What we focus on gets bigger – on the world stage it’s created by mass hypnosis!
Basic law of our Universe, ever loving and giving, simply gives us more of what we focus on. Doesn’t judge or condemn, it gently accumulates more and more of ‘stuff’ we’re putting attention on – wanted or unwanted!
Media People understand how the brain works. ‘News at Ten’ is a classic example:
Mosques and temples are helping to assist the elderly and the vulnerable in their towns and cities.
As the countrywide lockdown takes hold within the first week many religious and community organisations have been helping ALL members of their community.
The army of volunteers have been collecting food and essentials to ensure those people that need the most help at this time of crisis are being cared for.
At many times they are putting themselves in harm’s way.
The Bolton Hindu Forum said they are leading ‘a joint Coordinated Community Help Program to look after elders living alone and who have no immediate family and those who have family but they are out of town and not able to help as they would in normal circumstances’.
The Masjide Noorul Islam (Blackburn) have already recruited 250 people to help the elderly and vulnerable in isolation.
Kamal Hussein’s story is in Kutupalong, world’s largest refugee settlement – late August 2017, thousands of refugees arriving daily. Many children were separated from parents and Hussein’s mission was to reunite families.
Hussein decided to act after a woman asked for help finding her child.
“I rented a microphone” relaying a description. His broadcasts worked – someone returned the child; his mission was born.
Charities gave audio equipment and a booth to broadcast the names of separated children and urge parents to collect them.
“The new refugees don’t know the camp, they get lost here,”
Myanmar’s campaign of persecution and violence drove 740,000+ stateless Rohingya from their Rakhine homes. Now, 1,000,000+ Rohingya are in Bangladesh.
A refugee himself, he was separated from his parents when a boy.
“As a child, I had a lot of pain in my life but doing this work, I feel at peace with myself.”
www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2019/11/5dc3fd334/rohingya-mans-mission-reunite-parents-lost-children-new-film.html
Photo – A younger Manu Berardi demonstrating against local tree destruction by Developers
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/lgbt_in_britain_-_trans_report_final.pdf
In the Dalai Lama’s most recent writing, A Call For Revolution published in 2018, he says
“I am calling on you to bring on a cultural revolution of compassion!”
“When I call on you to bring on the Revolution of Compassion, I am calling for the mother of all uprisings to begin.”
Speaking to all humans as Citizens of the Earth, he says,
“The problems facing you, whether to do with climate change, violence in general and terrorism in particular, were not created by God, Buddha or extra-terrestrials. They did not fall from the sky, or rise up from the ground. Humanity is entirely responsible for being at the root of the problems that have caused these crises. Which is good news. Because if we have created these problems, it is logical to believe we have the means to resolve them.”
On March 15th 2019, in 25 countries around the world, an uprising of people from all walks of life began taking non-violent direct action in a bid to save our planet from catastrophe. In London, Waterloo Bridge was turned into a garden, Marble Arch became a campsite and learning centre, Parliament Square an information centre, Oxford Circus a speaker’s platform, Piccadilly Circus a youth centre. Songs from the soul, rhymes of reason, music of love and hope, theatre of passionate pleas were played out through the streets of our capital city.
This rebellion was a culmination of many years of the peaceful work of many individuals and small groups of citizens of this earth, who wish to see her beauty and nature thrive for future generations.
We do not all wish to be rebels, activists or protesters. There are many ways to quietly join with those of like-mind and create change……..
June 2019
May 2019
Being outdoors has huge benefits for children, both physically and mentally, and the growing network of Forest Schools aims to tap into those benefits by educating children in the fresh air. Forest School and nature based learning has now become very established in the UK with more than 12,00 trained leaders.
Forest School offers children and young adults:
The inspiration to be curious, fascinated, interested and inventive.
The freedom to explore different ways of ‘being’, feeling, behaving and interacting.
The opportunity to:
Experience beauty and wonder in the woodland and become ‘lost in the experience’
Gain confidence through learning new skills
Develop imagination and creativity
Meet challenges and learn to handle risk in safety
Feel relief from stress and anxiety
Develop their spirituality through a sense of awe at the natural environment.
Increase their autonomy and independence
Take responsibility for own learning and building self confidence
Forest School: 9 ways children benefit from learning and playing outside
March 2019