THE STORY OF SHIVA

• Shivs is also known as bholenath for his child like disposition.
• He is also seen as love personified.
• While his wife as Shakti is out battling demons, he stays at home to take care of the children.
• And when Shakti dances , in tandav , that sends tremors around - after vanquishing the demons, Shiva lies quietly beneath her feet, in the hope of calming her by making her aware that if she continued , she would end up crushing him under her feet.
• Many of these stories indicate gender equity and the importance and beauty of loving togetherness. People invoke the blessings of Shiva for a happy and peaceful life.

Annette Moser-Wellman

Annette Moser-Wellman is the president of FireMark, an innovation consultancy that works with some of the world’s leading companies.Her expertise spans the range of strategy and vision planning to leadership and executive coaching. She is author of The Five Faces of Genius, Creative Thinking Styles to Succeed at work. Website: http://www.fivefacesofgenius.com/ •
www. capital-me.com Success Factors On the Curve

• The successful business leader must start thinking of his or her career as an upwardly sloping sine curve, perhaps as a function described as y=2x+3sin(x). This graph is a series of gently sloping up-and-down undulations with an overall trajectory upward.The graph of your career must be a series of gentle waves, with up representing accomplishments and down representing fallow or transition periods. This shift from the linear path to the sine curve is an important delineation and here’s why I make it.

• As business leaders, we must become more comfortable with risk and the attendant failure that goes with it. Because change will so fully characterize the market and our work, if we are not failing, we will not be risking, and if we are not risking,we will not be succeeding. Fewer and fewer companies will be able to claim“good to great status,” as large, stable companies that can stand the test of time.This is because technology will accelerate the axis of time and we will see competition accelerating as well.New business leaders must now manage the sine curve of his or her career, the multiple up-and-down undulations of success and failure.
• They must seek to point this sine curve in an upward trajectory, always learning from the past and positioning themselves for success in the next venture.
• The key is to optimize the amplitude of success: the good position, the new enterprise, the great idea. But when the downward transition comes – loss of revenue,layoffs, market shifts – be able to step back, wait and create the next opportunity.
• Dealing with Dips This ability to make the most of the downward wave requires comfort in what I call“The Dips,” which are the spaces between the successes. They are the negative troughs in the waves of the sine curve.They represent the transitions from one change to the next.
• Most business managers want to avoid the Dips as much as possible. But it is here that the best ideas and new things are born.
• When we have the ability to withstand the troughs and even expect and welcome them, we find the best new opportunities.We can especially learn this skill from the creative greats of history.
• Artists and scientist scan teach the business leader how to perform this new math of success –how to keep this sine curve undulating upward in the right direction. Artists, scientists and literary greats are experts at managing the crests and troughs of innovation.They build their careers around the ebb and flow of their creative energy.Here’s what they teach us about the time in the Dip.The Dip is a time to learn.
• Conventional wisdom says that most of us will have anew job every seven years. Given the pace of change ahead, we will most likely have a new job every four years. We can bemoan this lack of “job security”(which, by the way, never really existed),or we can revel in the fact that we can transfer our skills to a different area and learn something new.
• What Comes Down, Must Go Up The physicist Richard Feynman had his greatest breakthroughs early in his 20s.But he went on make many other contribution in physics using his fascination for other areas: music, mythology, even drumming. He was able to further his field by applying learning from other interests.
• The Dip is a time to create. When we are in transition, we re-evaluate our priorities and can make decisions on what is really best for us and what we really want to do.
• As passion for work increasingly becomes a requirement for success, we can tailor our work more closely to what we really love and enjoy.
• The great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy had a period in his life in which he felt so low that he could no longer write. But during this time he began to formulate his personal philosophy of nonviolence and wrote a book that highly influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s work.The
• Dip is a time to reflect. We cannot innovate when our conscious mind is overly active and managing too many demands. When we quiet down and listen to the new stimulus of the world around us, we begin to understand what the new opportunities are.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson would say that he denied all company so that he could follow his “whim.” When he would get even the slightest idea, he would lock himself away and listen to that inspiration.
• As a community of business leaders, we must get more comfortable with our Dips.In fact, we should consider the Dips others experience as badges of success.Because in the times ahead, if we don’t dip, we’ll slide. So maintain a sense of pride and enthusiasm for all that you have accomplished on your trajectory upward,even in your Dips. And you’ll be surprised to find that it’s the artist who can teach us the most about the new math of success.

15000 years ago, a giant flood turned Britain into an island.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL1863369920070718

A huge flood hundreds of thousands of years ago cut Britain off from the rest of Europe and turned it into an island, according to a new study that offers clues to how England was settled.

SKULLS CONFIRM WE AE ALL FROM AFRICA.

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN923672.html

An analysis of thousands of skulls shows modern humans originated from a single point in Africa and finally lays to rest the idea of multiple origins, British scientists said on Wednesday.
Most researchers agree that mankind spread out of Africa starting about 50,000 years ago, quickly establishing Stone Age cultures throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.

But a minority have argued, using skull data, that divergent populations evolved independently in different areas.
The genetic evidence has always strongly supported the single origin theory, and now results from a study of more than 6,000 skulls held around the world in academic collections supports this case.

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And in the end , its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years that counts.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ESTABLISHING A MEANING TO LIFE

• In these days of materialism, many have the means to live but hardly any meaning to live for.
• Even after securing for himself full financial security and abundant wealth, man continues to accumulate, driven by the fear of having to face boredom, in the absence of any abiding interests or serious hobbies.
• The very idea of facing a single moment of quietude or solitude is frightening for these souls, who know not what they want or need in life.
• In feverish frenzy, they are snared into various entanglements and activities.

• The true seeker of worthwhile living, however, however, establishes for himself a meaning to life and living, nurturing his cherished dreams and aspirations, while at the same time, stabilising his financial position for effective worldly living.
• The ancient Indian concept of Artha, presupposes the need also to set one's sight on sublime issues, in conformity with one's personality.
• The worldly person has to go about doing the needed work for discharging his financial and worldly duties to himself and others, while constantly dwelling within on his vision, dreams and goals ( lakshya ) which are close to his heart.
• One who adopts this approach, not merely secures for himself and those dependent on him, the needed financial security, but also is enabled thereafter to pursue his true interests. These would continually cheer him on, motivating him to high levels of accomplishment and fulfillment.Feelings of boredom, emptiness or inadequacy, would thus never affect him.
• In stages , and slowly, one should set for himself a course, even if pressures and commitments assail him. The prayer in the Upanishads, Tamso ma jyotirgmaya is very much suited here. This verily is the progress which enables one to discover a meaning and thus joy in life and living. Such a fortunate person is indeed, never, ever affected by what Wordsworth calls, " the dreary intercourse of daily life."

STOP CHASING YOUR THOUGHTS

• Society and its institutions , control You through fear and greed.
• These institutions believe that unless you are prodded by fear and greed , you cannot be effective, productive and valuable. But productive to whom ? Certainly not to your own self, but perhaps to the benefit of these institutions.
• Fear and greed make You seek the external world for fulfillment.You seek to act on your thoughts and words. But these can never be fulfilled. The same fears and greed reappears , no matter how many times you may have experienced them before.
• If nature provided within you a system that converts bread into blood, can it not take care of providing you with bread as well ?
• Nature does not trust you with anything that is critical to your living. That is why all your essential activities such as breathing, growing etc all happen without our involvement.
• Therefore stop acting on your thoughts. Stop looking for their meaning. Instead seek the source of your thoughts.For instance , if you feel hungry, ignore that thought. When your body feels that desperate hunger , it will by itself seek and procure the food to fulfill its needs.
• You are in Rajas, the mode of aggression , when you act on your thoughts. When you stop acting on your thoughts, you are in tamas. That is what you are afraid of. There is nothing to fear. You will stay in this state of inaction till your hatred against this state of restlessness and greed gets worked out. Once that happens, you will have come out of that tamasic state, purified.
• You do not move from tamas into rajas and then into satva, in sequence, as most people think.
• You do not , as you may think, move from inaction into aggression and then into peace.
• You start with Rajas, which is the state of your day to day activity, when you are in the state of doer ship, seeking to fulfill the meaning of your thoughts and words.
• When you stop seeking meaning, you will fall into inaction or tamas, for a brief period, till you start seeking the source of your thoughts and move into satva.

YOU WILL FEEL THE EFFECT OF INNER HEALING, AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THE UNIVERSE DOES TAKE CARE OF YOU.