WELCOME TO
LAUGHING LIFE COACH
MARCH NEWSLETTER 2005
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Remember that not
getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck."
-----Dalai Lama
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What nation can save the world?
answer:
Your imagination
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Once you get people laughing,
they're listening and you can
tell them almost anything.
--Herbert Gardner
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Humor brings Laughter, Laughter brings Breath, Breath brings Essence
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JUST A THOUGHT
CRADLE TO CRADLE: REMAKING THE WAY WE MAKE THINGS
WILLIAM MC DONOUGH
Architect, Visionary, Designer, Corporate Consultant
William McDonaugh and Michael Braungart founded the McDonough Bruangart Design Chemistry (MBDC) company to help companies make environmentally safe products that are “less wasteful” and “less expensive to make” than traditionally manufactured products.
The cradle-to-cradle design protocol is “waste = food”. In other words, waste is not an option. Whatever by-products are produced must be completely safe and reusable.
Their first design project was to develop a collection of compostable fabrics for Designtex, which manufactures commercial upholstery, wall coverings, office panel systems, and window treatments. Out of the 8,000 prospective dyes and chemicals they could use, they found just 38 that qualified. Working with a small Swiss fabric mill, they developed a toxin-free fiber and a production process so clean, it produces portable water and scrap felt trimmings that local farmers can use to mulch their strawberry fields…. forever.
McDonough has designed human and earth friendly facilities, solar and geothermal buildings for companies like Herman Miller Furniture, The Gap, and Oberlin College in Ohio. He has motivated companies like Nike and Ford to create an earth-healthy production process that would make regulation redundant.
McDonough has inspired and confounded both “regulation-wary” business folks and organically-“dye-in-the-wool” environmentalists by insisting we can have a healthy economy and a healthy ecology if we “consider nature as a model inventor, not an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.”
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Life is something that happens
when you can't get to sleep.
~ Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Let the wind blow through your hair
while you still have some.
~ Dave Weinbaum
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Draw a crazy picture - Write a nutty poem - Sing a mumble-gumble song
Whistle through your comb - Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor
Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
--Shel Silverstien
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JUST ANOTHER THOUGHT
Exerts from
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru emoto
The entire universe is in a state of vibration, and each thing generates its own frequency, which is unique. Emoto’s years of research into water has taught him that this is the fundamental principle of the universe. It is indeed difficult to believe that things that you can pick up with your hands and examine ----things like wood, rocks, and concrete----are all vibrating.
…..now the science of quantum mechanics generally acknowledges that substance is nothing more than vibration. Everything is eternally moving and vibrating—on and off, at an incredible speed. The fact that everything is in a state of vibration also means that everything is creating sound. And as sound is created, there is a master listener to receive the sound: water.
Water---so sensitive to the unique frequencies being emitted by the world----essentially and efficiently mirrors the outside world….. and changes these vibrations into a form that can be see with the human eye.
The average human body is 70% water. Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe. The various events that unfold throughout a person’s life are events reflected in water. The individual and society make up one enormous ocean, by adding our individual drops to the ocean, we participate in the formation of society.
If you re-examine the world around you from this new perspective, you will start to see things as you have never seen them before.
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Children laugh an average of 146 times a day;
Adults laugh an average of 4 times a day.
The best blush to use is laughter:
It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
--Linda Knight
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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life.
It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry,
and makes it easier to swallow.
~ Diane Johnson, Zen Soup, 2003
The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows
himself to be a fool."
-- William Shakespeare
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AND JUST ONE MORE THOUGHT
The Precious Moment
exert from Michelle Engel’s
"It's A New World After All"
April 2004
Michelle Engel
- Writer, Speaker, and Teacher -
We experience the flow of Life as we exist in each moment of now. Every moment is a gift, a valuable gift of Life. As we recognize the gifts in each moment, we realize how precious Life is; both our gratitude and awareness expand.
We have abundant Life energy and the opportunity to direct it according to our free will. We have the freedom to choose our thoughts and feelings in each moment. We simultaneously interpret and create our experiences in each now moment.
We can experience our outer reality with our attention and senses with deep appreciation. We can see what is and feel what is. Acceptance of what is puts us into our Center where we are free to create in each now moment.
Our experiences in Life range from loving moments with intimate partners, affection from family and friends, breathing in the essence of Nature, laughing and celebrating at parties to crying for our losses, or even to mundane things like cleaning the house.
We are increasing our attention to, and depth of, inner experiences these days. We gain awareness of our selves and we consciously choose to improve. Inside, where we gain awareness of ourselves and integrate our experiences with our expanded perception, our very Eternal Self blossoms into our outer personality. We benefit immensely from these changes by raising the quality of our Life with our essence or Being.
To reconcile the truth that Life is change and still stop to be in the now moment helps us to understand our focal point of consciousness and how we fit into and harmonize with the whole. We are aware of our True Self and our eternal nature. We are aware of God, our unlimited Source, of Life. This is where we catch the wave of Life and surf to its crest with expanded awareness. This is where we access and feel the love that is all-inclusive. We all bond in this place energetically. Here is where we are open to receive all of the good things Life has to offer.
We used to hurry so fast. We used to be so caught up in the rat race that we almost went into full rote living, hardly having time to pay attention to our feelings or passions. We thought we had to do that to survive. We thought, That’s the way it is. But now that we know that just isn’t true, we are slowing down, and being in each precious moment. AND we are consciously creating more than we ever had before! We are mastering our energies, transforming them with love, and creating more loving, peaceful, and joyful experiences.
In this New World, we are truly beginning to live up to our name: we are humans being and we are being more joyously and abundantly alive than ever before in each precious moment!
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Michelle is available for:
* Visioning groups
* Private sessions-Readings/life purpose clarity and focus coaching/visioning
* Heart to heart cooperation networking for groups
* Belief transformation/Consciousness shifting for conscious creation
Contact information:
www.visionarysolutions.org
541-772-5266
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Remember “”laughter heals””…….so chuckle a little…..
hehehehehehe……….Helene, Laughing Life Coach…
Laughing Life Coaching, LightBody/DNA Activation,
Connecting with your Innate Intuitive Wisdom
