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This guided visualization takes you through a process about living an integrated life. There is a section in it about dealing with the expectations of your work place whether self-imposed or otherwise.

I encourage you to read the visualization then close your eyes to work your way through it. If you need to open your eyes to remind yourself of the next step, please do so. Then close your eyes and continue with the visualization.

1. Get comfortable in a quiet location. I like to sit with my feet flat on the floor and my hands resting in my lap with the palms up and open. Having your feet on the floor helps you to root in the earth. Having your palms open indicates your willingness to receive. If you have physical challenges and my preferred position is uncomfortable, please choose the location and position that works best for you.

2. Now, notice your breathing. Follow your breath as you breathe in and as you breathe out. Breathe in easily and gently. Breathe out easily and gently. Take several easy, gentle breaths. Now, gradually deepen your breathing. Follow your breath as you breathe in and as you breathe out deeply and completely. Now, give yourself permission to relax. Feel yourself relax.

3. Now, take this opportunity to reflect on your life. As you continue to relax, take look back over the past week of you life. How would you describe it? Are you living an "integrated" life? That means making conscious choices and having time for each part of your life. Or would you say you are "sleepwalking" through your life. That means life has become busy. You are spending your time trying to keep up. You are making few conscious choices. Or are you somewhere in between? That means in some parts of your life you make conscious choices while in others you are sleepwalking through your life.

4. Now, take a few deep cleansing breaths. Breathe in through your nose. Now, breathe out forcefully through your mouth. With each cleansing breath, let yourself release any tensions or concerns that may have arisen when you reviewed the past week of your life. Take 3 cleansing breaths and feel yourself release easily and gently.

5. Now, open your consiousness to all the wisdom that is available to you. What small steps can you take to live a more integrated life? Notice as the ideas present themselves to you. Know that you will remember each idea when this guided visualization is over. Continue to allow the ideas to come into your consciousness. When the flow of ideas has stopped, allow yourself to relax once more.

6. Now, look over the list of ideas that came to you. Which ones would be easy for you to implement? Which ones would take a bit more effort? Now, imagine yourself implementing one of the simpler ideas. Where are you? Who is involved? What time of day is it? What are you wearing? What can you see? What can you hear? What can you taste? What can you smell? What can you touch? What are you doing? Imagine the situation in great detail. See yourself successfully implementing your chosen strategy. What does this success mean to you? Take a moment to savour your success.

7. Now, do you feel tied to work due to a smart phone? If yes, continue with this guided visualization. If no, go to the last step and begin your return to regular consciousness. Now, back to the smart phone: do you do this on your own or is it an expectation of your workplace? If this is something that you do on your own, ask yourself if being "on call" is in your highest good. If you have a family, is it in their highest good? Do you give up anything in the rest of your life by being tied to work?

8. Now, if you received guidance that being tied to work through your smart phone is in your highest good, take a few deep breaths and relax. You can then go to the last step and begin your return to regular consciousness. However, if you received guidance that changes are needed, open your consiousness and ask for guidance about the steps you can take. Know that you will remember the guidance you receive when this guided visualization is over.

9. Now, these next steps are for those of you who keep your smart phone with you and on after hours because it is an expectation of your workplace. Open your consciousness and ask what, if anything, can be done at this time to address this situation at your workplace. Your guidance may say that nothing can be done at this time. You can ask the question again later and see if circumstances have changed.

10. Now, if you received guidance about steps that could be taken at your workplace, ask for guidance about which strategy to implement first. Let the answer come into your consciousness. Now, imagine yourself putting this strategy into action. Now, imagine yourself implementing this strategy. Where are you? Who is involved? What time of day is it? What are you wearing? What can you see? What can you hear? What can you taste? What can you smell? What can you touch? What are you doing? Imagine the situation in great detail. See yourself successfully implementing your chosen strategy. What does this success mean to you? Take a moment to savour your success.

11. Now, begin your journey back to regular consciousness. Begin to notice your surroundings. Notice any noises in your surroundings. Notice where you are sitting. Notice your breathing. When you are ready, return to regular consiousness. Stretch and open your eyes, ready for whatever comes next in your day. Know that you will remember the guidance and ideas your received during this guided visualization.

Note: If your guidance told you that there is a better time to work on the issue of smart phones, I encourage you to use this guided visualization again in a few weeks or months. Circumstances may change at your work place and make it possible to implement strategies to cut the ties to work through smart phones after work hours.

To freedom of choice and an integrated lifestyle,
Karen

© 2010 SPIRIT Connections

"I wish you enough!"
A message of Hope...stories from the road.
Essays, parables and rare moments of clarity.
By Bob Perks
Copyright 2010 Bob Perks

Hello, my friend!
Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's!
Those of you who have been reading my work for a
year or more, know that every Father's Day I visit
my father's grave and sing "Danny Boy" to him.
I have since 1998. In case you were wondering I will again.

As we head into the weekend and Father's Day, I
needed to take time to show my appreciation to
a great guy I happen to call my brother.

There's ten years difference between us, so his childhood
and mine were starkly different. I was born in 1950.
He was born in 1940. The 40's were difficult times.

I never really knew the tough times growing up but
through the years I've come to know how diffiicult they
were for him.

Oddly, I think he became the man he is today not in spite
of those times, but because he had to learn the hard way.
He took what he had and made the very best out of it.

He was also blessed with one super dedicated, loving
and creative wife. Perhaps his real reason to make it all
work out for the best. I don't believe he could have done
it without her.

I make no excuses for my sentimental tribute today.
He is the best father I know.
My best to you always and all ways,
Bob and Marianne

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"He may not have heard "I love you!"
By Bob Perks
He worked hard all of his life.

Not just laboring to pay the bills,
but larboring with the idea that he was
even worthy to be called Dad.

You see, he came from a difficult upbringing.
His father rode him like a truck. From the
moment he was able to get a job, his father
told him what job to take and how much to work.
That left little time for any kind of social life
a high school boy would need.

Although his father loved him, he would never tell
him. I guess he thought it was just understood.
It wasn't. Maybe it was because his father never
told him. Things like this are sometimes passed
on instead of changed.

Either way it laid heavy on this young man
right through adulthood.

He sometimes worked three jobs while trying to
raise a family. That meant he would never be
educated beyond high school and having three
children would take every dollar they had.

Vacations? Somehow they always pulled them
off. They may not have been at the Grand Hotel
but they made memories of the grandest proportions
from one end of the country to the other.

All three kids grew up to be happy, successful adults.

Now, in his retirement years, he and his incredible
wife have taken to finally enjoying life. They both
struggle with serious medical problems. You would
never really notice. I tell everyone they are the happiest
couple I know.

He may not have become the CEO of a large corporation.
He did become the CEO of a great family blessed with
grandchildren and grand dogs, too.

He may not have made a fortune in the stock market.
But he took stock in his future and it paid off in the love
of his family.

He may not have built a new home on hundreds of acres,
but he bought and paid for one a corner lot in a great community
...a place they call home.

He may not have finally heard "I love you!" from his father.
But he hears it from me every chance I can tell him.

He learned to be one great father the hard way.
Happy Fathers Day..."I love you, Tom!"

"I wish you enough,
J
Bob Perks

There's never been a better time for the world to consider
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God knows we've gained so little in pursuit of having
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"When having more leaves you empty, you discover true happiness
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Is the earth becoming overpopulated? It is not a question of the human population outstripping resources, since food production continues to exceed population growth and non-renewable resources become more plentiful each year as new sources are found.

Even in sheer numbers, though, there is growing evidence that the world's population is heading toward stability.

* The growth rate of the world's population appears to have peaked around 1970, when the annual rate of growth was 2.09 percent.
* By 1980, annual population growth was down to 1.73 percent, and by 1990 to 1.7 percent.
* By 1995, the annual increase had slowed even more to 1.5 percent.

What is sometimes meant by overpopulation is overcrowding, or too great a population density. However, population density varies widely. Much of the world's land surface is empty, and many countries with dense populations have a higher standard of living than less crowded countries.

* In 1992, the population of Hong Kong City was approximately 247,501 per square mile, while in New York City it was 11,480 per square mile, and in Houston 7,512.
* If the entire population of the world were put into the land area of Texas, each person would have an area equal to the floor space of a typical U.S. home and the population density of Texas would be about the same as Paris, France.
* In 1988, China had a population of 409 people per square mile and gross domestic product per capita of $320, while Hong Kong, with a population density more than 450 times greater, had a per capita GDP of $8,260.

One reason people are crowded together in cities is because it makes possible many more exchanges and greater specialization of labor, thus increasing living standards.

Source: Jim Peron, "Exploding Population Myths," Fraser Forum, October 1995, Fraser Institute, 2nd Floor, 626 Bute Street, Vancouver, B. C., V6E 3M1, (604) 688-0221.

The following video was produced by the Population Research Institute.


Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth

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We try to read and learn from many books, audios and videos about how to master the the Art of Communication. In this series of Factoids about Creative Communication, we will discuss this very essential part of our life. You see, the creative thinking and arts need a different kind of communication. The interaction is what we learn; however the communication is not learning as we can borrow knowledge, not the experience and feelings.

Our feelings need words. How difficult it is to find words for the creatively rich feelings, the scientific feelings. You see we all have many creative arts and these are mostly in nonverbal form–for example the music, songs, and poems are just an interaction. These are means for communication. We firstly learn to interact and communicate with nature, and then with the family and society.

Thus, social communication needs the essence of the art of our communicating with nature. If this natural communication is brought to social communication, the emergence of creative communication takes place naturally. The taste of the social communication without creativity is not the joy of conversation and thus socialization. There can be many definitions for what and where to say the known words from the learnt or borrowed knowledge.

However, our concern is the scientific feelings that we can have from the creative art of management of the words for giving the scientific feelings and the creative thinking and thus the creative communication metaphorically. Sociology is the subject matter that is not just a set of theories that we learn and use for social communication. We then may remain a common person, who knows how to socialize by the means of knowledge, which is creatively innovative.

Therefore, we may be a different and rather a unique person if we learn to be creative in socialization. For example, we all know how to walk and run, but it does not make us a sportsperson unless and until we master these skills. The same is true with socialization; we are able to interact–talking; speaking and listening with what we have learnt, while trying to hide the talents that nature has bestowed with us. These are to enjoy the plants, tress, animals and the beauty of nature, which we may not enjoy in the interactions with our fellow humans.

The words have the hidden meanings and feelings and it depends how we use these words, so for the scientific feelings we transcend to the high level of the words healing our moods; the storehouse of our creativity, which if we learn to use it, breaks the disorders of the moods. As the words of creativity evoke our moods with creative thinking, and it is not possible to do so without the metaphorical touch, the essence of metaphysical philosophy of sociology.

The whole of the process needs the involvement of the self and the conscience, in which our conscience helps to select and decide the words for creative thinking and scientific feelings.

To read more and thus the entire series of 15 articles, the factoids, please click here. Thanks!