A Thought for Today-709: Jenni Young

Every situation in life is temporary.  So, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully.  And when life is not so good, remember that it will not last forever and better days are on the way – Jenni Young

Positive Affirmations-1: Introduction

What are the affirmations?

Affirmations are sentences aimed to affect the conscious and the subconscious mind. The words composing the affirmation, automatically and involuntarily, bring up related mental images into the mind, which could inspire, energize and motivate.

What Are Affirmations and How to Use Them - Success Consciousness

https://www.successconsciousness.com/affirmations.htm

What is self affirmations?

Self-affirmation theory is a psychological theory that focuses on how individuals adapt to information or experiences that are threatening to their self-concept. Claude Steele originally popularized self-affirmation theory in the late 1980s, and it remains a well-studied theory in social psychological research.

Self-affirmation - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-affirmation

What is a daily affirmation?

Daily affirmations are simple, positive statements declaring specific goals in their completed states. Although they sound rather basic at that level, these empowering mantras have profound effects on the conscious and unconscious mind.Sep 21, 2016

Daily Affirmations for Success - Examples & Tips | Jack Canfield

jackcanfield.com/blog/practice-daily-affirmations/

What is the meaning of positive affirmations?

Affirmations are positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. When you repeat them often, and believe in them, you can start to make positive changes.

Using Affirmations - Stress Management From MindTools.com

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/affirmations.htm

Grateful thanks to SuccessConsciousness.com, en.wikipedia.org, www.jackczanfield.com,  www. mindtools.com  and Google.

Inspiring Speeches-1: One of the Greatest Speeches Ever by Oprah Winfrey

One of the Greatest Speeches Ever by Oprah Winfrey 

(Law Of Attraction)

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Grateful thanks to Oprah Winfrey, HESMotivation and YouTube.

Interviews-2: Indira Gandhi Interview 1978

Indira Gandhi - Interview - TV Eye - 1978

2,135,750 views

ThamesTv

Published on Jul 20, 2015

An interview with  Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Mrs. Gandhi is asked some rather uncomfortable questions by Thames Televisions Jonathan Dimbleby regarding Indian Politics and the crack down on the press while she was Prime Minister. Mrs. Gandhi is also asked whether she would ever run for Prime Minister again.

First Broadcast in 16/11/1978

Grateful thanks to Thames Tv and YouTube.

Social Awareness-1: The Magic Pipe - A short film on saving water

The Magic Pipe - A short film on saving water

Manish Kharage

Published on May 8, 2016

Water is precious. Please avoid wasting water unnecessarily. This video - The Magic Pipe, is based on saving water. Once water is wasted, it can never come back, so please save water.  Thank you.

His twitter - www.twitter.com/manishkharage

His instagram - @manishkharage

Grateful thanks to Mr.Manish Kharage and YouTube.

Environment-18: YOUR HEALTH IS GOVERNED BY YOUR ENVIRONEMENT : Prof B M Hegde

YOUR  HEALTH  IS  GOVERNED  BY  YOUR  ENVIRONEMENT:  Prof B M Hegde



What part of your illnesses are genetic, and what part of them are environmental? B.M. Hegde breaks down misconceptions about health, and leaves us questioning what health actually means. Professor B.M. Hegde is a medical scientist, educationist and author who has contributed immensely in the field of healthcare medical science, and is known for his holistic approach. He has been bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan award in 2010. He works towards putting together a system of medical care delivery which is authentic, inexpensive, patient friendly and easily accessible. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Grateful thanks to Prof B M Hegde, TEDx Talks and YouTube.

Travel-1:Mount Kailash and the Walk around the Sacred Mountain

Mount Kailash and the Walk around the Sacred Mountain

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In September 2015 I made my third walk around Mt Kailash in Tibet. On this trip I took a GoPro mounted on a gimbal. In 25 minutes I offer highlights of the trip and a few reflections of how things have changed in the last 10 years in Tibet.

I have always traveled to Tibet and Mount Kailash with http://snowjewel.com/.  On that site you can read many details about the trip--gear to take, the best time of year to go (anytime during the season), and more.

If  you are curious, you can read about my earlier trips and see stills at http://thomasriddle.net/tibet/

I would be happy to return to Mt Kailash to act as a guide/advisor/comforter etc. If anyone there can organize ten people to go with Snow Jewel, I can come for free.

Anecdotes-2: From the Life of Jawaharlal Nehru

He was taking a stroll along the path that ran around the trees and the shrubs of the open grounds in Teen Murti, the official residence of the Prime Minister. Then he heard the cry of a baby. Where did it come from? Nehru stopped, looked all around. His eyes focused on a baby of two months, howling at its top. Nehru went closer. Where was the mother? She was nowhere around. Nehru guessed that the baby's mother must be working on the grounds. She must be a member of the team of gardeners who worked at Teen Murti. She must have put the baby to sleep and gone to the work spot. More he went on with the guessing game, louder and louder became the cry of the baby. Nehru decided to play mother to the child. He walked close to where the child lay, bent, picked the baby in his arms and rocked it gently. The child's wails ebbed and petered off. A toothless smile lit up its lips. That was a smile that cheered Pandit Nehru. He played with the baby, tickled it, had fun time till the baby's mother, covered with dust and sweat ran in. She could not believe her eyes. Her beloved child was in Pandit Nehru's arms. And he was having fun time in its company. For the mother, it was her proudest moment ever. Her baby had been rocked and soothed by none else but the Prime Minister of India.

Grateful thanks to creative.sulekha.com.

Self-Improvement-175: BEFORE YOU SPEAK

BEFORE  YOU  SPEAK

Is it True?

Is it Helpful?

Is it Inspiring?

Is it Necessary?

Is it Kind?

Letters-98: Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir

Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir

My dear little girl

For a long time I’ve been wanting to write to you in the evening after one of those outings with friends that I will soon be describing in “A Defeat,” the kind when the world is ours. I wanted to bring you my conqueror’s joy and lay it at your feet, as they did in the Age of the Sun King. And then, tired out by all the shouting, I always simply went to bed. Today I’m doing it to feel the pleasure you don’t yet know, of turning abruptly from friendship to love, from strength to tenderness. Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself. This happens much more often than I admit to you, but seldom when I’m writing to you. Try to understand me: I love you while paying attention to external things. At Toulouse I simply loved you. Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.

My dear little girl, as I’ve told you, what you’re lacking is friendship. But now is the time for more practical advice. Couldn’t you find a woman friend? How can Toulouse fail to contain one intelligent young woman worthy of you*? But you wouldn’t have to love her. Alas, you’re always ready to give your love, it’s the easiest thing to get from you. I’m not talking about your love for me, which is well beyond that, but you are lavish with little secondary loves, like that night in Thiviers when you loved that peasant walking downhill in the dark, whistling away, who turned out to be me. Get to know the feeling, free of tenderness, that comes from being two. It’s hard, because all friendship, even between two red-blooded men, has its moments of love. I have only to console my grieving friend to love him; it’s a feeling easily weakened and distorted. But you’re capable of it, and you must experience it. And so, despite your fleeting misanthropy, have you imagined what a lovely adventure it would be to search Toulouse for a woman who would be worthy of you and whom you wouldn’t be in love with? Don’t bother with the physical side or the social situation. And search honestly. And if you find nothing, turn Henri Pons, whom you scarcely love anymore, into a friend.

[…]

I love you with all my heart and soul.

India Watch-138: Indian Inventors' contribution of patents to IBM

As of January 2017, Indian inventors contributed 658 patents to IBM, to help global software giant top the list for US patent recipients in 2016. IBM filed a total of 8,088 US patents, followed by Samsung Electronics in the 2nd position, with 5,518 patents.

Grateful thanks to www.ibef.org.

Q&A-13: What is the importance of the carbon atom?

What is the importance of the carbon atom?

The Significance of Carbon. A compound found mainly in living things is known as an organic compound. Organic compounds make up the cells and other structures of organisms and carry out life processes. Carbon is the main element in organic compounds, so carbon is essential to life on Earth.

Websites to Watch-17: FLAVORWIRE

ABOUT  FLAVORWIRE

Flavorwire is a publication of Flavorpill Media, a network of culturally connected people, covering events, art, books, music, film, TV, and pop culture the world over. Highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between: if it’s compelling we’re talking about it. Flavorwire features global cultural news and commentary, original reporting, and the occasional cat photo (this is the internet, after all).

Facts and Figures-101: INDIAN RAILWAYS

FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT INDIAN RAILWAYS

• The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon
• The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
• IR has about 63,028 route kms. of track
• IR employs about 1.55 million people
• It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday
• It runs about 14,300 trains daily
• IR has about 7,000 railway stations
• The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
• Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge
• 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence
• Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
• Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
• The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
• People Employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million
• Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
• Classes of travel on Indian Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd ordinary
• Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station

Grateful thanks to Facts about India.com

Eyecatchers-205: Swiss Time Bank

Swiss Time Bank A student studying abroad in Switzerland observed: While studying in Switzerland, I rented a house near the school. The landlord Kristina is a 67-year-old single old lady who worked as a teacher in a secondary school before she retired. Switzerland's pension is very rich, enough not to make her worry about eating and drinking in her later years. However, it is puzzling that she actually found a "work" - to take care of an 87-year-old single old man. I asked if she was working for money. Her answer surprised me: “I did not work for money, but I put my time in the ‘time bank’, and when I couldn’t move at old age, I could withdraw it.” The first time I heard about the concept of "time bank", I was very curious and asked the landlord thoroughly. The original “Time Bank” was an old-age pension program developed by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Social Security. People saved the time of taking care of the elderly when they were young, and waited until they were old, ill or needed care. Applicants must be healthy, good at communicating and full of love. Every day they have plenty of time to look after the elderly who need help. Their service hours will be deposited into the personal accounts of the social security system. She went to work twice a week, spending two hours each time, to help the elderly shopping, finishing the room, taking the elderly out to sunbathe, chatting with the elderly. According to the agreement, after one year of her service expiry, “Time Bank” will count out her working hours and issue her a “time bank card”. When she needs someone to take care of her, she can use her “time bank card” to “time bank” to withdraw “time and time interest”. After the information verification is passed, “Time Bank” will assign volunteers to take care of her to the hospital or her home. . One day, I was in school and the landlady called and said she fell off the stool when she wiped the window. I quickly took leave and sent her to the hospital for treatment. The landlady broke her ankle and needed to stay in bed for a while. While I was preparing to apply for a holiday home to take care of her, the landlady told me that I did not have to worry about her. She had already submitted a withdrawal request to the “Time Bank”. Sure enough, less than two hours, "Time Bank" sent a nursing worker to come to care for the landlord. In the following month, the care worker took care of the landlord every day, chatted with her and made delicious meals for her. Under the meticulous care of the carer, the landlady soon recovered to health. After recovering, the landlady went back to "work".  She said that she intends to save time in the "time bank" when she is still healthy, and wait until she can't move. Today, in Switzerland, the use of "time banks" to support old age has become a common practice. This not only saves the country pension expenses, but also solves some other social problems. Many Swiss citizens are very supportive of this kind of old-age pensions. The survey conducted by the Swiss pension organization shows that more than half of Swiss young people also want to participate in this type of old-age care service. The Swiss government also specializes in legislation to support the "Time Bank" pension. At present, the number of "empty-nest old people" in China is continuously increasing and it has gradually become a social problem. Switzerland's use of "time bank" pension may be a good reference for us. social problem. Switzerland's use of "time bank" pension may be a good reference for us.

In Lighter Vein-15: Money, money

WHITE  money difficult to earn.
BLACK  money difficult to hide.
PINK  money difficult to exchange.

Grateful thanks to Quotes Creator.

Videos to Watch-15: HOW YOU CAN TRAIN YOUR MIND TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE : SADHGURU JAGGI VASUSDEV

HOW YOU CAN TRAIN YOUR MIND TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE: SADHGURU JAGGI VASUSDEV
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Grateful thanks to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and YouTube.

A Thought for Today-708: One small positive thought...

One small positive thought in the morning can change the entire outcome of your day 

Anecdotes-1: Interesting Anecdote from Mahatma Gandhi’s Life

Interesting Anecdote from Mahatma Gandhi’s Life from

'An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth'

 “Two other incidents belonging to the same period have always clung to my memory. As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. The daily lessons had to be done, because I disliked being taken to task by my teacher as much as I disliked deceiving him. Therefore I would do the lessons, but often without my mind in them. Thus when even the lessons could not be done properly, there was of course no question of any extra reading. But somehow my eyes fell on a book purchased by my father. It was Shravana Pitribhakti Nataka (a play about Shravana's devotion to his parents). I read it with intense interest. There came to our place about the same time itinerant showmen. One of the pictures I was shown was of Shravana carrying, by means of slings fitted for his shoulders, his blind parents on a pilgrimage. The book and the picture left an indelible impression on my mind. 'Here is an example for you to copy,' I said to myself. The agonized lament of the parents over Shravana's death is still fresh in my memory. The melting tune moved me deeply, and I played it on a concertina which my father had purchased for me.

There was a similar incident connected with another play. Just about this time, I had secured my father's permission to see a play performed by a certain dramatic company. This play Harishchandra- captured my heart. I could never be tired of seeing it. But how often should I be permitted to go? It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number. 'Why should not all be truthful like Harishchandra?' was the question I asked myself day and night. To follow truth and to go through all the ordeals Harishchandra went through was the one ideal it inspired in me. I literally believed in the story of Harishchandra. The thought of it all often made me weep. My commonsense tells me today that Harishchandra could not have been a historical character. Still both Harishchandra and Shravana are living realities for me, and I am sure I should be moved as before if I were to read those plays again today.”

—Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Self-Improvement-174: What is maturity

Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals or sself-worth - Lessons learned in life

Grateful thanks to "Lessoms learned in Life"