Recently I was inspired by the speech of Mark Zuckerberg about the social growth of sharing information.

I see this kind of social sharing, or being ‘more social’ and doubling every year, as the first signs of the growing recognition of ‘personal uniqueness’ ‘self value’. But not in a selfish way, as to be able to express yourself you need to be equally excepting the value of others. Now both the ability to express yourself and the willingness to except others, world wide, is nothing short of ‘spiritual awakening’.

Are you being social? or are you resisting it in the name of privacy, who cares what you did this morning…I know that I was?

Inner growth and social growth in Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Picture and Video Sharing

Mark was giving an example: if we could fold over a plain paper fifty times, how high would it reach? Well, it can take us to the moon and back one hundred and fifty times!

Our physical growth, rejuvenation of cells works on this doubling formula, we call it division of cells.

Here we can recognized that the more natural something may be the more it would likely to resemble a ‘compound growth’ than a ‘linear growth’.

But all is initiated by energy. Einstein proved that Energy can not be created nor destroyed and it has a direct relation to physical mass, so this quantum change must be related to compounding.

Then the question of momentum came to mind…it must have the power of the same compound growth…inner growth.

Just like the cells are doubling in the power of the second chakra every chakra must contribute to this exponential growth. What we control is when it may happen in us.

But Compounding seems to be extremely difficult for the human mind to grasp.

There must be very little logic in compound exponential growth…maybe even some magic.

So what are you doing to support your social sharing abilities from within?

I meditate.

[Daily Karma]

look at a flower or at a tree
they are just as perfect in the winter
and the spring as they are in the summer

just like you are always perfect

each step of your journey
completes a new beauty
a new purpose

just like every one around you

they too are perfect
they too have their winter
their spring and their summer
they too have their steps and their journey

forget that and be in fear
embrace that and be free
in your journey

Millions of Children around the world are going back to school. Parents, Grandparents and Children are very exited but often feel added stress during these times.

How can you deal with this stress?

Can Meditation really help?

Do Children even need meditation to be Happy?

Many studies prove meditation to be a valuable tool…

and did you know…

You have been meditating almost half of your life and did not even know it!

Did you know that sleep is a form of meditation?
Your body has an instinctive need to go into an eight hour “self regulation” mode, during which we best recover from the day, rejuvenate our body, mind and even grow. During sleep you often have involuntary movements, visualization even sounding, all as part of a natural instinctive survival mechanism.

As you sleep (forced daily meditation) your body uses available energy, from your day to rejuvenate.

(This Energy coming from proper diet, water, fresh air and exercise. Generally, the better your lifestyle the better your sleep.)

But, regardless of your lifestyle, if you are stressed, worried, your energy is low, than even your sleep is not as productive (you may wake up tired and often you can’t sleep at all).

Modern science does not know much about sleep, but we do know that children sleep much deeper and better quality than adults. (As I often run the parallel between available energy and aging !)

You also know that when you are emotionally stressed, worry, which are indicators of low energy, you often can’t sleep at all.

You can easily observe, that when we are physically ill our body forces us into sleep until we recover. Meditation just as sleep is a form of whole body rejuvenation.

When used properly, meditation does not simply substitute sleep, but enhances the awakened state potential.

The benefits of Meditation have been known for thousands of years, recently modern science has also begun recognizing the benefits of meditation for relief of stress and anxiety, raised physical and mental potential.

As science begins recognizing the power of the mind, and that awakening the bodies own ability, from within, can never be replaced by any external intervention, meditation is now rapidly becoming a big part in many hospitals, work places and now schools as a tool for emotional stability, physical recovery and personal growth.

As we know, Children are very sensitive, this sensitivity makes children vulnerable to all they hear and see at home, at school and in the media. The evidence of high stress and anxiety levels, obesity, allergies, other sensitivity to food and early aging are evident across all schools and communities.

Stress being one of the first responses leads to hyper activity, ADD, diminished creativity, and all academic scores. Stress often causes child depression, which may be expressed in being a bully or even a victim.

When stressed the body’s immune system weakens. Naturally, when losing sleep and emotionally down both adults and children become many times more vulnerable to all viruses and infections.

Children are very bright, and Introducing meditation to the children early, may prove extremely beneficial.
They will naturally be less vulnerable to their external environment and at times when the child may feel the stress and overwhelm they can use what they have learned as a tool for instant relief.
By introducing Meditative Story Telling, even once a week we will give them these tools and hope to be able to also see measurable results, in the over all social behavior and direct benefit in academic scores.

[Daily Karma]

turn on your kindness switch
and brighten someone’s day
send a ripple of light
and be the source of joy today

notice how different life feels
with judgment free kindness which spreads
empower your freedom to be
the light ON to another man’s way

Erik Valdman
July 23 2010

Tagore hosts Gandhi and wife Kasturba at Santiniketan in 1940

“Creation is an endless activity of God’s freedom; it is an end in itself.”

Rabindranath Tagore, (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) sobriquet Gurudev,
was an Indian Bengali polymath. He was a popular poet, novelist, musician, and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, and as the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Tagore was perhaps the most widely regarded Indian literary figure of all time. He was a mesmerizing representative of the Indian culture whose influence and popularity internationally perhaps could only be compared to that of Gandhi, whom Tagore named ‘Mahatma’ out of his deep admiration for him. (quote taken from Wikipedia)

We are a society of end results, goals, fast and instant gratification…could it be that the Freedom of the Journey, is the greatest of joys and the ultimate purpose?
Could we rewrite Rabindranath’s words and say:

“ The Creation in our ‘Journey of Life’ is the endless act, an expression of Human Freedom; it is the source of greatest wealth, the evidence of greatest health and happiness; it is an end in itself.”?

As you may know I spend many hours learning and researching with “Energy”.
I spoke of the thousand year shift from the “agricultural age” to the “industrial age”

First was the movement of people from their lands to big cities, from their father’s jobs to new training and schooling second was that physical strength was no longer as important as it was slowly replaced by the machines. New industries have arrived, and dominated, such as the car industry.

Then before we knew it, the “information age” was upon us.
People could no longer stay at the same job, things were going fast, business has opened its borders
companies became international, Silicon valley became the dominant force. IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google…

It no longer took thousands of years not even hundreds, we have almost left the industrial age and moved to the information age as the manufacturing jobs have moved and soon may disappear.

Well, before you know it a new age will be upon us…the shift from “information age” to “social age”
you will no longer be paid to be physically strong, nor to have a good memory, not even to know complicated equations that will be done in a push of a button (and thanks to “Apple” new voice software development, a verbal command and maybe even a thought will be enough)

During this “social age” you will only survive if you have “emotional intelligence”

So what is this “social age” and how will it effect your life?

Since the recent financial crisis I have recognized that many large cooperation will be cutting their workforce
and these jobs will not be coming back.

Some of these jobs first will go to developing countries such as China and India
But than they will be “automated” and disappear all together.

Are YOU prepared for the “social age”?
What Are the QUALITIES you need for the upcoming “social age” (may be here sooner than you think!)?
What is that “emotional intelligence” anyway?

would love to hear your opinion
(you are welcome to post them here on this blog post below)