go belly laugh is seldom heard. So being at a relaxed party with friends...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 10-03-2008
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    Feeling a stressed and under pressure

    The feeling of having a lot to do and a time frame too tight before I even begin is causing me concern. I know that if everything goes smoothly I can achieve the goals, although it will mean not haivng time to pause between tasks. Knowing that a glitch in one area will mean I need to be even better than...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 09-26-2008
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    Stress, Addiction, and Drilling for Oil

    Regardless of what your financial assets are--whether you have investments in the stock market, or just a few dollars in the bank--you are feeling the stresses of our collapsing system. I wrote sometime ago about my belief that the Ship of Civilization was sinking. "Just as the Titanic was thought...
    Posted to Jed's Blog (Weblog) by Jed Diamond on 09-19-2008
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    Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Stress?

    Politics is exciting for many. Now with television, blogging, text messaging, twitter, and other new techi gadgets we can be plugged into it 24X7. It's easy for some to get addicted to it to a point where the body feels tense, we notice irritability coming up, and before you know it you're stressed...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 09-04-2008
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    Building strong communities

    "For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other". Millard Fuller Lets aim for building whole healthy communities. Share your stories and your insights and show how much you care. I really value this space to be able to express how this...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 08-29-2008
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    Be Impulsive!

    "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." William James (1842 - 1910) Some things never change - this is still relevant today, so lets start being impulsive and post a blog, make a comment or reply to a forum...
    Posted to Parkes ponders (Weblog) by Helen Parkes on 08-21-2008
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    Happiness and Dung

    Is it really true that people can live in an area with no running water or electricity and dwell in huts made out of dung and be equally as happy as those listed on the Forbes richest 400 Americans? According to leading happiness researcher Ed Diener it is true. He conducted a study of the Forbes richest...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 08-11-2008
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