World's first website to "clean" you of negativity as you review it

Heads up here on a forthcoming book - "Zero Limits" by Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Hew Len.

"Here," says Joe's site, "are two ho'oponopono proven ways to heal yourself (or anyone else) of anything you notice. Remember that what you see in another is also in you, so all healing is self-healing. No one else has to do these processes but you. The entire world is literally in your hands.

First, this is the prayer Morrnah (the creator of this new process) said to help heal hundreds if not thousands of people. It's simple but powerful:

"Divine creator, father, mother, son as one ... If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness ... Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light ... And it is done."

Second, the way Dr. Hew Len likes to heal is to first say "I'm sorry" and "Please forgive me." You say this to acknowledge that something - without you knowing what it is - has gotten into your body/mind system. You have no idea how it got there. You don't need to know, either.

If you are overweight, you simply caught the program that is making you that way. By saying "I'm sorry," you are telling the Divine that you want forgiveness inside yourself for whatever brought it to you. You're not asking the Divine to forgive you; you're asking the Divine to help you forgive yourself.

From there, you say "I love you" and "Thank you."

The "I love you" transmutes the energy from stuck to flowing. It reconnects you to the Divine. Since the zero state is one of pure love, and has zero limits, you are beginning to get to that state by expressing love. When you follow that statement with "Thank you," you are expressing gratitude.

You are showing your faith that the issue will be resolved for the highest good of all concerned.

What happens next is up to the Divine. You may be inspired to take action of some sort. Whatever it is, do it. If you aren't sure about the action to take, use this same healing method on your confusion. When you are clear, you'll know what to do."

The above is a simplified version of the modernized ho'oponopono key methods of healing. To better understand the Self I-Dentity Ho'oponopono process, sign up for a workshop. See www.hooponopono.org

To understand what Dr. Hew Len and Dr. Vitale are doing together, see www.zerolimits.info

You can see another excerpt from the book at http://www.zerolimits.info

In fact, it's the world's first website to "clean" you of negativity as you review it.

You can get the book in book stores or of course from amazon in July, 2007. Please be sure to tell friends and family about it. You can pre-order it at www.amazon.com today.

You can also learn more by reading about the famous "I love you" recording at:
http://www.milagroresearchinstitute.com/iloveyou.htm

Message to Euro-Americans: eat local food, buy global biofuels

The BBC has an interesting story on how Mr Peter Ndivo and Mr Samuel Mauthike, both small Kenyan farmers, are affected by the confusion around concepts such as 'carbon footprints', 'fair trade' or 'food miles'.

Euro-American consumers buy large quantities of fresh luxury products, such as orchids, baby corn, tiny tomatoes, palm hearts, mangos or carambola stars. Most of these exotic vegetables, fruits and flowers are grown by small farmers in the tropics, like Peter and Samuel. The products are flown to Euro-America on a daily basis, in jumbo jets. The smallholders depend on the market for their livelihoods - it feeds their families and allows them send their children to school.
read on at http://biopact.com/2007/02/message-to-euro-americans-eat-local.html

for a further explanation of the abve article on food miles read Saturday, June 09, 2007

Researchers: 'Food miles' too simplistic - 'green' needs 'red'
http://biopact.com/2007/06/researchers-food-miles-too-simplistic.html

With Music in Mind

Music can slip by all words,
dissolve past and future into the moment,
release illusions,
and reach the reality of the heart.

A good composer
enjoys tradition and is happy to ignore it.

Bruce Adolphe

Indigo is the new green

The call to environmental arms, with ‘how to be green’ tips facing us at every turn, is ringing in our collective ears. Quite frankly – and whilst I do agree we should pay more respect to our planetary home – I’m sick of it.

Not because I’ve got a bad case of information overload with green guides coming out of my ears. Or even because I’m a hardened eco-freak who’s been re-using, reducing and recycling since I first clapped eyes on Rachel Carson’s eco-lit classic “Silent Spring”. No. it’s because I think the eco trend is, in the long term, such a dismal vision for mankind.

Let me expand on what may seem a heretical view in these unquestionably green-tinged times. Or to put it another way, let me ask you this: what happens when you feel guilty, badly behaved or that you might be responsible for a looming catastrophe? It’s not very fulfilling or inspiring - is it? You get all the dysfunctional thrills of being a naughty child or failed disciple – thereby easily controlled and manipulated.

And that’s my beef - or if you prefer, nut cutlet - with the green movement. Where’s the joy? Where’s the awe? Where’s the reason to get up and go each day - with a song in your heart and a zest for life - if you’re living under an environmental death sentence or at least facing the green finger of blame?

Whole article: http://www.holisticlocal.co.uk/articles/view/890/Indigo+is+the+new+green

Healing art

"For every piece of high-tech equipment you bring into your workspace, home or public life you should add a strong piece of art." - Thomas Moore in Resurgence

Zenployment

According to www.inthenews.co.uk (Friday, 11 May 2007), more than half of workers in the UK say they would be happy to trade in their high salaries for a job that gives them fulfilment and a sense of self-worth.

A new survey says that 47 per cent of Britons are aiming to have a second career by the time they reach 45. Two-thirds of respondents told Norwich Union, which conducted the research, they are "unfulfilled, miserable or drifting" in their current roles.

The most popular career change jobs named in the 'zenployment' survey include animal welfare worker, counsellor, yoga teacher (interested? Try: kevala yoga teacher course), gardener, artist, climate campaigner and personal trainer.

"This research is further evidence that we're entering a new era, with a society that is less selfish and increasingly focused on personal fulfilment," commented William Nelson of trend analyst Future Foundation.

"In fact, rising affluence and high employment levels mean most of us now feel pretty secure in providing for our basic needs, especially once we are established in careers and the housing market."

And Norwich Union's Simon Quick added: "Once we dreamed of retirement to a country cottage or villa abroad, but this research reveals British workers now aim to do something that offers them fulfilment in the second stage of their lives."

Read the whole story at: http://www.inthenews.co.uk/money/news/finance/half-britain-wants-happiness-over-money-$1084195.htm

Caveman Cuisine

Thanks to Dr John Briffa for this:

"Common sense dictates that the best diet for us is one based on the foods we've been eating the longest in terms of our evolution. After all, these are the foods we'll be best adapted to, right?

Those looking for some science to support this common sense approach might be interested to read the results of a recent study in which a primal or 'palaeolithic' diet was pitted against an eating regime inspired by the much-lauded 'Mediterranean' diet."

Take a new look at old ways at: http://www.thetrueyoudiet.com/articles/primal-diet-outperforms-mediterranean-diet-in-study.html

Dr John Briffa

Discover the truth about healthy eating and the foods that are right for YOU at: http://www.thetrueyoudiet.com

Thanks to Sanjai

Many thanks to Sanjai, who came along to last week's Copper Beech UK team meetings and reminded us to breathe!


It's so obvious; it's so key, yet the world desperately needs Sanjai - because I reckon very few of us make the most of our breath, prana, chi, ki - whatever you want to call it. It's there all the time, right inside us - totally free - and we dare to go looking for more energy, consciousness and fulfilment elsewhere!

As well as getting us breathing again, he showed us how to come from our hearts and hips (rather than that tiny, judgemental little "head-space" that we tend to dwell in and see the world - and each other - from).

His approach to meditation, yoga and spirituality is so now! It's quick, accessible and reliable.

He's the man. and I'm hoping to make some video clips with him soon - watch (literally) this space...and enjoy the benefits yourself.

Eco-village needs help

"Lammas" http://www.lammas.org.uk/ has submitted an application to build a low-impact ecovillage in North Pembrokeshire. Should this application succeed it will have significant implications for sustainable development across the UK.

For the first time since the Second World War there is planning policy now in place (currently only in Pembrokeshire) which states that development in the open countryside can occur if it is low-impact and the people involved are working the land.

The Lammas application has met a mixed reaction from local people. Whilst we have attempted to express the local benefits of the Lammas project, some local activists are creating petitions against the development.

To counter this we need letters of support for the project.

Please help support Lammas by drafting letters of support for the planning application. These letters should be sent to

Planning
1B County Hall
Haverfordwest
Pembrokeshire
SA61 1TP
And referenced:

Planning application by Lammas Low Impact Initiatives Ltd for a settlement of 9 eco-smallholdings at Pontygafel, Glandwr, Pembrokeshire.

Please draft letters as you feel inclined to. All letters of support will be considered by the planning authority. It is important that Lammas is able to demonstrate widespread support for the project, particularly as a counterbalance to some of the local opposition.

The main point to convey is that the project will have a wider positive contribution.

We have compiled a list of additional points which you may or may not want to draw from:

· There is a need for a large scale low-impact project to properly research and document the potential of low-impact development as a tool for rural regeneration.
· As the UK and Welsh Assembly Government acknowledges, climate change, fuel security and other environmental and social challenges are amongst the most serious threats we currently face. Collectively these challenges highlight the need to develop tangible pathways for a sustainability transition. The Lammas project offers a valuable means of developing such pathways.
· The Lammas project has a thoroughly considered management plan for the project which, by its nature, will be transparent and open in its practices and management.
· There is the opportunity for local and wider involvement in the project.
· The project will provide a valuable resource of sustainable technologies and approaches which will be available for people to learn about and/ or experience.
· The project proposes a very thorough and reasonable approach to traffic management.
· Those people living in the project should be supported by the planning authority for their commitment to sustainability.
· The project will provide hand built housing which will be truly affordable.

Wider community benefits will include:

· The availability of locally grown food and other land based products.
· The conservation of traditional agricultural, forestry and craft skills (for example hedge laying, coppicing, gate making, etc.).
· A resource of skills available in the locality (for example teaching sustainable design, green building, renewable technologies).
· The project will contribute to the local economy through both land based produce and by introducing a diverse range of additional skills, products and resources to the area.
· The project will attract interest and visitors to the area.
· The project will compliment the existing arts and crafts industry in the area.
· The project will support local schools, shops and businesses. This is particularly true do to the project’s focus on local living, and traffic reduction, ensuring resources are circulated within the local economy.
· There will be local employment opportunities created by the project.
· The project will increase tree cover, soil depth and biodiversity.
· The project will promote the county as a centre of excellence for "green" issues which will assist in tourism.

Thank you very much, The Lammas team.

Self-centred?

Carl here with the latest name for the CB Mind-body-spirit channel.

We're calling it: "Self Centre - Find your self, be yourself - lose your self"

What do you think?

Inner Peace - Recognising the Symptoms

Thanks to James Williams - an Alliance for a New Humanity member - who sent this to our friend Peggy O'Hare:

Inner Peace - Recognising the Symptoms
(Warning: if you have any or all of these symptoms you are already infectious!)

- A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experience
- An unmistakable ability to enjoy the moment
- A loss of interest in judging other people or yourself
- An inability to worry (this is a very serious symptom!)
- Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation
- Frequent acts of smiling
- An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than to make them happen
- An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

ECO TOURISM

I am sharing an article written for the wiki by Shalmali Rao for all to read. It sums up the basic principles of eco-tourism so well, that all of us would benefit by pondering over the principles or tenets she has outlined. It would also be a great starting point for thoughts on the travel channel. Shalmali is a mountaineering expert and trainer. Here goes (sorry it's a bit long):

• Ecotourism – Shalmali Rao
  
  According to the International Ecotourism Society, ecotourism is 'responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.' Ecotourism is about connecting conservation, communities, and sustainable travel. This means that those who implement and participate in responsible tourism activities should follow the following ecotourism principles:
  
  minimize impact
  
  build environmental and cultural awareness and respect
  
  provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
  
  provide direct financial benefits for conservation
  
  provide financial benefits and empowerment for local people
  
  raise sensitivity to host countries' political, environmental, and social climate
  
  
  Ecotourism Australia says: 'Ecotourism is ecologically sustainable tourism with a primary focus on experiencing natural areas that foster environmental and cultural understanding, appreciation and conservation.'
  Rainforest Alliance defines it as 'a type of sustainable tourism that emphasizes conserving nature and improving the lives of local people in rural and wilderness areas.'
  
  
  Hector Ceballos-Lascurain, a Mexican environmentalist, international ecotourism consultant and architect, coined the term Ecotourism in 1983.
  
  Guidelines:
  The main concept of ecotourism is a basis on a sound conservation practice or code of conduct that works with and supports the local ecology and the indigenous communities, and has a minimal impact on the environment. With the revenues earned, following set guidelines, there has to be a need to involve, employ and include the local communities, contribute to further sustainable development and help with conservation, by making them stakeholders, and by spreading awareness among the eco-tourist of the regions' biological and cultural diversity.
  
  There is a need for increased social and ecological awareness among tourists - like volunteering to travel to regions where the local fauna, flora, ecology, culture are the primary attractions.
  
  Ecotourism is being used as module in many countries, and is not only working successfully, but also providing a major economic activity and industry.
  
  Cautions:
  However, there is a big debate on the impact of ecotourism in sensitive regions and also on the programmes and service providers' way of functioning. Since there is no international set of regulations, the codes and guidelines followed by hospitality providers is erratic, and there is no way to check or regulate them. Ecotourism is being used by many hospitality providers as a marketing tool to promote themselves without implementing eco-guidelines, following responsible environmental practices or sustainability (often referred to as 'green washing') creating a constant debate on whether ecotourism really puts in as much as it takes out of a region.
  
  That being said, though, in many cases the benefits of ecotourism have been tangible, and have helped in preserving and raising awareness of the local ecosystems and communities.
  
  According to Canadian tourism consultant, Pam Wight, the guiding principles for ecotourism should include the following provisions:
  
  - tourist activities must not degrade the resource
  
  - visitors should be offered educational first-hand experiences
  
  - all stakeholders (host community, government, non-governmental organizations, industry, and tourists) must be involved
  
  - tourism must respect the intrinsic value of natural resources
  
  - tourism cannot overtax the resource supplies of the local region
  
  - stakeholders must be encouraged to develop partnerships
  
  - tourist revenue must provide conservation, scientific, or cultural benefits to the resource, local community, and industry as a whole
  
  - these benefits must be long-term [Wight 1993].
  
  According to the Quebec Declaration on Ecotourism, ecotourism embraces the principles of sustainable tourism... and the following principles which distinguish it from the wider concept of sustainable tourism:
  
  Contributes actively to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage,
  
  Includes local and indigenous communities in its planning, development and operation, contributing to their well-being,
  
  Interprets the natural and cultural heritage of the destination to visitor,
  
  Lends itself better to independent travellers, as well as to organized tours
  for small size groups.
  
  Ecotourism Guidelines For Responsible Travellers
  
  Prepare for your trip:
  Choose a destination, tour operator, accommodation (e.g., green lodges), mode of travel, etc., using the best options that have the least impact on the local environment, society and culture. Or, choose those have green certifications and awards. Educate yourself and read up on the area's ecology, geography, culture, history, language, etc.
  
  Conserve resources:
  During your travel, conserve and reduce your consumption of resources such as water, power, food, etc. Your motto should be 'Pack it in, pack it out'.
  
  Respect local traditions and etiquette:
  Wear appropriate clothing, and respect the social and cultural sensibilities of the region when interacting with local residents.
  
  Be flexible in your expectations:
  Travel with an open mind and adapt to the situation, instead of making the situation conform to you.
  
  Support local communities and economies:
  Patronize the local and small-scale industries and communities that make products out of renewable resources. Use local guides, transport, and accommodation that directly benefit the local community.
  
  However, do remember not to buy local fauna and flora parts, skins or products, or take souvenirs like stones, shells, etc., which might lead to the degradation and exploitation of the region, or may be illegal.
  
  Contribute to local NGOs and societies that are working and benefiting the local environment.
  
  For more details and guidelines on what to do when you travel and the hotels to use, see the link
  
  http://www.greenhotels.com/grntrav.htm
  
  
  The Centre for Outdoor Ethics has laid down the 'Leave no Trace' policy for outdoor travel.
  
  The Principles:
  
  Plan Ahead and Prepare
  
  Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
  
  Dispose of Waste Properly
  
  Leave What You Find
  
  Minimize Campfire Impacts
  
  Respect Wildlife
  
  Be Considerate Towards Other Visitors
  
  
  http://www.lnt.org/programs/lnt7/index.html
  
  
  Ecotourism Offshoots:
  
  Sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, conscientious tourism are almost similar in practice and ethics to ecotourism, with marginal differences in definitions. New terms and forms of tourism that are the offshoots of ecotourism are combining and focusing on all aspects of sustainability. This is Geotourism, or, as National Geographic (who coined the term) calls it, the 'The Cousin of Ecotourism'.
  
  Geotourism is defined by the National Geographic Centre for Sustainable Destinations as ‘tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place—its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well-being of its residents'.
  
  Geotourism uses the ethics and ideas of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, and also focuses an emphasis on the local culture and history of the region.
  
  Summits:
  
  2002 was declared the International Year of Eco Tourism. The principal event to mark the occasion was
  
  The Ecotourism Summit, held in Quebec, Canada was organized by the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, and hosted by Tourisme Québec and the Canadian Tourism Commission. These four organisations were the partners responsible for the summit. The purpose was to 'bring together governments, international agencies, NGOs, tourism enterprises, representatives of local and indigenous communities, academic institutions and individuals with an interest in ecotourism, and enable them to learn from each other and identify some agreed principles and priorities for the future development and management of ecotourism.'
  
  
  More Links to Ecotourism:
  
  http://www.wttc.org/
  
  http://www.planeta.com/colibri.html
  
  http://www.skal.org/html/ecotourism/I/eco.htm
  Certification
  
  
  http://www.greenglobe21.com/
  
  http://www.greenhotels.com/
  
  http://www.ecotourismcesd.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=3&z=2
  Organisations
  
  http://www.ecotourism.org/
  
  http://www.pirt.org/travelcode.html
  
  http://www.pirt.org/travelcode.html
  
  http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/tourism.cfm?id=travelers
  
  http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/icer/
  
  http://www.unep.org/
  
  http://www.uneptie.org/PC/tourism/ecotourism/other_websites.htm
  
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/about_geotourism.html
  
  http://www.equitabletourism.org/ecotourism.htm
  
  http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/
  
  http://www.lnt.org/programs/lnt7/index.html