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Quotes That Make You Go Hmmm…
“Dreams are illustrations
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5 Non-Verbal Messages You May Be Sending – Everyday
From the moment you rise, the day’s conversations begin:
“Will you be able to drive the kids to soccer tonight?”
“Have you got your homework?”
“Where did you last see it?”
“Have a great day.”
“The report is on my desk.”
“How can I help you?”
“Did you hear the latest?”
…and the conversations continue until bedtime only to begin again with the morning’s alarm.
Our daily lives are filled with questions and answers, statements and recounts, but have you considered what else you are saying?
Have you ever:
- shushed someone who has entered the room anxious to speak to you but you’re watching television so you signal them to sit then only respond to them during a commercial?
- told your kids you’re too busy to read to them or play a game or help with their homework when you’re checking your emails and reading the latest jokes being passed around?
- rushed in front of someone, swung open the door and passed through it quickly, allowing the door to swing closed behind you?
- rolled your eyes at someone else’s comments?
- carried on a text conversation with someone when you are out for dinner with someone else?
…and the list does not stop here. It could continue for pages.
We all likely do these things from time to time – I know I have, and on more than one occasion I am not proud to admit (although I try only to do the last one for child-related reasons).
What we aren’t conscious of in these moments of seemingly insignificant, non-verbal interactions, is the effect we are having on the recipient. We are saying to them:
You Are Not Important To Me.
Through grimaces, snorts, smirks, body postures, dropping eye-contact, turning our heads, turning our backs, walking away, we make thousands of non-verbal gestures every day.
Of course not all non-verbal messages are negative. Smiles, winks, glimmers in your eyes, hugs, kissed, and laughter, to name a few, are all positive loving indications that the person is important.
The ratio of negative to positive is what needs to be considered.
Only by becoming mindful of these non-verbal ‘conversations’ and their impact on others, especially those we hold most dear, will we have the greatest chance for meaningful positive impacts on our future interactions, building toward strong positive relationships.
What non-verbal messages have you sent or received?
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Tagged communication, grateful, happiness, inspiration, inspiring, motivation, philosophy, positive, positivity
Positive Ponderings: What’s Your Role?
If all the world’s a stage,
what’s your role?
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Tagged challenge, grateful, happiness, inspiration, inspiring, musings, philosophy, positive, positivity
Bright-Side of the Web: How to Regain Your Gratitude
This beautiful video reminds us how to appreciate
all that is around us.
video credit: YouTube
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Tagged grateful, happiness, inspiration, inspiring, Louie Schwartzberg, motivation, philosophy, positive, positivity
Quotes That Make You Go Hmmm…
“A wise man pays attention
to what is said
but listens to what goes unsaid.”
~Ryan Steyn
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Bright-Side of the Web: Sue Austin
Proof that we are bound simply by our own limitations.
Video credit: http://www.ted.com
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Tagged challenge, grateful, happiness, inspiration, inspiring, motivation, philosophy, positive, positivity, Sue Austin
Quotes That Make You Go Hmmm…
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“If someone shows you
their true colors,
don’t try to repaint them.”
Taina, NYC Poet
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Do You Want To Be Famous?
What do Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise, and Mother Teresa have in common?
They are all famous.
But famous for what? What classifies someone as famous?
According to the Oxford Dictionary, ‘famous’ is defined as: “known about by many people” while ‘fame’ is defined as: “the condition of being known or talked about by many people, esp. on account of notable achievements”.
Let’s start with Kim Kardashian. What in the h-e-double-toothpicks is so special about her? Where did she come from and how in the heck did she get to be so known about by many people? What has she contributed to society? What are her notable achievements?
Tom Cruise – this one is a bit easier. Jockey-shorts-dancing ’80’s teen heart-throb turned action-star turned couch-jumper turned questionable. He certainly mastered the talked about by many people portion of fame and now with his current situation the conversation continues.
Mother Teresa would appear to epitomize the Oxford definitions of both ‘famous’ and ‘fame’. Her name known by all, both pre and posthumously, she embodied goodness and faith in humanity. Her notable achievements are innumerable. Her effect on society continues beyond her life. A legacy of hope, love, compassion and fortitude.
So, the next time someone asks: Do you want to be famous? Before answering, define what fame means to you.
For me, if famous means that I have attained my fame based on achievements that leave a legacy for the benefit of mankind; that I have contributed to society in a positive and lasting way; and that I am known about by many people because of those acts, then the answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’.
Do you want to be famous? What does fame mean for you?
Share below.
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Tom: flickr.com/photos/lewishamdreamer/135017580/
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Tagged famous, grateful, gratitude, inspiration, inspiring, Kim Kardashian, Mother Teresa, motivation, philosophy, positive, positivity, Tom Cruise
Bright-Side of the Web: Landfill Harmonic
“The world sends us garbage.
We send back music.”
Favio Chavez
Orchestra Director
An inspiring video about very resourceful young musicians.
Below, share your thoughts about this video.
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How To Tune Into Your Sub-Conscious
I wonder what percentage of people have a song in their head – ALWAYS.
I’m not talking about an ‘earworm’; a catchy popular song or jingle that is over-played on the radio and works it’s way into your head and repeats for the day. I’m talking about a line or a lyric of any song, from any era, at any moment of any day, that is playing often on a loop – a seemingly endless loop. Sometimes the same song will play for days.
Do you know what I’m talking about?
Are you one of those people?
I am. I don’t know when it started but I noted it in my teens.
For me, if there is a song on the radio, that becomes the song in my head but once the radio is off, my internal frequency picks up its own signal and the beat goes on. Perhaps this is why I don’t often turn on the radio, throw on a CD or plug in my iPod while I’m alone in the house. There is no need for external music when the internal juke box is playing my song.
Once, while on a camping trip deep within protected wilderness grounds, I suddenly noticed an absence of internal tunes. I literally stopped what I was doing, aware of the foreign silence. The next day as we drove toward the park’s boundary, the music returned. It was both welcome and not.
I’ve often wondered why that happened or why myself and others, yet not everyone, have this ability or anomaly.
Are we some sort of radio receivers?
When I approach a radio, often the signal will go off frequency and return once I move away. I joke that it is my animal magnetism that is causing the fluctuation but I wonder if I am emitting an electro-magnetic field from all the gunk I’ve absorbed from the state of the environment we live in today.
At one time I was seeing a naturopath and I mentioned to her of my constant sonatas and she responded very sincerely that I should pay close attention to this internal music for it is a porthole to my subconscious – particularly upon waking.
Each morning that I awoke unassisted by the radio, including if I were to awake in the middle of the night, I was to note what song, and particularly which line or lyric was playing in my head. This would be a window to my soul. An indication of what my true thoughts and feelings were given whatever was happening in my life at the time.
This has become a habit and has proved most insightful.
I don’t remember many of my dreams and dream interpretation, although very interesting, is in my opinion very subjective. For instance, if I dream about swimming, could that simply mean I like swimming, or could it mean something deep like I am infantile and am swimming in the womb, or could it mean that I am feeling like I am drowning and am trying to get a way from some stress in my life?
But paying attention to the line or lyric that is playing in my head upon waking has at times surprised me, often confirming a far off feeling, and has provided ah-ha moments like no dream interpretation ever has.
So perhaps it has nothing to do with radio reception and I can stop worrying that an alien civilization will one day make contact through me via their inter-stellar FM station.
Perhaps it means that I am so out of sync with my true feeling that I have these constant messages trying to get me to pay attention and perhaps those few days in the park, where I was relaxed and at peace, there was no need for a skipping record to play the same line over and over telling me how I was feeling because I was taking a break from the daily grind and was actually letting feelings filter in.
Or perhaps it means that I am so in tune (no pun intended) with my subconscious that I am in constant sync with it. A highly involved individual – prime for alien connection.
Regardless of my evolutionary state, Waking Lyric Observance (my phrase) has helped me note the negatives in my life and therefore aided me in being able to confront them allowing positivity to shine through.
And after all, having a constant melody to accompany your daily tasks is like living in a movie – my own personal soundtrack – and that’s pretty positive, for the most part.
If you are like me, pay attention to the lyrics that repeat in your head. It may bring a whole new meaning to waking up!
Bring on the music and dance! The aliens are waiting.







