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The following is a list of all entries from the peace category.
Filed in voter caging, Republican party, manufacturing consent, simplifying change, the super rich, super rich, Publicly funded elections, campaign finance reform, christian fundamentalists, World Peace, compassion, peace, politics, religion, truth, activism, propoganda, corporate media, media, noam chomsky, Uncategorized October 24, 2008, 5:25 pm
Were it not for the very real and serious consequences wrought by a political system that values victory over compassion, politics in the Untied States as it is currently constituted would amount to not much more than bad theater. What I find much more interesting is how the corporate media in America spins, misinforms, […]
The Solar Solution
Filed in reduce military spending, reduce military budget, jewel in the rubbish, Gore Vidal, tax the churches, legalize drugs, decriminalize drugs, tax drugs, legalize and tax drugs, Buckminster Fuller, kill your televison, drugs, peace, truth, optimism, propoganda, corporate media, positive thinking, intention, Uncategorized September 29, 2008, 8:46 pmNote from Jim:After 2 months of trying we (mostly Dave) are still unable to say with any certainty why the ability to download the audio portion of these podcasts have been so hit and miss. Rather than cease production I have decided, for the time being, to turn these podcasts into blogs. Rest assured that […]
Demystifying Healthy Relationships
Filed in spiritual health, physical health, healthy relationships, develping healthy relationships, lower stress, lower blood pressure, communication, healthy communication skills, Stuck in Wait, Claudia Black, Verbal Communication, Communication model, healthy communication, simplifying change, healthy attitudes, Stress Managment, Dr. Drew Pinsky, patience, terrorism, peace, personal development, Dr. Drew, Cracked, Proactive Stress Management, healthy behaviors, Proactive, Personal Peace, World Peace, religion July 28, 2008, 4:02 pmHuman beings are social animals; so much so, that one of the worst things that society can do to a person is to separate them from their friends and family. For example: break the law, go to jail. The mere threat of this type of punishment is enough to keep most people inside the social […]
How to Have Difficult Conversations
Filed in healthy communication skills, healthy communication, Communication model, communication, Building trust, develping healthy relationships, healthy relationships, Ernie Larson, Verbal Communication, communication process, Stuck in Wait, difficult conversations, Ernie Larsen, The Platinum Rule, trust, process of communication, addiction, lower stress, healthy attitudes, personal development, patience, tolerance, love, peace, truth, health, compassion, feelings, Proactive Stress Management, habit control, healthy behaviors, Proactive, Personal Responsibility, Stress Managment, Personal Peace, Uncategorized June 26, 2008, 5:53 pmThis is the final part of a three-part series on communication, the focus of which is using effective communication skills to reduce the stress in our lives. Previously I described the communication model, and how it’s a wonder we communicate at all. I detailed a communication process that I refer to as “mirroring.” Which is […]
Miscommunication Leads to Complications
Filed in healthy communication, The Golden Rule, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Communication model, healthy communication skills, communication, healthy relationships, spiritual health, mental health, Building trust, Verbal Communication, communication process, The Platinum Rule, drug addiction, behavioral addiction, Lauryn Hill, trust, Recovery, process of communication, Gordon Graham, self-image psychology, addiction, develping healthy relationships, lower stress, wisdom, personal development, optimism, Change Managment, drugs, joy, truth, health, peace, love, empathy, tolerance, Personal Peace, healthy behaviors, healthy attitudes, simplifying change, World Peace, Anger Management, compassion, actions, Anger Managment, Stress Managment, Uncategorized April 23, 2008, 8:08 pm
Lauryn Hill, on her 1998 CD The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, sang that “miscommunication leads to complications“. Relating to personal and world Peace, truer words were never spoken, sung or rapped. There’s a process that verbal communication goes through, and when you consider what happens in that process, it’s a wonder that we communicate at […]
When Your Feet Hurt, Everything Hurts
Filed in either/or mentality, universal life force, develping healthy relationships, autoimmune system, lower blood pressure, healthy attitudes, simplifying change, lower stress, healthy relationships, Ernie Larson, healthy communication skills, healthy communication, The Golden Rule, communication, Building trust, spiritual health, mental health, physical health, healthy behaviors, Low self esteem, personal development, self esteem, optimism, wisdom, meditation, health, peace, love, Change Managment, Reticular activating system, Personal Peace, Proactive, Proactive Stress Management, World Peace, Anger Management, Anger Managment, Stress Managment, Uncategorized March 24, 2008, 12:03 pmSince August of 2007, we have produced nine pod casts. The unifying theme in these pod casts is that world peace can become a reality when enough people find peace within their own heart. To that end, these pod casts have addressed subjects as raising our low self esteem, adopting healthier behaviors and attitudes, and […]
Dialog with Feelings
Filed in Brain Waves, Lucid Dreaming, Delta, Theta, Beta, Alpha, performance programming, dreaming programing, accelerated physical healing, kill your televison, emotional intelligence, stop smoking, past life regression, habit control, levels of consciousness, Personal Responsibility, dalai lama, visualization, personal development, wisdom, history, peace, self esteem, hypnosis, Stress Managment, Personal Peace, feelings, positive thinking, sports psychology, Uncategorized February 23, 2008, 4:17 pm
Dialog with Feelings [9:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (152) Dialog with Feelings (Induction) [11:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (140)In this podcast, I would like to share with you the most enlightening and liberating thing that I have learned in my 20 year journey of self-discovery. It’s a meditation technique called Dialog with Feelings. If you are already enjoying the benefits of a meditation practice, then I beg your patience for just a couple […]
A Recipe for Personal Peace
Filed in Anger Management, World Peace, Cracked, Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Personal Peace, Personal Responsibility, Jesus Christ, Les Brown, Proactive Stress Management, Proactive, feelings, tolerance, meditation, joy, love, peace, wisdom, personal development, patience, Reticular activating system, Change Managment, optimism, Uncategorized January 29, 2008, 11:02 pmFor 7 ½ years I taught drug- and behaviorally-addicted parolees in California life skills. It was a 120-hour course that consisted of four components: one was the disease concept of addiction; there was recovery, or behavior modification; there was building healthy relationships with healthy people; and stress and anger management. That’s the component that I […]
Putting a Man on the Moon
Filed in Eleanor Roosevelt, thoughts, feelings, Victor Frankl, Radical Responsibility, interdependence, Karma, actions, Martin Luther King Jr., man on the moon, Yinyang, NASA, President Kennedy, JFK, John F Kennedy, Neuropeptides, compassion, joy, meditation, activism, love, peace, health, spirituality, civil rights, personal development, racism, positive thinking, interdependance, optimism, self esteem, alan watts, buddhism December 26, 2007, 7:56 pmIn an earlier pod cast entitled “Low Self-Esteem is the Root of All Evil” I suggested that for thousands of years the self-confidence of the people has been systematically undermined by the various governments, churches, corporations and power brokers of their time. The simple logic behind this observation is that the more disempowered we feel […]
Jewels in the Rubbish
Filed in terrorism, empathy, The Art of Happiness, Pronoia, World Trade Center, 9-11, Reticular activating system, A People's History of the United States, sociopathic behavior, Rob Brezsny, Timothy Leary, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Buckminster Fuller, compassion, William Blake, corporate media, patience, tolerance, positive thinking, media, spirituality, peace, activism, history, politics, buddhism, science, health, civil rights, wisdom, howard zinn, buckmister fuller, racism, optimism, alan watts, personal development, dalai lama, self esteem, truth November 27, 2007, 5:26 pmA good friend of mine once told me that nothing is entirely good or bad. I think that’s what the little dots in the yin and the yang symbol represent – that everything has the potential for its opposite within it. The Buddhists have a saying, “When you find a jewel in the rubbish, treasure […]
