Develop Your Compassion

Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person.

Compassion is the recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own---often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Compassion is something you can develop with practice. It involves two things: intention and action. Intention simply means you remember to open your heart to others; you expand what and who matters, from yourself to other people. Action is simply the “what you do about it.”

Compassion develops your sense of gratitude by taking your attention off all the little things that most of us have learned to take too seriously.

Power of Your Own Thoughts

It is important to know that there is a relationship between your thinking and the way you feel. It’s important to realize that you are constantly thinking. Don’t be fooled into believing that you are already aware of this fact! Think, for a moment, about your breathing. Until this moment, when you are reading this sentence, you had certainly lost sight of the fact that you were doing it. The truth is, unless you are out of breath, you simply forget that it’s occurring.

Thinking works in the same way. Because you’re always doing it, it’s easy to forget that it’s happening, and it becomes invisible to you. Unlike breathing, however, forgetting that you are thinking can cause some serious problems in your life, such as unhappiness, anger, inner conflicts, and stress. The reason this is true is that your thinking will always come back to you as a feeling.

Try getting angry without first having angry thoughts! Okay, now try feeling stressed out without first having stressful thoughts – or jealous without thoughts of jealousy. You can’t do it – it’s impossible. The truth is, in order to experience a feeling; you must first have a thought that produces that feeling.

Unhappiness doesn’t and can’t exist on its own. Unhappiness is the feeling that accompanies negative thinking about your life. In the absence of that thinking, the unhappiness, or stress, or jealousy, can’t exist. There is nothing to hold your negative feelings in place other than your own thinking. The next time you’re feeling upset, notice your thinking – it will be negative.

Remind yourself that it’s your thinking that is negative, not your life. This simple awareness will be the first step in putting you back on the path toward happiness. It takes practice, but you can get to the point where you treat your negative thoughts in much the same way you would treat flies at a picnic: You shoo them away and get on with your day.

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2012 preponed???

During thepopular Palestinian children's television program Tomorrow's Pioneers on Hamas' Al Aqsa TV program, a young boy from the audience was called on to sing a song he had prepared. It went as follows:

"Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle.
When I am a big boy, I will join the Liberation Army.
The army of [Izz Al-Din] Al-Qassam (Hamas),
which has taught us how to defend our homeland.
Our homeland is precious, precious.
We [are] victorious, victorious over America and Israel.
[Improvises:] Son of a bitch - what brought you to this land?"

Translation of the broadcast was provided by Palestinian Media Watch, which noted that Palestinian children are being successfully taught that "violence is the ideal means to solve conflict."


If this is the case across the world, 2012 may be preponed.... to when?,
i dont want a nightmare :(

Courtesy: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=79 Wednesday, February 10, 2010

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANIZATIONS ?....views by WIPRO CEO

By Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their manager .... the manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

" People leave managers not companies ," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

YSR ki nivali

Small Child n Sweets

Once a boy went to a shop with his mother. The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed him a bottle with sweets

and said 'Dear Child..u can take the sweets...

But the child didn't take. The shop keeper was surprised.. such a small child he is and why is he not taking the sweets from the bottle. Again he said take the sweets....

Now the mother also heard that and said.. take the sweets dear.. Yet he didn't take... The shopkeeper seeing the child not taking the sweets... he himself took the sweets and gave to the child. The child was happy to get two hands full of sweets.


While returning home the Mother asked the child... Why didn't you take the sweets, when the shop keeper told you to take?..

Can you guess the response: Child replies... Mom! my hands are very small and if i take the sweets i can only take few.. but now you see when uncle gave with his big hands.... how many more sweets i got!


Moral: When we take we may get little but when God gives... HE gives us more beyond our expectations... more than what we can hold..!!

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted

Loyalty

Date: Some where between 356 BC - 323 BC
Location: Greece

100 good horses are taken to be trained for battles. They are provided with intensive war-fare training for 3 months. Training includes running in a max speed, stopping at once on that speed, jumping over fences of different heights, sliding, kicking using back legs or front legs, running in stones, water n sand etc...

At the end of 3 months only a few survive the training, rest die or get removed. Max of 20-25 horses survive.

After the 3 months, these shortlisted horses are exposed to a training of 1 more month. This part includes, heavy healthy diet food and usual stunts. In addition to this, a special program is put on subject. This includes just 4 signals. Signal is actually the sound of vigil. A single vigil blown, the horse has to get up n stand in attention position, ready to go. Two vigils blown, the horse has to walk. Three blown, running starts. Four blown continuously, the horse has to get back to the starting position or to the position where the rider is standing.

So after this one month training, 3 more days of final training exists. This particular part is such that, the horses are tied in the stable. Food n water are placed in front of the horses, 500 metres distant. No food is given in these 3 days, food is just placed and horses are tempted.

Final day of testing, day four.

The commander king comes to the test location(stables where those horses are placed).
A single vigil is blown and the gates are opened. In a minute or two, three vigils together are blown. These horses which are hungry for food n starving literally, race towards the food, when the horses are almost reaching the food placed there, four vigils are blown. Of these shortlisted 20-25 horses, only 1-3 horses follow the code and get back to the master.

These horses are selected to be used in the battles, rest are discarded.

This process is done over thousands of horses and few hundreds are used in battles.

These are the real loyal horses which have undergone the rigorous training procedures. This commander king is none other than Alexander, the Great.