FACE THE BRUTES

Face the brutes!!

The WEAK have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us; they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.

"Once when I was in Varanasi, I was passing through a place where there was a large tank of water on one side and a high wall on the other. It was in the grounds where there were many monkeys. The monkeys of Varanasi are huge brutes and are sometimes surly. They now took it into their heads not to allow me to pass through their street, so they howled and shrieked and clutched at my feet as I passed. As they pressed closer, I began to run, but the faster I ran, the faster came the monkeys and they began to bite at me. It seemed impossible to escape, but just then I met a stranger who called out to me, "Face the brutes". I turned and faced the monkeys, and they fell back and finally fled.

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. If we are ever to gain freedom, it must be by conquering nature, never by running away. Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. "

- Swami Vivekanand

[Courtesy: OLI VIMALA BLOG]

HOW TO SPEAK WELL WITH CONFIDENCE ?

How to Speak Well and Confidently

Are you very shy when it comes to new surroundings, such as starting a new class or moving to a new area ?

Sometimes, it is necessary to overcome your shyness and speak confidently. By doing this, it can help you not only to share your ideas properly to others, but also to learn communicating with others. Here are a few steps to consider when speaking with confidence.

Steps : Learn how to have conversations with people. Your ideas or opinions may not always be accepted by others, but this is nothing unusual. Open your mouth, express your beliefs! This will improve your courage.

Don’t be afraid and speak loudly. If you speak in a low voice, not only will others not be able to hear what you say, but you will also portray a submissive demeanor, which suggests the opposite of a confident one.

Make an eye contact when you speak. For one thing, it is polite for others. Also, eye contact will help others to listen to your thinking carefully.Praise yourself everyday! This will promote your own confidence, which is important when you speak. With more confidence, people will take your thinking more seriously.

Tips :

Don’t be nervous when you make mistakes. Human error is far from being a new concept — nobody is perfect! It is normal for everyone to make mistakes. Just calm down and keep speaking bravely.

Try and try again! This may be difficult for a shy person at first, but you need to force yourself to speak, and not seclude your thoughts. If you have some ideas, then try to speak out! Don’t just keep them in your head.

If, you have self confidence issues, try to think that you are the only one who has sound knowledge about the topic. Then go ahead and impart your knowledge to the audience in an effective way.

Remember that, there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Don’t portray an exaggerated amount of confidence, or you will come off as arrogant, believing that your ideas are better than the ideas of everyone else.

from : Priya Malhotra

Your children are not your children

By –kabhil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are send forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

and he bends you with his might that
His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

EDUCATION IS THE SOLUTION

"O God!

Educate these children.

These children are the plants of Thine orchard,

the flowers of Thy meadow,

the roses of Thy garden.

Let Thy rain fall upon them;

let the Sun of Reality

shine upon them with Thy love.

Let Thy breeze refresh them

in order that they may be trained,

grow and develop

and appear

in the utmost beauty.

Thou art the Giver.

Thou art the Compassionate.

By -'Abdu'l-Bahai

May we all be enabled to provide such a good example for them as they grow and develop.

Education is the answer of many problems!

O God, Educate ALL children, Give all of us ability, strength and opportunity to help children to provide them education of Arts, Science and also Moral education - so that it may be easier for such souls to know Thee and worship thee and follow the commandments of HIM. They may walk on His path and educate further hundreds of souls who are in darkness and help them to bring them to light.

I have a pious duty to teach children. LET US CONTRIBUTE LITTLE TO EDUCATION

- A SMALL EFFORT MAY BRING SOMEONE IN LIGHT FROM DARKNESS.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN

Understanding Gardner's Multiple Intelligence in Children

"Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create

products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings."

(- By Howard Gardner Frames of Mind, 1993. )

What type of intelligence do you expect from your child ?

How do you like him or her to develop his or her intellect

and talent ?

Is it one of those number crunching abilities ?

Do you want your child to develop a number of verbal and

language skills ?

Do you wish your child to be an extraordinary athlete ?

All these above questions are may be from the parents/techers/care taker of the child and it is for their attention.Let us unite and understand our child and the multible intelligence.it is our dedication for all the child.

In the past, experts defined intelligence as something that can deal effectively with the environment that includes an inherent ability to reason and solve most common problems that occur on a consistent basis. However, there were doubts raised on how one can define and describe intelligence and smartness in people, especially in growing children.

In 1983, Harvard scholar and psychologist, Howard Gardner proposed a new and fresh theory on intelligence in people that contained much more than just simple definitions of intelligence and smartness. According to Howard Gardner, the words multiple intelligence are new and fresh look at identifying, explaining and defining the word ¡° intelligence ¡±. A growing child will have a range of abilities and skills that relate to a particular area of activity and performance.

Howard Gardner suggested the following descriptions of the multiple intelligence domains. Instead of having or owning just one type of intelligence, it is claimed that children possess several different intelligences.

1) Kinesthetic (Body Smart):

Your child is body smart! He or she is very versatile in acting, mimicking or even moving from one place to the other. You child may like to make a number of things and enjoy activities like sports, dancing and drama. Your child can learn through the movements of their body structure and he or she may possess very fine motor control of muscle and bones. Your child may be a quick learner as well. Children with this intelligence tend to learn things like swimming, field sports and gymnastics very quickly.

2) Logical (Number Smart):

With this intelligence, your child will have a keen sense of logic and number (arithmetic). You child can easily solve simple problems, or she or he can decipher and decode simple challenges, perform science experiments, participate in complicated board games or even take part in complex problem solving scenarios. Your child is also number smart. He or she may be very good at doing mathematical subject and perform a variety of number activities.

3) Intra-personal (Me Smart):

With this intelligence, your kid may be very adept at socializing with other people. Your child may be too extrovert by showing a sense of friendliness to others. Your child may like to lead people and support other in the group. He or she may also be very good at communicating others. He or she will know about strengths and weakness and understand the limit at which they can perform a particular activity.

4) Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart):

If , your child has this intelligence, he or she may be good at visualizing things and events. Your child may like to draw and paint objects and figures. He or she may also like to design and solve complex pattern related problems. People with this intelligence tend to succeed in areas like visual memory, engineering and construction. Map reading, solving complex maze like problems and finding graphical solutions are the other areas where your child may excel.

5) Linguistic (Word Smart):

With this amazing intelligence, you child could be excellent in written, spoken and composed words. Your child may be an expert in reading, telling stories, talking, writing stories and poems as well as hearing and reading. Your child is always a word smart person.

6) Inter-personal (People Smart):

This type of intelligence signifies that your child could be very adept at working and socializing with his or her peers. Your child may also be a leader who wants to lead his or her friends and peers in the school. Children with this strength are versatile in communicating their mind and opinions with others. Your child can easily mix and gel with others.

7) Musical (Music Smart):

Your child could excel in creating music and evaluating different kinds if sounds. Your child may also like to sing, play, participate in musical events, play musical instruments and compose songs and lyrics. Your child may be music smart with this intelligence.

8) Naturalistic (Nature Smart):

This type of intelligence may make your child like working with living things like animals, pets, plants and other creatures. Your child may also like to be alone with the natural objects and things. This intelligence signifies that your child is nature smart and interested in world of plants, animals and enjoys learning more about them.

NO WHERE TO GO.BUT WITHIN

In today’s world we are the most comfortable beings on this world as far as the technological conveniences and comforts are concerned. Here, the question is, are we really comfortable in terms with our inner-world or the joyfulness is concerned ? it is not. is n't it?

I have found one thing, after being with many people, they all running their life ...with so much of inner urgency, always hurry, rushing towards something externally, and not able to hear or fallow their inner -voice, simply they all ,always busy or doing something restlessly, even it is not necessary. Which, they would have thought that, it was very essential at that moment. If, one’s look at all those previous / past happennings.it is all look funny now. Now one may realize that, its all waste of time or one is not satisfied about it...why is it so..!! It’s Almost happens with every one, than what shall we do about it. There is a way....

Just stop, still, pause, relax, and take your own time to decide what you are going do to. Do not rush. Hear you rinner-voice or instinct / intuition / hunch…listen, than proceed...enjoy all your doings willingly,...without any urgency...its not needed...this is the way you can attain your contentment / fulfillment...whatever you may do. Does it with totality. that will give you new meaning and grace in your life.

It’s like this - the wild-water always rushing towards, it does not know where it’s going and where it destiny ends, but it simply rush & rush destroy so many things. And it may not be as useful as the normal river is.

The river, flow smoothly, and spread its wing's every where. to the farm land, to the plants, to the people and the cattle in and around...and finally merge into the ocean...because it is channelised properly towards its destination.here the end point for both of the rivers are the same. but the water wastage in wild flood water is so high.

We all are restless as far as our external world is concerned; we are like the sea waves at the top.We must be calm like the deep sea. No disturbing waves, the water is calm. Content enough, without any outer wave’s disturbance, we must learn the art of going deep within us....this is a rare chance for you to go within you, there is no where to go? There is nothing to achieve. Use / transform all your external conveniences / comforts / energy to go within you. It is the real bridging of the two worlds and live a life of blissfulness.