EMPOWER PEACE

WHAT IS EMPOWER PEACE?

JANE MORALES

MEDITATION MASTER &HOLISTIC COUNSELOR

What is Empower Peace???

Empower Peace is the place to find and learn about achieving inner Peace through the practice of love, meditation, compassion and zen living.

Meditation: Good for Believers and Non-Believers

Dozens of times a day, athiests pray to god and devout believers in God deny His existence. Everyone, including athiests, subconsciously and consciously say things like “I hope this will happen” or “I hope that won’t occur.” This magical thinking is a form of prayer and all prayer implies a belief in a higher power who is able to receive the prayer and grant its request. Similarly, when anyone, even a person who professes belief in a God, expresses a belief that evil will overcome good or even that there is something “wrong” in their life, they have in fact denied their God’s omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, etc.

Taking these odd truths as further demonstration that the average person is very much in need of alot of inner help that only meditation brings, it is the position of the Meditation Society of America that a practicioner need not believe in God to gain benefits from meditation. In fact, by meditating, an athiest could become aware of their hypocritical prayers and a believer could see the contradictory nature of their verbalizations of doubts about God.

There are many meditation techniques, such as the “Prayer Meditation”, that have been handed down through the centuries specifically to unite the meditator with his God, to teach him how to serve Him or Her better, or some such goal that would be inapplicable to an athiestic practicioner. So, although some of the techniques may mention God, it is the position of the Meditation Society of America to neither encourage or discourage anyone, of any belief or religious background from using or agreeing to any of the methods or concepts we share. We simply want to make them available and hope they will help.

As has been expressed many times, in may ways, by many wise beings, there are many paths to Peace. We’ll to show them to you and will never imply that any one of them is the best or only one. As you grow and evolve in consciousness, the entire universe gains and evolves as well, so we all benefit.

Meditation is the best way to achieve this growth and evolution and we suggest you try it and hope you find it beneficial.

Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.

For so long we have been learning our life lessons, plugging away at growing, onwards and upwards, ever striving and ever thriving…

Most of us have to-do lists. Many of us have long terms goals.

Few of us have a list of how we actually want to feel in our life.

And aren’t feelings the whole point?  Positive Feeling brings us positive outcomes in our personal life and professional goals.

HOW DO YOU WANT TO FEEL IN THE CORE AREAS OF YOUR LIFE?

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And so it goes that a solid make-it-happen plan should be grounded in the awareness of how you want to feel. It’s the elemental point that most action plans and goal setting systems ignored.

The problem is that the disintegrate many of us suffer from can’t be fixed by a holiday at the beach, or a visit to a day-spa. Because it’s not just our body that’s exhausted, it’s your essence.

Discover that Wisdom within You that brings out your highest Self and Potential

Once you join Empower Peace, you will receive emails with lessons, daily affirmations and practical suggestions of how to explore the day’s particular focus.

In addition, you will learn about our workshops, online lessons and scheduling private sessions.

About Jane Morales

Jane Morales is a Certified Meditation Master & Holistic Counselor.

She holds a BS in Marketing from Bentley University in Boston and a Master of Science in Communications from Boston University. She is also working on her thesis in Vedic Sciences and a book on Meditation for Adults & Children.

In addition to her higher education, she trained in The Power of Intention, Positive Affirmations, Self-healing, Instant Inner Power, Theta DNA Healing and Living your own Success.

Prior to becoming a Meditation & Holistic Counselor, Jane worked for 10 years in the television industry with Telemundo Network and NBC Network as producer and entertainment news anchor. After years in the TV industry, she held the position of Communications Director for Cartier Jewelers International in charge of the Latin American markets. Several years later she began her own organization while training in the areas of Self Empowerment and Living in a Positive Dimension.

Jane has her practice specializing individual goal setting, parent to children relations and personal goal achievement. She works with individuals, families and children. She is founder of EmpowerPeace.com spreading techniques on how to achieve harmony & happiness in life.

A lot of the work Jane does is based on the following principles:

• Understanding the energy of thought

• Connecting with your Wisdom

• Getting to know and take control of the mind

• Taking control of life’s experiences

• Developing self-esteem

• Creating one’s own reality

• Making daily living a positive and harmonious experience

• Healthy Living and Relationships

• Listening to others before reacting

• Making positive decisions for one’s self

Eight Steps To Teach Kids Peace

1- Make room for peace at home. Outer peace begins with inner peace. Children and adults need special places that give them a sense of privacy and peace, and that can serve as a quiet refuge for times when hurt or angry feelings might lead to violent words or actions. It could be a room or just a corner, where any family member can go for quiet reflection or to work through turbulent feelings.

2- Find peace in nature. Turn off the television and the computer and go outside. Take children for a walk or let them explore nature in their own way. The beauty of nature is a great balm to the soul.

3- Make time for creative play. Young children need plenty of time for unstructured, creative play. Research indicates that make-believe social play in particular reduces aggression and increases empathy in children. Choose children's toys carefully, avoiding those that encourage or glorify violence.

4- Engage children's hands and hearts. Young children need a direct, hands-on experience of giving. They love to make things, small and large—their own cards, tree ornaments, cookies, or bread—for neighbors, family, or friends. They can learn to enjoy sorting through their own things and even giving away some treasured possessions to others in need, if it is part of a family tradition.

5- Establish a “family foundation.”Create a homemade bank for donations—a miniature family foundation. Parents, children, visitors, and friends can put money in the bank. Children can be introduced to tithing when they receive gifts, earnings, or allowance. Choose a charity together —one that has personal meaning for the children especially—to give to. As the children mature, talk to them more about the needs of the world and ways to help.

6- Support peace education at school. Urge your school to establish or strengthen peace education and conflict resolution programs. Contact Educators for Social Responsibility (www.esrnational.org) or the National Peace Foundation (www.nationalpeace.org) for ideas.

7-Encourage older students to study a conflict-ridden area of the world, looking at it from two or more perspectives. They'll learn that every conflict has many layers and that to build peace one must work respectfully with all sides.

8- Face local needs. Help children become comfortable with the people in your community who need help—the elderly, the disabled, the poor. Starting in middle school, students benefit enormously from working in hospitals, soup kitchens, animal shelters, and the like. This can be especially effective for young people who are growing up in socially and economically stressed neighborhoods.

Make a difference in the world. Help young people find active ways of working for peace, the preservation of the natural world, the relief of human suffering, or other concerns, through organizations like Kids Can Make a Difference (www.kidscanmakeadifference.org.), Free the Children (www.freethechildren.org), Roots and Shoots (www.janegoodall.org), or Peace Jam, in which students work directly with Nobel Peace Laureates (www.peacejam.org).

The Alliance for Childhood, www.allianceforchildhood.net, is a partnership of educators, medical professionals, and others working together for children's well-being.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH!

The Power of Today

by Karen Berg on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 4:54pm ·

Interestingly, at last week’s 43rd World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a panel of experts got together for a discussion called “The Mindful Leader,” where they explored the importance of mindfulness to successful leadership in business.

 It’s not particularly surprising that mindfulness is a hot topic now, not only among these leaders but also in business management schools around the world. The truth is that with all of the distractions, doubts, fears, and responsibilities we are constantly encountering, it can be very difficult to be “present” in our daily lives.

It says in the Bible that when the Israelites were in the desert, they were given food one  day at a time. The manna fell from the sky every day, so they didn’t have to—indeed; they could not—create a stockpile of food.

 One of the messages for us in this story is that “today” is the only day that counts. As a matter of fact, if we really think about it, there is no such thing right now as “tomorrow.”

 If we are not capable of giving of ourselves today, if we aren’t capable of feeling a connection to the divine spark that each of us has within, then we need to learn this simple lesson: We cannot sit around and wait for tomorrow—a tomorrow when we are not busy or when the “time is right” to share and to connect with those around us and with our own souls. As Johann Goethe said, “Nothing is worth more than this day.”

 None of this is supposed to be easy. Rabbi Ashlag wrote that there is no such a thing as Light without darkness.  But in everything in our life where effort and struggle is involved, there is the energy of Light.

 Being human, all of us will find doubt and difficulty in our lives. Each and every one of us has doubted ourselves at some point in our lives—who we are, what we are doing, what is the best way to move forward.  Nevertheless, while we might not have Moses in our generation to lead us out if this place of uncertainty, we do have spiritual tools and teachings that can bring us to a higher consciousness and a greater mindfulness. We just have to open ourselves to a spiritual space to use them. 

Releasing The Dis Ease Of Disease And Finding Joy

 By Bart Sharp

The word disease comes from the two words “dis” “ease” meaning there is a separation of ease in the body. The purpose of disease is the expression of the lack of joy in the body.

The disease is a destructive course to transform the body in a perverse way. Joy is suppressed by a variety of negative emotions that prevail over the gentle power inside of us. We have to choose to find joy and nourish it. The mind can manage and control the reality of lack of ease and joy in the body. However the body cannot live with those lies.

The body will find a way to express this distress, sometimes it is illness, pain in the body or through maladaptive behaviors (addictions, depression, neurosis and others). The best strategy to prevent disease or illness is proactive to have a body that is joy.

Joy is defined all is complete in whole within us. It is a perceptual quality that we create for us. Joy is a moment to moment that we discover and do our best to maintain. It is an ongoing process to live in joy, we create and we lose touch with it. We can find joy when we complete something that is valuable to us.

That achievement creates it for us. Joy is experienced when we connect to another in a heart-felt way as something is activated in us through the connection. All is complete through the relationship with that person.

Meditation and prayer help us find joy by communing with a higher source. Joy can come from a feeling when walking in a forest or sitting by a window on a rainy day feeling the mists and ions from the wetness calm your body. What these forms of joy all have in common is joy is found from an outside source. They are powerful experiences but do not connect to a truer form of joy.

To identify a deeper sense of joy we must understand what first creates the separation.

When we judge that something wrong has happened to us (or to another) we create a place within us that holds the distress. Through the judging it as good, bad, right or wrong we lock it in our body. It is a memory most likely associated with an emotion such as sadness, anger, shame, fear or others.

However it can be a judgment created through a feeling of rightness such as: my religion is the only path to god. These memories are energies inside of us that trigger us to these limiting emotional related judgments.

I met someone who recently who has breast cancer. We talked about the situation and then began asking question about what created the “dis” “ease” in her body. I asked her body what emotion was held with the cancer and the response was sadness. The woman looked at me and tears came from her eyes. She was very sad for the death of her husband of twenty-seven years with the last two years of his life a struggle. She had held so much of this inside of her during the last several years.

It was time for the woman to grieve, something she had difficulty doing. Now the grieving had more areas to expand upon, her husband’s struggle, his death, her loneliness and having cancer. It is most likely there will be more issues coming up as the grieving will open her body to express more experiences.

Through each area my friend feels complete within she will experience joy. She will move up to a new plateau of awareness when each sadness is released. More joy will come into her life. If she fully explores how she created the various areas of her sadness she unleashes a greater joy that she has not experience maybe since childhood.

This does not guarnatee a cure for the cancer, although it is a stronger possibility of success. However she will most likely have a different relationship with the disease as she will approach it with more grace and allowance. Also if my friend chooses to have chemotherapy her body will most likely accept the process easier.

Joy is suppressed by a variety of negative emotions that prevail over the gentle power inside of us. We have to choose to find joy and nourish it. I find discovering a longer lasting relationship with joy is the work of discovering the illusions of my suppressed emotions and living in the peaks and plateaus of joyful living.

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50 WAYS TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY!!!

1. Have your passion as your career. If you are passionate in your career, you are mixing play with work which make your job much more enjoyable.

2. Stay healthy.

3. Participate in community events.

4. Stop worrying.

5. Be thankful.

6. Count your blessings.

7. Exercise regularly

8. Volunteer in charity work.

9. Provide to those in need.

10. Forgive yourself.

11. Set goals.

12. Celebrate others success.

13. Believe in yourself.

14. Take criticism as a feedback which you can use to improve yourself.

15. Forget about things you are not able to change and focus your energy on things that you can change.

16. Keep stress level low.

17. Compliment others.

18. Dance.

19. Sing.

20. Be patient.

21. Read jokes.

22. Focus on others instead of yourself.

23. Have a hobby.

24. Rest well.

25. Meditate.

26. Make someone else happy.

27. Surround yourself with positive friends.

28. Remove friends who are negative from your life.

28. Learn something new.

29. Have a pet.

30. Smile.

31. Forgive others who hurt you.

32. Do not have high demand for others.

33. Have an appropriate demand for yourself.

34. Be near nature.

35. Watch comedies or cartoons.

36. Build up your self esteem.

37. Be yourself. Be a 1st rate of yourself instead of a 2nd rate of others. (I cannot remember who said this quote.)

38. Be honest to yourself and others.

39. Enjoy the present and forget about the unhappy past.

40. Be assertive. Say no if you really want to say no. It will be better if you are polite when doing this. 

41. Repeat daily affirmations to empower yourself.

42. Respect others and respect yourself.

43. Have a religious faith.

44. Take lots of photos and keep them in an album. Looking at photos taken during happy time and with old friends help to refresh happy memories in our mind.

45. Take holidays. Visit countries that you had wished to visit.

46. Do something new. Visit a new cafe or your local tourist attractions that you have not visited before.

47. Buy a small present for yourself. Chocolates, flowers or things that you like.

48. Save money. You will be happier if you do not need worry about the lack of money everyday.

49. Compliment others.

50. If all else fails, watch this video now. It cracked me up, maybe it will do the same to you.

...start from Within

STRESSED OUT???

Ongoing stress creates an energetic environment, affecting town and country, spreading from nation to nation, causing disharmony, disease, storms and wars. The heart's intelligence can help to dissipate these negative stressful energies, giving people a fresh start in learning how to get along and live stress free. As enough people learn about emotional fitness, it will cause a global shift into new consciousness that many are talking about, and then quality of life has a chance of becoming better for the whole.

The global stress momentum is obvious, but there's an equally potent force opposing it. Even as the waves of stress and incoherence increase, the energetics of coherence-the other side of living in this era of change-is working in our favor.

Amidst the burgeoning stress, a new momentum toward coherence is building. But we can attune to it and actualize it only through emotional management and balance-skills that much of society lacks. If we stay locked in anxiety, fear, resignation, or an unwillingness to change, the ever-accelerating pace of these times will continue to provide one challenge after another. Finding the heart momentum within is the best way to help ourselves and others navigate through this transitional era.

 

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