This time of year is a special time for many folks for family and friends. For some, who are isolated, it can bring about memories and sadness. In other parts of the world it is meaningless. Others find it too commercialized and detracts from their interpretation of what it really means to them.

A special prayer goes out to those who are homeless, isolated, in poor health and those lacking in abundance of any kind.

Whichever way you chose to celebrate, or not, as the case may be, I wish to send you a positive message, a warm greeting, love even if and especially if you are not surrounded by family or friends. A wish for peace, love, joy and happiness, not just for this time of year. Let the spirit carry us though out the year and years.

I received a message in one of the groups I am in. They are doing a meditation, which I won’t post here, for World Peace, Abundance and Freedom.

All good things to aspire for and hope for in the world. I am not into some of the wording and such so I won’t post that. What I will post is a bit of what I would suggest you do if you so choose.

The suggested starting time is Dec. 24th at 9 AM or if you cannot do this start at 9 PM Dec. 23rd in whichever time zone you are in. In simple terms, just think of Peace, Abundance and Freedom for everyone, put your thoughts and attention on that. Thoughts are energy and we are energy as is everything else. It is said to raise our vibrational energy and affect consciousness. It is not voodoo or magic. It just is.

Do this until 9 PM Dec. 25th at anytime you choose to be part of the “wave” effect. Now you can do this all year round if you wish.

Important: Include your own spirituality into it, God, Buddha, Jesus, Allah, Universal Energy, whatever is meaningful to you. I believe that it must feel right to you and not be someone else’s beliefs. That applies to anything in life. Respect, honor the differences in everyone and follow your own truth.

Mediation and prayer has been demonstrated to affect things positively. Mass meditations have shown to reduce crime in certain areas so anything we can do in this regard is positive, in my opinion.

In a previous post I mentioned another planned meditation that you may wish to consider.

I will post a few messages for this time of year in several languages. Again, this is just in the spirit of this time of year. Also these are greetings written in these languages and not to mean all celebrate this event. I am not an expert in languages so please forgive any mistakes.

Canadian – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! Eh! (Most of us don’t really add the eh part)
Arabic – I’D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida
Bengali – Shuvo Baro Din – Shuvo Nabo Barsho
Cantonese – Seng Dan Fai Lok, Sang Nian Fai Lok
Cheyenne – Hoesenestotse & Aa’e Emona’e
Dutch – Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
French – Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!
German – Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!
Greek – Kala Christougenna Ki’eftihismenos O Kenourios Chronos
Hebrew – Mo’adim Lesimkha. Shanah Tova
Hindi – Shubh Naya Baras
Indonesian – Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru
Japanese - Kurisumasu Omedeto Shinnen omedeto
Portuguese – Boas Festas e um feliz Ano Novo
Italian – Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo
Mandarin – Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Russian – Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom
Tagalog – Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon
Ukrainian – Veseloho Vam Rizdva i Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku!
Zulu – Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo

So my best wishes to everyone in all ways and always.

In love, peace and gratitude.

Namaste

Genes “Easy Ways”
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One of my favorite authors is Wayne Dyer when I was introduced to his book, “Real Magic“. I was fortunate to have been in the audience to hear one of his presentations. Amazing how he can talk for hours without referring to a note. His presence is amazing.

If you are exploring a sense of purpose you may wish to view the following video for some enlightenment and divine inspiration:

. For the word for today which I found in the free rice part of the helping others section here, the word I chose today is blench.Here are the choices:

1.subside

2.behave

3.flinch

4.exaggerate

Now as for my behavior surrounding this, I am not exaggerating, nor am I flinching away from it, or letting it subside into the abyss. So give it a guess or if you know, good for you! Perhaps when you do the helping others for today you will discover it in there also.

Wishing you much good fortune, today and everyday, in all ways and always.

Genes “Easy Ways” of the day.

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How about the word of the day. It is arroyo.

I must confess I guessed this one. It did seem “Spanish” to me. Well it seems I guess quite a few of them, of deduce or something. Left brain right brain combo I suppose that is what it is.

So what is arroyo?

 

gully

sunroom

mom

autograph

So there you are, have a go at it.

I used to do the word games in Readers Digest many years ago. I had some word tests done while in early high school and drive the counselor mad. I ended up about 4 or 5 years ahead of what level I should have been at.

He kind of discounted it saying you had to get two wrong consecutively before you were done. I kept getting the second one right it he said and we kept going on forever until finally I hit that magic number. But only way I knew those words I am sure was due to RD and their word games.

Not sure what is up with Google. I tried to place some videos onto the blog using the adsense system. All it displays is a link to Youtube rather than the videos. It looks like they do not want the videos to show on the site for some reason. ?? Plus the ads are not reflective of the content and posts I have made.

I will leave you with a video I can post here as it is direct.

Cheers,

Genes “Easy Ways”

Well easy ways has found out about this challenge being tossed around like brain waves unleashed. So maybe you want to get those brain cells clicking into a higher zone.

If so just click this link below if you are interested:

Develop the habit of meditation in 2008!

This is a global challenge to help 100,000 to become habitual in the meditation world! Some have challenges with meditation so perhaps this can help you along the path of least resistance. Compliments of Lisa Hepner.

So if you are new to meditation or want to freshen up you skills in that arena, give it a whirl. Some do have challenges getting the mind to quieten down. That is the left brain working “on” you. Relax and let the right brain in and access another world of love, beauty and peace.

Hey, as far as habits go, this one is a good thing!

In love and peace,

Genes “Easy Ways”

 

Some thoughts to follow these moments of inspiration.

“The Peace Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow charity;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light; and
Where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life.”
I am presenting this “peace” prayer after being reminded of it when listening to a cd by Wayne Dyer. This uplifting and comforting prayer is believed to have been written around 1900 and is attributed to St. Francis of Assisi mainly as it expresses his beliefs and spirit.

Another inspirational work, shown below, is an adaptation of the work of Mother Teresa.
“The Final Analysis

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; …Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; …Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; …Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; …Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; …Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; …Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; …Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; …Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.”

I wanted the above to stand on it’s own so I will post some thoughts afterwards, below.

I am not an expert on this, I came across some things that brought me to a place of wanting to present some things. I prefer to keep it light for the most part and not to get too hung up on words, not to analyze them or dissect them, just let the overall feeling emerge and see how that feels.

I generally look beyond the religious aspect of things to a place of spirituality that transcends main stream religion. While I say transcends, this still includes that aspect of spirituality that is foundational in religion and the concepts that seem to be incorporated in all the world’s major religions. When examined they do have, at their core, the same or similar messages.

The differences and interpretations of mankind bring about the challenges that are faced from a historical viewpoint and today. This starts when words come into play, as the Tao would have it. What does it matter the name assigned to this Universal Energy, whether it be God, Buddha, Creator, Allah, etc?

As Harry Palmer of Avatar would say, we are all the same, it is only our beliefs that separate us. I interpret that as being “we are all one”.

Just a few light thoughts for today. I was looking at some others. That will come later.

Namaste,

Genes “Easy Ways”

Inspiration can come in many forms and as beauty is, it is in the eye or heart of the beholder. I wanted to present some videos on a separate page yet there is a challenge with imbedding them. I can do it but adding to or making changes creates the challenges as the page then does weird things and the videos do not show properly. So for now I will do them in post fashion.

I came across this video on gratitude, appreciation and can be a form of meditation for some.

It is entitled:

A Good Day- Brother David Steindl-Rast

I do hope you enjoy this moment of inspiration.