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Contents
1.
Inspirational
quotes
2.
Fantastic
life force by
3.
Find of the week
4.
Health Tips from Herbalist/Nutritionist Tammy Safi
5.
Wild Trivia
6.
Metaphor
7.
martinhunterjones - Change
8.
9.
Motivational
10.
Personal
11.
Testimonials
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1. Inspirational Quotes
Moments in Life
There are moments in life
when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams
and hug them for real!
When
the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at
the closed door that we don't see the one, which has been opened for us.
Dream what you want to
dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only
one life and one chance to do all the things you want
to do.
May you have enough
happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to
keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people
don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future
will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until
you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you
were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Don't count the
years-count the memories........... Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away!
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2. Through A
Wringer By
When I was a little boy we used to
have an old fashioned wringer washing machine. This was an early type of
washing machine in which you had to hand feed the freshly washed clothes
through a pair of moving rolling pins to squeeze the extra water out before
drying. I often wondered how those clothes felt going through them. This
curiosity was painfully ended one day when I was helping my Mom feed the
clothes into them and got my own fingers caught instead. Needless to say,
I was far more careful after that.
Usually after we finished washing the
clothes my Mom would hang them out on the clothes line to dry. I would hand her
the wooden clothes pins as she hung them and help her fold the freshly dried
clothes a few hours later. I can still remember how wonderful they smelled
after warming in God’s sunshine all afternoon. I would hold them up to my face
and delight in their warmth, cleanness, and Heavenly scent.
I know that sometimes it can feel as
if life is putting us all though a wringer washer. The troubles and stresses of
life always seem to want to squeeze and flatten every bit of peace and
happiness out of us. Sometimes our whole day feels like my fingers did that
time when I was a careless young boy. It is up to us, however, to not let
ourselves stay flattened like an old, wet pair of pants. It is up to us to pick
ourselves up and warm our hearts and souls again in the sunshine of God’s love.
It is up to us to choose the Heavenly scent of love and joy moment by moment to
refresh our lives and to share with the world.
I hope then that no matter how
flattened you get by life at times you can still rise up to choose more joy and
love. I hope that no matter how many times you are put through a wringer you
can still come out stronger, better, and closer to God.
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3. Find of the week
“MARS & VENUS” IN COUNSELLING
The NEW SOUTH WALES COUNSELLING ASSOCIATION is proud to present a one day symposium. “The
Mars and Venus” challenges we experience
in counselling. The presenters offer you a highly regarded professional
workshop which is useful for counsellors and group work facilitators. These
presentations promise to contain great practical knowledge and
information. This symposium is sponsored
by the NSWCA, inviting members and interested parties to join with us for a
great day meeting other counsellors and professionals. Included in the cost is a gourmet lunch that
you can enjoy in private surroundings.
Keynote Speaker: Time
Lorna Parker: Brain Sex:
Differences in brain gender and its
interactions with counselling.
Delegates to this presentation will gain insight into the
differences in brain function according to gender, its impact on our clients,
and the effect upon the counsellor’s own approach.
Lorna Parker is a renowned presenter, consultant, “Learning
Technician” and author whose work in the field of learning and human
development spans more than 20 years.
Lorna is passionate about how we can use our knowledge of
the brain to help us understand, improve - and celebrate - human behaviour.
Naturally with this background Lorna’s presentations are
noted for her ability to excite and inspire an audience. Lorna proves learning
is fun.
Please indicate your preferences of workshops by
choosing either No.1 or No. 2 workshop which run between
Presenters and Workshops
Workshop
1-Time
The Influence of Emotional Intelligence:
The focus of this workshop is to provide
some experiential exposure to the way that emotional intelligence influences
many aspects of our lives and to ascertain whether there are gender differences
in emotional intelligence and how this would potentially impact on our work
with clients.
Workshop 2 Time
Working with Men: Allan Rudner
Understanding the history of masculinity and cultural
prejudices about men is essential knowledge in counselling. This presentation
frames these ideas to expose the facts and fictions around male identity,
inviting counsellors to think freshly about the needs of men in both life and
counselling.
Our presenter is Mr Allan Rudner. Allan holds an MA in
Cultural Psychology as well as other mysterious training. Allan works in
private practice and is known for his work with Pathways to Manhood. He is also
a training Coordinator for Life Line Supervisor for Domestic Violence and
Assault phone line, and trainer for First Aide Suicide Intervention.
Workshop 3 Time
Couples and Personality Type: Mary
McGuiness
When you understand personality preferences,
you can more readily appreciate differences between you and people closest to
you in your life such as partners, children, and friends. In most areas of
life, when differences between yourself and another person bother you too much,
you can avoid the other person in some way. But when that person is a family
member or close friend, you have a lot of lose by walking away.
Knowledge of MBTI® type allows you to see those differences as
just those—different ways of seeing things. Instead of labeling
a person and putting value judgments on his or her behaviour, you can learn to
see your partner’s behaviour as reflecting personality type, not something
designed to offend you. Many couples even learn to see the differences in a
humorous light.
Religious organizations, as well as
independent counsellors, often use the MBTI instrument for pre-marital
counselling. This allows a new couple to identify areas of difference that may
cause conflict. The respect created by this awareness can go a long way in
weathering married life.
A knowledge of type preferences can
also help couples and families negotiate differences in approaches to
lifestyle, intimacy and affection, division of chores, managing money, and
other areas of potential conflict
Mary McGuiness is one of
Workshop 4 – Time
The XX XY Factor: Ted and Toni Heaton
An experiential mind challenging
session encompassing our core beliefs on what it means to be a man or a woman.
Is there really a difference? And, the karmic
implications of psychogenetics.
The presenters, Ted and Toni Heaton continue to learn and
explore their respective genders as a married couple as well as business
partners within their May to September relationship. Due to familial
experience, Ted & Toni have personal understanding
of difficulties of Transgenderism and Gay
& Lesbian Relationships.
Their highly interactive and thought-provoking presentation
style is a result of a collective 40 years of practical
experience in teaching, counselling and natural therapies.
Please forward the
registration form with your payment to:
NSWCA,
Riverwood, 2010,
or by direct debit to:
NSWCA.
Westpac Bank
BSB – 032188
Account No. 196856
You must state your name when paying by direct debit.
NSWCA Symposium Registration Form
Date:
Venue: Ryde/Eastwood Leagues Club
Cost: $145 Non Members
$125 Members
$100 Students
Theme: “Mars/Venus” Men’s & Women’s issues
in Counselling
Format: 10.00am
Keynote Speaker, Lorna Parker
- Brain Sense
1.
2. Allan
Rudner - Working with Men
3. Mary
McGuiness – Couples and Personality Type
4. Ted &
Toni Heaton - The
XX XY Factor
Name………………………………………………………….
Contact
Details………………………………………………..
If applicable NSWCA Membership No………… ACA Membership No.………
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PLEASE SELECT WORKSHOP AND PRESENTER
Workshop 1 & 2 -
Workshop 2 & 3 - Mary McGuiness ………. Ted & Toni Heaton ……….
Method of
payment:
NSWCA,
Or direct debit to
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BSB
Account no: 19 6856
Then email Powell21@zipworld.com.au
your payment confirmation
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4. Health Tips from Herbalist/Nutritionist Tammy Safi
Men’s Health ~ Heart Disease and Depression
I’d like to talk
about men’s health in the coming series starting with prevention and care of
cardiovascular disease a highly important topic in this day and age when 1 in 3
men die of cardiovascular disease… CVD can have an effect on erectile
dysfunction, quality of life (depression), energy levels, diabetes, blood
clots, headaches, anxiety the list goes on.
I see possibly 1
male for every 10 female patients in my clinic. The reason being men don’t like
to own up they are unwell. The condition drags they get sicker and they still
carry a brave face. However things left alone don’t always go away and if
digestion is the problem and one is taking endless amounts of antacids and is
bloated then there is no end to it. Firstly, one stops
absorbing their food, they become deficient in many important vitamins and
minerals and then anything can happen, from reflux to an ulcer, fatigued all
the time to depression.
Men are more likely
to eat foods high in fat, drink more alcohol and exercise less however once
they decide to do something about their health they do it full on. And that’s
the good news. Come on fellows its time you took on your health more seriously
and fixed the problem before it becomes too serious.
Simple easy
measures towards good health
never ever eat take away …home cooking is best
avoid saturated fats i.e. fried foods and animal
fat..
have meat free days and cook legumes(lentils
beans etc…) instead eat plenty of fibre everyday 5 pieces each of fresh fruit
and vegetables (fibre binds with the cholesterol and excretes it)
stop smoking
drink only socially and less amounts
take on your favourite exercise and do it daily
or every 2nd day for at least 45 minutes. Start slow then build it
up gradually.
Most important of
all decrease the stress in your life, take on a hobby you’ve always wanted to
do, meditate, have regular massage listen to relaxation your relaxation CD or
see your health practioner for more advise.
Drink plenty of
filtered/pure/preboiled water to flush those kidneys
daily add a slice of lemon to your drinking bottle to enhance liver function.
Good Health and
Recovery
Tammy Safi DBM,DNut,DRM
9709 4265
0418 245 449
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5. Wild Trivia
You can't stop browsing the Internet until
you've visited the page below. Just click on it and enjoy!
http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html
If any
body is game enough to try the following please let me know how it goes -
Lyndall
AN AMAZING BLACK PEPPER STORY
from
Once I was working alone in
wintertime in a church. I was pushing a duct together, and my hand slipped. The
raw edge of the metal cut my hand open.
Picture the cut you would need to
amputate a thumb - about three inches long and right to the bone at the joint.
Pressure wasn't working, there was no telephone, and it was about 10 degrees
outside. I had been dropped off there and had no idea where I was.
I remembered my mother telling me
that either black pepper or cobwebs would stop bleeding. I found some pepper in
the church kitchen, and after applying great pressure, I dumped about a
half-shaker of pepper directly into the gaping cut.
I pushed it shut again, put a
potholder over it, and secured it with some electrical tape.
The bleeding stopped immediately,
and in a matter of minutes there was no pain. After about 20 minutes I got
bored and went back to work. I finished out the day, but when I got home, my wife started screaming for me to rush to the
hospital.
When I got to the emergency room
there was more screaming. The doctor and nurses thought I was an idiot for
putting pepper in the cut and insisted that every bit be washed out. Of course,
as they fiddled with it, large amounts of blood began pouring out, and it hurt
like hell again.
Finally, my patience ran out, and I
held some gauze over the cut and left. I immediately went down to the
cafeteria, opened a bunch of those little pepper packages, poured the wound
full again, and drove myself home.
My wife complained that I was stupid
and unreasonable, but the entire unstitched, un-doctored, bone-deep- wound
healed without a scar.
I have used black pepper to heal
cuts ever since.
Interesting facts
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only
have about 10.
Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in
the letters mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded
history not to have a full moon.
If the population of
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci
invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but
our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with
only the left hand; lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men;
it only says there were three gifts.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that
The words 'racecar,'
'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right
to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language
which end in "dous" :tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that
have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and
"facetious."
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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6. Metaphor
This is a story about four people named - Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody
did it.
Somebody got angry about that,
because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody
wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody
blamed Somebody because Nobody
did what Anybody could have done.
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7. Martin Hunter
Taoists say the only thing that doesn’t change is change
itself. To some this statement will make intuitive sense and be enough in
itself. For some logicians however, it’s circularity
will offend and so I offer Chaos as a replacement.
Like Taoism, Chaos theory engages amongst many things, a
discussion around change. In Chaos theory an entity, say for instance you, is
seen to resist change.
With force of will this entity struggles to maintain the
integrity of it’s known and comfortable boundaries.
Resting in the peace of supposed predictability. Just as a man in a hammock at
dusk might lie, as all the while the mosquitoes buzz grows louder as they sense
their somulent prey.
According to the lore of Chaos it is inevitable that
boundaries and fences eventually fall away. In this vision where everything is
utterly interconnected, all things are mutually supportive. Therefore any
movement on either side of a boundary will cause a movement on both the other
side and the boundary.
So what’s this got to do with me you ask ?
At an individual level, one implication from this is the
suggestion that it takes energy to resist change. You may get better results
noticing the dimensions of the change at hand and working with them.
Further to this, at an individual level, it is possible to
achieve an overarching change in your whole life by focussing well on one part
of your life. For example a sad person who eats poorly, can become happier by
eating better, or hungrier when they are happier
Another implication relates to relationships. Where all is
interconnected, the action of one party will necessarily affect the other. This
means that each person in the relationship has complete power to change the
whole relationship by adjusting the way they act within it.
It is not logical within this thinking to accept the notion
“they did that to me”. Rather it is clearly seen that you are part of creating
the context in which their action took place.
At a community level this thinking implies the power and
perhaps a necessary opportunity for each individual to affect a large social
change.
Even as we strive for greater wealth or a better life
individually, the scope of our achievement is influenced by those surrounding
us. A rich man’s life is no better for his wealth when he needs to construct
razor wire fences to keep himself safe from those
without.
Our world both within and without, seems so in need of
change that creating positive change can seem an impossible task.
Fortunately in our chaotic and infinitely interconnected
experience together, change happens regardless of effort. A butterfly flapping it’s wings on the other side of the world creates an eddy of
air which can create a cyclone on the other side of the world.
Small actions can have dramatic outcomes. So relax and enjoy
the unfolding vista, and try to make your small actions affirmative ones in the
knowledge that everything you do has an effect elsewhere , which will
eventually come back to affect you.
Martin Hunter
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8.
One liners
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize
Borrow money from pessimists ~ they don't expect
it back
Half the people you know are below average
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name
42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot
A conscience is what hurts when all your other
parts feel so good
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad
memory
If you want the rainbow, you gotta
put up with the rain
All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my
hand
The early bird may get the worm, but the second
mouse gets the cheese.
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me
before we met
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
If everything seems to be going well, you have
obviously overlooked something
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
When everything is coming your way, you're in the
wrong lane
I intend to live forever ~ so far, so good
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into
jet engines
What happens if you get scared half to death
twice?
My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your
brakes, so I made your horn louder
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of
thinking
Experience
is something you don't get until just after you need it
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the
softness of the bread
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to
steal from many is research
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no
lifeguard
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll
have to catch up.
KIDS IN CHURCH
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A little boy was overheard praying:
"Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.
I'm having a real good time like I am."
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One particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive
us our trash baskets
as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."
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A Sunday school teacher asked her children, as they were on the way to
church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."
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Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother
in church. !
Finally, his big sister had had enough.
"You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."
"Why? Who's going to stop me?"
Angie pointed to the back of the church and said,
"See those two men standing by the door?
They're hushers."
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A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year-old son ran up
to him,
grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the
sand.
"Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.
"He died and went to Heaven," the Dad replied.
The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back
down?"
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A college class was told they had to write a short
story in as few words as possible. The short story had to contain the following
three things:
(1)
Religion
(2)
Sexuality
(3)
Mystery
There was only one A+ paper in the entire class.
Below is the A+ short story:
Good God,
I'm pregnant. I wonder who did it?
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A very elderly gentleman (mid nineties),
very well dressed, and hair well groomed, great
looking suit, flower in his lapel, smelling slightly of a good after
shave, presenting a well looked after
image, walks into an upscale cocktail lounge.
Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady, (mid eighties). The
gentleman walks over, sits along side of her, orders a drink, takes a sip,
turns to her and says, "So tell me, do I come here often?"
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An elderly gentleman had serious hearing
problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor, and the doctor was able
to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear
100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the
doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you
can hear again." The gentleman
replied, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the
conversations. I've changed my will 3
times!"
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9. Motivational
Shed
the Shells - Letting Go Of Limiting Beliefs and Negative Emotions
Did you
realize shrimp wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies? They have
been known to discard their shells as many as twenty-six times during a
lifetime. They shed their shells to accommodate their growing bodies.
Maybe we
can learn a lesson from the shrimp. Do we have some shells that need
discarding? It may be a good idea to examine our lives and shed a few shells occasionally.
The growing person is constantly shedding his or her shells.
The
pessimist is limited by doubts, confined by fears, and restricted by
uncertainties. Shed those! The optimist is freed by faith, stimulated by hope,
and encouraged by confidence. Grow these!
It's
time to shed our shells of envy, pride, anger and indifference, our shells of
selfishness and of narrow, confining self-interest. I believe what the world
needs is more people who are committed to their own growth, not just for
growth's sake, but so they can make a higher level contribution to society, a
bigger difference in the world
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12.
My personal comments
Hi,
Isn’t this a great time of year? Weather is not too hot, not too cold ~
just right. I have been really busy lately; we have changed my whole office
around so I am feeling like it is brand new. And you all know a change is as
good as a holiday.
Talking of holidays, we went away last week for a couple of days to see
an old friend who lives up near
He has also built a small suspended heated swimming pool (also glassed
in to overlook the valley) ~ I am looking forward to winter when we can sit in
the pool and look out over the valley when it snows.
Of course the highlight for me was the fact that he has been raising
three kangaroos, Vivian has been weened but still lives close to the cabin and
I am told she is carrying her own