Deep Breaths

Deep, coherent, measured breaths. You'll be amazed what this can do for you. I've been doing this, cultivating feelings of joy and appreciation as well and I know it has helped me deal with what's going on in the world.  The planetary shift is upon us in bigger, more radical waves and we can't be swayed by fear and hysteria, and that is difficult to do because we are facing monumental challenges. These challenges have a lot to do with humanity waking up to a new world--a new consciousness.  There is much death and destruction, but it is also a time for great renewal and creativity.

We can be co-creators of this change if we harness our inner resources.  In Japan, despite the destruction, people are coming together in such profound ways.  Food is being left on doorsteps, people are constantly checking on one another. Everyone is suddenly grateful for the little things they used to take for granted. Countries are coming together. Everywhere, people are reaching out to each other, which I firmly believe is exactly what is needed in order for the shift to take place more smoothly.

It will not be an easy ride, but if we keep working on ourselves and strengthening that in us which always prevails, we will be the bridge towards this new world.  Scary, yes, but also very exciting.

Those of us who have heart and home intact, would do well to redirect (if we haven't already) our lives and start living it out of our true purpose, whatever it is. There is not one more day to lose.

Deep breaths and march on!

Political Will!!!

Look at this!  I was so happy when I saw this at the Alabang Town Center yesterday.  This bread shop was closed apparently because it just went on using plastic. Hmmmph. I'm so glad the local government did this to show they mean business.

This is a good start and I hope that retail establishments do the right thing.  We already know that too much plastic--plastic bags, especially--harm the environment, yet many stores wait until there is a law to do something about it. There are stores that use paper bags in branches covered by this law, but who continue to use plastic in areas where there is no law. Bad. That's just plain moral laziness. We keep bickering about our government, but this is one instance where I feel they're doing a great job, but now the people have to get with the program.

Get with it!

WhiteSpace LOVE!

Activating Your Heart's Intelligence

                                            

I hope it's not too late to get you to jump on this. Here in Manila the course starts in a little over an hour, but I just got this in the mail yesterday and jumped on it. I believe this is the way of the future and I hope to catch you there.

THIS SUNDAY!!! DON'T MISS IT!!

Customer Service

I was at The Gap in Alabang this morning and the staff were talking about their personal lives, teasing each other and bantering, as if there were no customers. They were talking and laughing out loud and they were across each other, so that one had a sense there was a private party going on, from which we, the customers, were excluded. I noticed people coming in, browsing, looking at the salespeople, and then leaving. I left and went through Rustan's and it was the same story. A salesman was bickering to someone about how difficult it is to help people who are ungrateful in turn. Out loud. Really out loud and long.

In S&R, it was the same thing.  The cashiers were just talking to each other and ringing up my stuff as if I were invisible. It's the body language that bugs me, too. They're all animated in their eyes and smiles as they talk to each other, but sluggish in their limbs and bodies as they do their work.

Some will say that we ought to just leave them alone because they don't have the best jobs in the world, but I maintain that whatever job you have, you must make an effort to do well. I worked as a salesperson in the States, at different establishments, and I was too busy working all the time to be chatting my life away. Here, most establishments are so overstaffed; there's a lot of idle time for everyone and people tend to be sluggish and lazy because their work comes in fits and starts and then there's lots of time in between. To chat. Out loud.

If it's not the blaring music that drives you out, it's the gunfire chatting and blatant disregard of your presence. They will greet you, this much I will say, then they drag you into their virtual households and there you will stay until you remember all you wanted to do was shop.

TAGORE, RIZAL, STEINER