NOVEMBER 2012 Happy Thanksgiving

˚ I AM joy of clarity, being & doing  

Posted on 15/11/2012. Last edited on 21/11/2024.

Please share music, quotes and related things about giving thanks

Thanksgiving Thursday in November 22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
Practice Appreciation

During November as you give thanks, remember to generate and sustain a feeling of appreciation, which will help you increase your compassion for others and enhance your own health and well-being.

Our studies show a direct connection between genuine appreciation for the people around you, yourself, a pet or something else important to you and smooth, balanced heart rhythms. Like other qualities of the heart, appreciation is an emotion we actually experience in our hearts, so when we are outwardly appreciative of others, we’re making a deep heart connection with them as well. written by Sara Childre
President, Institute of HeartMath

• Thanksgiving in US next week…Here is Thanksgiving song #1
• Thanksgiving Song #2 celtic with beautiful scenery
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Thanksgiving is such a lovely tradition that you have .

I have been looking for something to share with you all as a thankyou and hope you like this

Namaste

I am so grateful and thankful for this wonderful circle of friends ,for all your wisdom,care,understanding,compassion,and kindness .

Happy thanksgiving

love flowergirl

˚ I AM joy of clarity, being & doing  

Posted on 16/11/2012.

In response to flowergirl’s post:
This video is ….beautiful… respect… appreciation…. love… and peace. Just like you…Thank you for sharing such a valuable way of being and way to start the day….a way to live. love selfcare enthusiast

I copied this picture and information from a book I have called American Folklore and Legend by Reader’s Digest.

To most Americans the first Thanksgiving is a “legendary” and real event, much as it is depicted in this modern painting: a decorous gathering of Pilgrims and their Indian friends meeting to offer thanks for God’s bounty. Historically except for a brief grace, God was not mentioned. Instead, the Pilgrims hailed their first harvest in 1621 with a three-day banquet spiced with tests of skill and strength.

The settlers asked their Indian ally Chief Massasoit to dine with them and were momentarily staggered when he arrived accompanied by 90 uninvited, ravenous warriors: no tribal women attended. The result was not a holiday for Plymouth’s five women; they had to feed 145 diners.

The Pilgrims could not have been so elegantly dressed as they are in this romanticized view. The 10 months of hardship that killed half their original party must have taken their toll of their clothing too. The log cabin is also an anachronism. Pilgrim homes were fashioned of hewn planks and had wooden shutters, not leaded panes.

Revelers dined on venison and wild fowl, eel, shellfish, lobster, corn, dried fruit, and probably turkey – all washed down with homemade wine. Two traditional treats were absent: cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Except for knives, there were no utensils. One ate with one’s fingers from wooden trenchers or scooped up food with crude clamshell spoons.

We all have so much to be thankful for .

“If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, your wallet, and some spare change you are among the top 8% of the wordl’s wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation vou are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering.

If you can read this message you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read it at all”