Wellness Tip for Peace: In the law of faith, love resides in our heart. It is perfected with hope so that good will be done by the soul and be healed without fear

Keep the faith, drop the fear. Easier said than done, and that's why, love needs to come in. We cannot start to have faith if we don't want to love, and we cannot continue having faith if we do not want to pursue loving. To love is not to care on who the person is, not anymore. To decide to love the person is to accept whoever he/she is, doesn't care anymore on what people say or what the society dictates. It is just love, no judgements, no demands, no expectations, no standards, no qualification, no analysis, no experimentation, nothing but just love. If a person reached this conviction, then faith has a place in the person's heart. Once loving is taking place, faith is being harness, not with any material or physical thing, but something that only the person who love has it -- and that is hope.

While loving unconditionally, hope is alive in the person's will to do good. Eventually the person who love will reach the level that his/her fear has melted and what remains are multiple lights of hope flashing and shining in the person/s faith to get what he/she wants at the soonest possible time!

Everything is possible because there is faith!

So, do you want to get what you want? Have faith. To start with, learn how to love and everything will follow naturally...

Wellness Tip for Peace: Be Yourself. Let your personality surface. Be Prepared, know their issues and anticipate challenges

In peace leadership, you must have first and foremost the full understanding and control of yourself. If you lose yourself, you lose your peace. If you do not own yourself, how can you share yourself to others? How can you be selfless if you do not have your own self? Reflect, who are you? What do you need? What do you want? What do you think are your strengths? What do you think are your weaknesses? What is your obssession? What makes you tick? What will push you to the edge? What is your passion? What makes you complete? What will make you lose your sanity? These are some questions and you can further elaborate by asking yourself of the worst things that you can think of that will check your mind on how you cope up and can cope up with the pressures of peace-making.

Knowing yourself is a never ending process. It goes on and on until your alive. In the process of knowing ourselves, we got into the web of multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-social, and multi-behavioral patterns. It can get crazy, but don't get frustrated because the whole experience is in simple terms, education. Remember, our negative reaction to something new is not personal but cultural. We don't know that point and we just learn it practically from another fellow where we just had and is currently having conflicting relationships. So, instead of getting too emotional on issues being raised, be professional, study, research and analyze every detail until you get the answer to your questions. Enjoy the learning process as you develop your self and find ways to make "any" relationship work! Nothing to lose but everything works to your advantage because you are given free education of life and you have all the options to choose what kind of life you can make. No one can dictate you, only you knows how you can solve your conflict, because nobody knows yourself better but you.

Why will you walk away? Why will you always run away from people or for that someone that you have passionate connections? Be brave. Know their issues. Study, learn and analyze. It is a privelege that destiny gave you another chance together in this lifetime to settle whatever it is that you need to settle. So take the lead, initiate the talk. Listen, and you will not just win a friend for life but you will develop your self in the whole process of facing your weakness. Take note, everybody is a friend, it just so happen that they were assigned in this lifetime either to be our parent, brother, sister, spouse, children, relatives, etc. But those are just name tags with corresponding society's assignments. In the end, what truly made you stay together is because you are FRIENDS..... the love you shared, the respect you have for each other, the moments you treasure are not society's requirements but the passion you both have in your heart.

And if this is the case, who says nothing last forever...

Wellness Tip for Peace: It's natural for humans to be insecured if there is no physical contact. But beyond physical, there is spiritual communication, and we call it Prayer

There's a typical notion that relationship happen between concerned parties only. We forget that in between any relationship, there is always a third party that sees all our transactions in our relationship. Someone that we cannot see in plain sight, and He is no other than but God. If we always consider that in any words we think, thought of, say and act upon to our fellow, God is watching and hears us then we can always be mindful of everything. Actually, no one is really alone, and in any relationship, it's always a family, consisting of you, the person that you are in a relationship with and God. So, if in case there's a communication gap, God is there to bridge the gap as He listen to your unceasing prayer. Wait, trust, and pray because you will be guided how to find the way to make the relationship work. Tell your thoughts to God, say what you really mean sincerely with all honesty. Just make a dialogue. Let go of the fear as you establish the connection until you gain the confidence to trust with all your heart whatever is God's will. In the process of doing so, your worries will vanish like shadows in the coming of light and you will gain peace.

My passion to live the beauty of life goes where my heart is for "heart cannot be seperated from fire or beauty from the eternal"

I am a very passionate person. I feel the situation so close. There are no boundaries to me. Distance does not keep me from loving, neither conflict of personalities. I give in to the motion of emotion. To love is to forget to think but just to let love take its course.... freely, without reservation, without standards, without thinking what lies ahead at the end of the line.

This I've learned as I coursed through my journey of being attuned to myself and to the people I really care about. But mind you, this whole thing of loving freely is alien to me way back then. Then, when I was always angry because people doesn't put up to my standards. Then, way back, I think too much. So I forgot to love. Commitment to me then entails the same commitment to the people I hold my commitment. I stay because they stay. I love because they love. And the whole thing makes me happy? No, it didn't!

What I've learned in the course of my life journey is this. You know you really love when you don't care! Not that you don't care anymore to the people you love but you don't care anymore who they are, what they are, what they do, who are they with, what does it take, etc. I've realized that "real" love is liberating. Love is when you are free! To be free is to love! It is the freedom from the bondage of what other people think, on what others will say, on what the future holds. What matters is just the importance and significance of the feeling of loving at a certain moment and time for no one knows what will really happen next. I wish to live the beauty of life and I can only live it fully when I'm free! And I can only be free when I let myself love freely!

Sounds really ideal. And I guess, few will agree with me, especially when one tries to protect his/her status quo. Loving is risk, and risk is everything. Loving is the alternative choice to fighting. Loving instead of hating. Love instead of War. The choice is ours, but both has its effects. War is death and Love is life. If we end, we let death take its victory. If we pursue, we let life have its way...

If we love, we let go of the control and we let love take its control... until we are ready to go where nature will lead us. We feel every moment of it, near or far, wherever we are, we live, we breath, we feel, and we let our heart live freely

Peace Vigil 2012: Whatever is True and Real will be Unified

Keep the Faith, drop the fear. Seek the truth. Be yourself. Believe, peace is possible.

Searching the truth requires patience and discipline to maintain an open mind to analyze facts as they present it and/or as you discover it. Being sensitive not to give in to impulsive judgement.

People have the the habit of assessing people, situation, etc based on how they feel. The first impression to a person can be influential to one's decision and judgement to a person. This is injustice practice if we allow this kind of practice. No one knows the truth until further investigation and research. Every person should be regarded as innocent; and that goes the same with any situation. If we treat everyone innocent until proven guilty, we are practing simple justice.

To search for the truth is to know what kind of truth are we looking for. Truth can be relative, meaning it depends on the kind of truth that we are searching. There are a lot of facts leading to the truth. With all numerous fact, what is it that we really want to know, as of the moment. If we simplify what we kind of truth we want to know, we can focus our mind to solve the questions that bothers us.

As we search the truth that we are looking for, we ask the question, What really happened that lead to this scenario, conclusion, situation, problem / solution, etc. To know what happened in plain ans simple data without reservation or emotional attachment to the facts presented. Forget the emotion and follow the reason will help you to search for the truth. Be professional in dealing with the whole searching to guard oneself not to fall into judgement based on emotion. To have the conviction that the truth can set you free. Free from malicious thoughts, free from intriguing conclusions, free from imprisonment, free from fear, free from attachments, free from guilt, free from sufferings, free from silence, free to hope, free to have faith and free to love.

Once we know what really happened and we grasp the truth in our hand, the whole situation becomes Real. We can hold it as we see it in our eyes all the facts presented, all researches made, all arein place and we now have the right to make our conclusion. The judgement that we make will then give way to our reaction, passion will then follow lead by our emotion. The motion of our heart and mind based on the truth that we hold will fuel our passion to move and take the course of action.

So to sum up, if in an organization, unity seems impossible, check on the truth of relationships in the group. Is it real? If it is, then there's no question why it is unified? If it is not, how do you think peace work should find its way?

Wellness Tip: Lower Your Cholesterol & Avoid Heart Disease

15 Tips For Avoiding Heart Disease | ThirdAge: LDL is known as the “bad” cholesterol while HDL is the “good”, but there is now some debate even about that. The bad cholesterol is increased by saturated fats in your diet, which causes plaque to build up in the arteries leading to heart disease. HDL is believed to be beneficial in clearing the plaque. Important takeaway: you want to monitor your diet in order to lower the plaque-causing cholesterol.

Start with portion control.Let’s face it, Americans just plain eat too much. Use your hand as a way to measure the right size portions. A serving of your protein of choice would be about what fits into your hand. A serving of pasta, rice or cooked vegetables should fit into your cupped hands. A serving of fresh fruit is about the size of your fist. And don’t even ask about dessert.

Heart-healthy Diet BasicsStart with fish twice a week. Why? Fish is low in saturated fats and high in omega-3 fatty acids which help lower triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood. Order salmon, tuna, trout and sardines. And broiled or baked, please. No fried fish and chips.

The Right CarbsWe all need carbohydrates for energy, but not all carbs are created equal. Your best bet is to get your energy from carbs like whole grains, whole-wheat pasta and beans, which are high in fiber, will raise your sugar levels less and can help lower cholesterol. Limit your intake of other carbs like white potatoes, cake and white rice—they’ll make your blood sugar levels skyrocket and crash much faster, which can leave you feeling hungry.

From The Ground UpIt’s hard to say whether the antioxidants in fruits and veggies help lower LDL cholesterol or if it’s just that we tend to eat less fattening foods if we’re the type who crave apples and carrots as snacks. Either way, load up on these all-natural, delicious foods—they help keep your blood pressure down and your weight at a healthy number.

Whole Grains For Breakfast
Help reduce LDL by having a bowl of oatmeal or whole grain cereal for breakfast. Plus, the fiber and complex carbs in these grains will keep you feeling full, so you’ll be less likely to pit stop at office vending machine for an unhealthy snack. Wild rice, brown rice, popcorn and whole-wheat flower are other examples of whole grains.

Eat “Good” FatEven when you’re watching your waistline, you can’t completely cut fat from your diet. About 25-35 percent of our daily caloric intake should consist of healthy, unsaturated fats which helps to lower LDL cholesterol levels and raise HDL cholesterol. Unsaturated fat can be found in canola, olive and safflower oils.

Lose WeightIf you’re carrying too much extra weight, you could be at risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even type 2 diabetes. Combat cardiovascular disease by watching your weight and losing extra fat, especially fat around your midsection, which is associated with the hardening of your arteries.

Work OutAll you need is 30 minutes of physical activity five days a week (yes, walking counts!) to help lower your LDL cholesterol levels and boost your HDL cholesterol. Exercising helps keep your weight in check and your body in shape which can help prevent your arteries from clogging.

Nuts For NutsIt’s not all bad news. Nuts, which are a lot of people’s favorite snack, are good for you. They lower bad LDL and increase the probably beneficial HDL. Studies say people who eat an ounce of nuts a day have lower rates of heart disease. But it is only an ounce. Try them as a snack before meals since they also cut your appetite.

How To Eat OutSeeing a tempting photograph of a juicy hamburger on the menu doesn’t make it easy to eat healthy at a restaurant. But even when you’re not eating at home it’s still important to stick to foods that are low in saturated fat, sodium and calories to help keep your cholesterol at a healthy level. Don’t order anything that is cooked “fried”—stick to boiled, steamed, baked and grilled. And don’t forget to control your portion size—if the dish you ordered was bigger than you expected, take the rest of it home

Don’t StressSome research suggests that high stress can actually directly increase your cholesterol levels. In addition, stressing out all the time can raise your blood pressure and cause plaque from the cholesterol to build up in your arteries. Decompress and relax at least once a day—try meditating, going for a walk or taking deep breaths.

See A Doctor RegularlyIf you know you have high cholesterol, it is important to check in with your doctor regularly to make sure everything is running smoothly. There’s no doubt that managing your cholesterol takes work. So when your doctor makes suggestions regarding your diet, health and lifestyle choices, make sure you listen!

Read Those LabelsThe super-market shelves can be a bit overwhelming, but for your heart’s sake, it important to take a minute to scan the box and know what you’re buying. To ensure that your choice is healthy, check the ingredients and nutrition facts— “whole wheat” or “whole grain” should be one of the first ingredients listed and the saturated fat content should low. Also, make note of the serving size—it may be bigger than you think!

Take ControlYour doctor may know best, but in the end, the only person who can take control and better your health is you. Make healthy choices daily that will keep your cholesterol levels in check—order the bean salad instead of the cheeseburger—and get ready to enjoy a longer, more fulfilling life!

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