The AIM is to EXCITE, INFORM, INSPIRE

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The AIM of this site is to
UPLIFT, INFORM, INSPIRE

Reading

Reading mind expanding, reliable, reputable and enjoyable material DAILY helps create and expand your life. By life, I mean in every area, mind, body and spirt. 47 books are listed with a couple of authors having books in a series so, counted as one book.

They aren’t all an easy read first time around, but an enriching one and get easier with rereads. As you enjoy them, you’ll also grow from the challenge they present.  At least, that’s how it’s been for me.

To gain the most from your reading, it requires commitment to regular reading. If you can only read a few days a week and not daily, that’s fine but, keep to that number, don’t slacken off, if possible.

You can often purchase them for a good price through online bookstores and, you’ll also get a synopsis of what the book is about and reviews. The authors are in alphabetical order. Some are novels to just enjoy, some books are metaphors for aspects of life, others are “text bookish”.

Certain books, I’ll simply choose for instant pick-me-ups..  A few I found in second-hand bookstores. I love browsing through them.
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AMEN, Daniel G – Change Your Brain, Change Your Body – Use your brain to get and keep the body you have always wanted

AURELIUS, Marcus, Meditations

BYRNE, Lorna – Angels in my Hair

CAHART, T. E. -The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

CANNON, Dolores – The Search for Hidden Sacred Knowledge

CHOPRA, Deepak – Power, Freedom and Grace, Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness

CHOPRA, Deepak – Metahuman, Unleashing your Infinite Potential

CHOPRA, Deepak – Quantum Healing, Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine

CHOPRA, Deepak – The Book of Secrets, Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

COELHO, Paulo – The Alchemist

COEHLO, Paolo – The Archer

DAVIES, Paul – The Mind of God

DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY – The Little Prince

DISPENZA, Joe – Evolve Your Brain, the Science of Changing your Mind

DOIGT, Norman – The Brain’s Way of Healing

EDWARDS, Betty – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, A course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence

EMOTO, Masaru – The Secret Life of Water

GAWLER, Ian – The Mind that changes Everything, 48 Creative Meditations that will enrich your Life

GIBRAN, Kahlil – The Prophet

HAWKINS, David R – Power vs Force, The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour

HAWKINS, David R – The Eye of the I, from which Nothing is Hidden

HESSE, Hermann – Siddharta

HILL, Napoleon – Think & Grow Rich

HILL, Napoleon – The Law in Sixteen Lessons

HOF, Wim – The Wim Hof Method, Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits

HOLIDAY, Ryan – The Obstacle is the Way

LAMPEDUSA, Tomasi di – The Leopard

LAWRENCE, Christopher – Swooning, A Classical Guide to Life, Love, Lust and other Follies

LEVITIN, Daniel – this is Your Brain on Music – Understanding a Human Obsession

LIPTON, Bruce H – The Biology of Belief, Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

LIPTON, Bruce – Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future (and the way to get there from here)

MANDINO, Og – The Greatest Miracle in the World

McKELVEY, Jim – The Innovation Stack, Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

ORCZY, Baroness – the Emperor’s Candlesticks

RENARD, Gary R – The Disappearance of the Universe – Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

RESTAK, Richard – The Brain has a Mind of its Own, Insights from a Practicing Neurologist

ROGERS, Clint G – Ancient Secrets of a Master Healer, A Western Sceptic, an Eastern Master, and Life’s Greatest Secrets

ROSEN, Charles – Piano Notes, the Hidden World of the Pianist

RUIZ, Don Miguel – the various Agreement books, and others

SINGER, Michael A. – The Untethered Soul, the journey beyond yourself

SMISMAN, Anneloes & HOUSTON, Jean – The Quest of Rose

SPINA, R J – Supercharged Self-Healing, A Revolutionary Guide to Access High-Frequency States of Consciousness that Rejuvenate and Repair

TOLLE, Eckhart – The Power of Now, A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

TOLLE, Eckhart – Practicing the Power of Now, Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises for Living the Liberated Life

TOLLE, Eckhart – A new Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

WALSH, Neale Donald – the Conversations with God Series

YOGANANDA, Paramahansa – Autobiography of a Yogi

The Piano – Part 1

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Music

  1. The Piano – Beginning
    Part 1

A slight introduction is necessary.

In 1952, I arrived with my parents in Australia. That is 7 years after World War II ended. All I had seen till then were bombed cities, bombed countrysides and many dead bodies.

First Australian port was Fremantle, then Adelaide, followed by Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. You can imagine my surprise when nothing was destroyed here. This was followed by the long, slow train trip to Townsville where the person lived who guaranteed for us to arrive in Australia.

We stayed there a year before moving to Brisbane. Now, building a life started in earnest. We boarded with a family before my parents bought a run-down house that needed massive renovations.

No one had any money so, all the migrants exchanged services as house repairs were needed, roof repairers, plumbers, concreters, electricians, my parents did their own painting. and so on. People grew their vegetables in their back yards and joined consortiums to buy other foods cheaper in bulk.

When I was about 12, my mother decided I should learn the piano. Up the road from where she had her dressmaking shop/business was a piano teacher, an elderly lady. Once a week I would go there for a lesson. She was strict and often hit my knuckles with a ruler when my hand position was not to her liking. But I liked her, and I grew to love the piano.

After 4 years, my father regraduated from medical school and could earn money, and so my mother closed the shop. My father had been a doctor in Europe, but Australian law dictated that all such professionals had to redo their studies.

I was sorry to leave my piano teacher, but my love of the instrument was cemented for life.

Fast forward

As a result, by the time I was 16, I had decided that I wanted to be a professional pianist when I grew up. I went to the Music Conservatorium to engage in advanced study. My teacher and I strongly disagreed in many things. Also, my home life had become a friction factory, no one got on (they soon divorced) and, I decided, I didn’t need another source of friction with my piano teacher.  I was then placed into boarding school.

The photo above is me at the Steinway Showroom in 2011 in New York. Physical tours no longer are offered but, you can do a virtual tour if you follow this link.

Me playing the Steinway grand at the New York showroom in 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing Wisdom

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Please read and internalize:
Everyone is born with the potential of Wisdom within them. No exceptions.
Please remember this whenever doubt or frustrations appear.

However, just as with all the other great attributes of our body and mind, if we don’t nourish them with foods, fluids, thoughts and actions that are beneficial – we’re not going to develop them in the way intented.

That is, for the greater good of ourselves and humanity.

Simple, yes. Easy, no.
We need to put the effort into making our life the way we want it to be.
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You can read umpteen books on any field of interest and gain its knowledge and, that’s exactly what you’ll get, knowledge only, fact or fiction. This is important to be aware of. This is not Wisdom.

Many people have opinions based on minimal knowledge. Even if they have read or watched multiple videos, etc on that topic. Unless they have cultivated the desire for Wisdom, they are unlikely to broaden their research.

In today’s world of amazing technology and open source information, this trap is deeper than ever.

The attainment of Wisdom will be illusive.  Wisdom is instrumental into living a fulfilling life with minimization of stress factors. Stress factors are simply things that push our buttons.

Humans have an amazing brain, innately unlimited in its capacity to understand and absorb information.  Wisdom, however, comes from being discerning and putting empowering knowledge into your daily life,  experiencing the consequences and, learning from them.

6 Ancient Women Philosophers

FOR MORE: Knowledge Vs Wisdom

 

A Bit of Back History

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A bit of back history.

(Courtesy of Khan Academy)
(a) “Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago.

The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.
Humans are the only known species to have successfully populated, adapted to, and significantly altered a wide variety of land regions across the world, resulting in profound historical and environmental impacts.

Though there were once many kinds of hominids, only one remains: Homo sapiens. Extinction is a normal part of evolution, and scientists continue to theorize why other hominid species didn’t survive.”
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(b)  (from Access your Wisdom) 

It’s important to understand why we are global in the current situation.  It does have to do with Wisdom; that is, lack of it.

All of us, yes, you and me, are participants in the evolution and growth of Earth and life on this magnificent planet. We are here together to make the changes required to move from the chaos we are currently experiencing.

This chaos has been going on for a long time, centuries, but increasingly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around mid-1760s. This saw inequality of a different sort emerging from the previous royalty, aristocracy, and an increasing upper class versus the general population.

Suffice to say, the division between these groups and the emerging worker/labourer of the Industrial Revolution with poor wages and working conditions, coupled with legislations to ensure that these divisions are magnified, became wider and deeper. The degree varied in countries. Greed and thirst for power, however, knows no boundaries.

To bring it back to now, the increasing chaos was accelerated and intensified with the health crisis which officially began in 2020. The financial damage done to the average person and business is beyond description and continues to haunt the world at the time of writing in mid-2023.

It will not abate in the foreseeable future; economies will attempt to crawl out of the “black hole”.

Only intelligent thinking and subsequent actions, applying WISDOM, will start to relieve the catastrophic situation many are facing.

FOR MORE: Introducing Wisdom

 

Wisdom – Part 2

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The discussion of Wisdom has, at least, two components:

  1. That the speaker or writer is at least of a certain age (that will be dependent on culture) and,
  1. That, the person has no age restriction. This one is because my 8 year old granddaughter can come up with pearls of wisdom missing in some adults.

This Wisdom discussion will relate to Component 1.

What is Wisdom? The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (2007) enlightens us thus:

  1. The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
    (My addition: on whatever the discussion topic is about)
  2. The body of knowledge and experience that develops within a particular society or historical period. (My addition: on the relevant topic)

History is resplendent with the life and wise accomplishments of men and women who helped create how we live today. Sadly, the amount of information via official education is negligible and yet, much of that is what has formed today’s world.
(My addition: How is a youngster and even an adult supposed to make sense of the extremes we experience today?)

So, what does the above definition actually mean? We know that each of us sees and therefore experiences the same situation differently.

Ask half a dozen people the details of an event they each witnessed at the same time, and you’ll get half a dozen different versions. They may have commonalities but that’s it.

Each of us views experiences according to
– our past experiences,
– our biases,
– our religious involvements,
– our spiritual connections,
– teachings of people of past or present influences
– and so on.

Oh, dear, what is really ours? Actually, not much!

In other words, we see things from our memory and our current model of the world.

This, of course, makes the discussion of Wisdom even more complicated. Whose wisdom is it then? Remember, Wisdom is dependent on

  1. Whether we have experienced something
  2. Whether we have knowledge about it. If we haven’t experienced it, it presupposes that we have done much research on the topic to become informed (not limited research or hearsay).
  3. So that, we can make a good judgment about it.

Whatever perspective you have on any topic, I ask the following:

  1. Let’s keep comments, opinions, and discussions clean and respectful – that’s part of Wisdom.
  2. We are all on this Earthly journey together. The energy we transmit, circulates to the furthest corner of Earth and influences events.
  3. We are all co-creators with our thoughts and actions.

Basically, we  all want the same in life.

FOR MORE: Education and Wisdom

Back to Part 1 

Wisdom – Part 1

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WHAT IS WISDOM?

PART 1
Wisdom is not an easy term to define, to understand nor to practice in daily life at this time in our human evolution.  The application of Wisdom today is like a lost art, a dinosaur, to living life with inner peace and tranquillity, caring for ourselves and others, and consideration and respect for all.

Wisdom, by osmosis, enables us to energetically transfer those qualities to everyone we come in contact with.

Wisdom is not something that we talk about these days, it’s like a “cute” thought, a relic of past eras, part of the “academic” realms, a past characteristic that has no place in today’s “superior” world of gadgetry, consumer madness, having to possess the latest fad, when mental illness has become the norm.

We now talk of cleverness, intelligence, intellect, craftiness, shrewdness, marketing ability (largely for the extraction of people’s money and to enrich others) and so on.

We are told what is good for us, so that we no longer think for ourselves. Lies flood what we read and hear to perpetuate how others want us to behave.

It’s like we live in the “crazy mirrors” section of a carnival. We are not supposed to evaluate what is regurgitated by these deceptive mirrors. You know what I’m getting at, don’t you?

Consequently, I’ve divided the topic of Wisdom into 2 parts.

FOR MORE: Link to Part 2.

For You

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This is me, Gloria, at Australia Zoo. I’m your mentor.

What is a mentor? Briefly, it’s a person who brings out all the wonderful attributes in another person that they aren’t aware of.

In other words, I help you discover the inner brilliance you already possess but haven’t yet discovered or are shying away from, probably the result of limiting beliefs.

From the moment you are born, most of what you hear about yourself is what you can’t do, what you’re not good at, what’s annoying about you. When other kids and adults don’t like something about you, when they deem you, naughty, clumsy, etc or, you are likened to annoying characteristics of other members of your family or other humans, it cements those characteristics in you. You know what I mean, don’t you?

No matter what age you are, you can remember comments such as:

  • You’re no good at art, science, speaking.
  • You’re shy, loud, talk too much, don’t talk enough.
  • You always make a mess.
  • You’re mean, you’re a cheat.

On and on these flooded our ears over the years and subsequently, our subconscious which always has it’s “ears” pricked and remembers.

These useless, damaging descriptors become part of who and what you think you are, your identity. These plague you forever, in one form or another… unless you are aware of that.

Add to the above, unflattering comments about your looks. Yikes! And, with the years, you added to this litany of insults about yourself. Double Yikes!! And, you now believe, there is so much wrong with you! Triple yikes!!!

Just as rain washes away dirt from the pavement, so can you wash away from the past what doesn’t serve your greatest good for your present and future. Stick around, we’ll journey this exciting ride together.

It just takes “a spoon full of COURAGE” – adapted from Mary Poppins 🙂

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Please reread the above. I want you to believe that YOU already have within you whatever you need to enjoy the life that you want in all its dimensions.

Simplistically, it means that when you want to make a decision, you have to first of all, listen to your heart. Your mind can deceive you as it has programming, your heart doesn’t, it operates from a different energy source.

In another section, I’ll list my credentials and why I can say what I’ve said above. I want this page to be about you.

4 Main Areas of Life

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4 MAIN AREAS OF LIFE
Like the plant, we grow as a result of nurturing. Self-nurturing is a life’s journey.

1. Relationships (Associations)

a. Love of self
b. Close family
c. Extended family
d. Close friends
e. Distant friends/acquaintances
f. Work colleagues & work network, business partner/s
g. Trusted professionals, medical related, veterinarian, therapist, accountant, mechanic, solicitor
h. Media friends

2. Wellbeing

a. Lifestyle
b. Health, Diet
c. Fitness
d. Stress awareness/management
e. Time allocation/prioritization
f. Hobbies, Creativity
g. Gratitude

3. Money (Finances)

a. Main income
b. Side income
c. Debt
d. Necessary expenses
e. Optional expenses
f. Savings
g. Investment
h. Giving – money

4. Advancement (Personal Growth) (Topics above develop from here)

a. Spiritual practices, Faith, Rituals
b. Personal mentoring, learning from past experiences
c. Reading (books, Kindle, audio books)
d. Learning, educational advancement
e. Mission (dedicated flexible life plan)
f. Vision (for self & family)
g. Giving back – time

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