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It
is easy to look around and notice what’s wrong. It takes practice to
see what’s right. Positive energy heals, conducts love, and transforms.
Choose positive energy.
Melody Beattie
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised.
American Proverb
“The
reprieve from everything negative that these animals offered me was
enormous. I was feeling very apart from nature. I had lost my
fascination with people. Being so close to the horses and alpacas was
really special.”
Lauren Grabelle, quoted in Unlikely Loves by Jennifer S. Holland
This
week got off to a blazing start. When I was in Africa, I fell in love
with the Chimfunshi sanctuary and I met amazing people, including
beautiful ebony-skinned ones. I wondered if, in my lifetime, Hollywood
could embrace this beauty. Imagine my delight when Oscar winner Lupito
Nyong’o’s moving speech on black beauty went viral, empowering others to
step out of internalized racism and into a new standard of splendor. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/lupita-nyongo-delivers-an-incredible-speech-on-beauty-i-prayed-to-god-for-lighter-skin/story-fn907478-1226846866664
What
allows you to move in positive ways? We are in constant transformation.
Let me introduce you to Nick Ortner helping us “tap” our way into
transcendent tipping points and to Ryan Eliason, whose mission is:
“empower 20,000 social entrepreneurs with mindset shifts and tangible business skills needed to make a positive impact in the world.”
When
I need a hit of the positive, I dip into nature’s beauty: flowers,
rocks, mountain views. When not writing, working, being with animals or
engaged in soulful conversations, I occasionally look to what new offers
the television industry has.
My
criteria: Is it affirmative? Does it model good values? Is it
inclusive? Recently, three shows made the grade: “The Fosters”,
“Parenthood” and “Switched At Birth”. They feature families honoring
diversity and who are lavish with amends. Actors who might be overlooked
are celebrated, with no culture or race upstaging the other. Oscar
winner Marlee Matlin shares that in "Switched at Birth," she gets to be
herself. It is a beautiful new cultural fabric that we are weaving. We
have raised the bar.
Not only did Lupito
Nyong’o move me to tears, but also my heart leapt up with a client’s
watershed breakthrough. As an activist, my client got caught in a
breakdown of “us against them.” Old conditioned bias sabotaged her
efforts.
Through
her leadership development, this client committed to ending her
negative speech and angry outbursts. She cast new stones upon the water.
No longer muttering, she is making a solid leadership stand for women
caught below the poverty line. Aligned with her values, she teaches
organizations to do their leadership development work first. Slow down
and do your own work.
We
toasted her 20-year project completion that celebrates the feminist
movement’s positive impact and her philanthropy on behalf of shared
wealth. She offered what helped in 2013: “Many things, equine-guided
leadership, a horse named Lilly, meditation and moving up the scale.” http://namasteglobalvision.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NamasteDeclaringNewFuture-3%20copy.pdf
Isn’t it amazing what can we can accomplish in this new movement to step into the positive?
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