Feel Good Friday...Acts of Kindness

Feel Good Friday…Acts of Kindness

Tomorrow, November 13th is world kindness day. I didn’t know that. Maybe you didn’t either. The following video is an exploration of what it means to be kind. Beautiful pictures and a lovely song from Enya create a beautiful video exploration. Here at Relentless Martial Arts we require 15 acts of kindness for each belt level for every test and 300 for black belt candidates. This is an important part of understanding your place in the world and how you can be part of something even larger than yourself.
For myself, I side with the Dalai Lama, who is quoted as saying…”My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

Go here to watch:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2172

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Feel Good Friday...The Wisdom Project

Feel Good Friday…Wisdom Project

The Wisdom Project was inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience. The project seeks to create a record of what wisdom means to a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark on the world.

What does wisdom mean to you? Not intelligence, not common sense but wisdom. For me, wisdom is knowing when to not speak. It isn’t so much as knowing what to say as it is knowing when to say it. Wisdom is a patient smile that knows the lessons that need to unfold for real learning to take place.

Enjoy the video here:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2098

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Feel Good Friday...The Girl Effect

Feel Good Friday…The Girl Effect

There are 600 million adolescent girls across the globe. Too many of them live in poverty and if things don’t change the cycle of poverty will continue on to the next generation and the next and the next.
This video explains some of that:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2106
The page has a couple links that you can visit that will give you even more information about what they are up to in order to shift this paradigm. There are other organization that are doing similar things…Heifer International comes to mind. Heifer provides domesticated animals to families (mostly women) to help lift them out the cycle of poverty. There are many ways to help end poverty and most of them don’t have much to do with throwing money at the problem! Money doesn’t empower people, education does.

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Feel Good Friday...My Own Two Hands

Feel Good Friday…My Own Two Hands

"I can change the world with my own two hands. Make a better place with my own two hands. Make a kinder place with my own two hands."

There really is no other way to change things other than with your own two hands. You are the only one who can do it. And when you begin it becomes that much easier for the next person to do it. If you want to change the world start today, right where you are with yourself.
Musician Ben Harper reminds us of how powerful we can be. Watch and dance to his video to get you in the groove to make the world a better place with YOUR own two hands.
Here it is:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2092
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Feel Good Friday...This Kid Gets It

Feel Good Friday…This Kid Gets it!

Sometimes somebody just nails it square. I mean calls it exactly like it is. In this video an 11 year old young man, Birke Baehr, nails what’s wrong with our food system. Watch the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y&feature=player_embedded

I could expound on this subject for quite a while and I think I probably will very shortly. In the meantime remember…you are what you eat and you are what the food you are eating eats. This includes plants, animals and everything in between.

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Feel Good Friday...Train Kids

Feel Good Friday…Train Kids

Thailand has over 10,000 homeless children. Here is the story of someone who is doing something about it:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1977

One man started a “Library Train” to teach and help these children out of poverty. Now it has become a collective effort to help. Sometimes you have to see a need and fill it…just because if you don’t do it, no one else will.

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Feel Good Friday...Insight Prison Project

Feel Good Friday…Insight Prison Project

In America 1 in 100 people are incarcerated. That is a lot of people. 80% of those people are going to get out of prison. If they continue to do what they have done in the past most of them will go back to prison. Sending people to prison is expensive no matter how you add it up…cost of housing, cost of the trial, coat to the victim, cost of loss to their community. And we can’t let crime happen. That cost is way too unacceptable. Obviously the best thing is to do the work before they do the crime. But after the time what do we do before we send them back out to make their way in the world? Here is a program at San Quentin that seems to be doing something right:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2046

Maybe there is hope that we can stem the tide. Now if we could spend more money on prevention than we do on punishment we could really make some progress!

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