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A few evenings ago, some friends and I decided to watch the latest Star Wars film, Return of the Sith. This film got me thinking about a concept that is key to much of the hypnotherapy that I do, and is an excellent example of how not to lead one’s life.
Much of what makes the Star Wars story so alluring is the puzzling change that occurs in Anakin Skywalker. How is it that a man can turn from supremely good to the embodiment of evil? We’re led to love Anakin the Jedi and hate the same man, only a few days later. It is both puzzling and troubling. What is even more puzzling (and perhaps troubling) is that, on the surface, it seems that Anakin’s love for Padm is what leads him, ultimately, to the dark side.
This is an excellent example of the way the Jung claims that the human shadow works. The shadow, according to Jung, is a huge portion of our personality that we disown. We disavow it, and lock it away. Once it is locked away, it becomes destructive. We can see this in many ways: a person who denies something about themselves turns to self-destructive behaviors such as excessive drinking, or even worse, becomes violent. It is commonly accepted that many anti-social behaviors have their roots in a person’s inner conflict.
Anakin’s inner conflict is severe. He lives like a Jedi which is, more or less, a monastic life. So many of the other Jedi do this very well and Anakin fails. He fails the moment he starts to let his shadow express itself. What has been locked up for so long has grown vicious, and now consumes and destroys him. The image of Anakin locked into the hood of Darth Vader shows that he has really become consumed; he shadow has gotten loose; all that is good about him has been destroyed.
There is a lesson to be learned from this; and it’s a lesson that goes back thousands of years. There are parts of us that we, or society, don’t like. We have instincts, desires and urges that are, in some ways, unacceptable. It is only natural that we should try to repress them by doing so we can be accepted by those around us. Unfortunately, when we oppress what we don’t like about ourselves, it causes problems. It is the root of many neuroses and other problems in our lives.
The solution to this problem seems simple and is a monumental task: we must strive to make ourselves whole. That means, when we feel an urge to do something unacceptable, we must step back and examine that urge. We have to figure out what is at the root of that urge, and we have to integrate it into our lives in a positive way. We must understand that we are good and that applies to everything about us. Something that has been shoved aside and allowed to become bitter and vicious is simply a natural part of us gone bad, and it is incumbent upon us to address that. In order to live good, healthy and happy lives, we have to embrace our dark side.
If Anakin Skywalker (and the Jedi) were to embrace the Dark Side in a healthy way, they would be more powerful than ever. They would feel emotions,love, anger, fear, and hate and all of those emotions would be in proper perspective. Additionally, they would have access to the power that all of these emotions affords their adversaries, the Sith. Keeping the ill effects of some human emotions at bay does not help the Jedi at all; it just leads to dramatic outbursts of those same emotions. The lesson here is simple and very important: embrace your dark side in a healthy way, and you will be happier and more powerful.
In the Philippines, one of the most important facets of tradition that bring families together is food. It is a customary practice for Filipinos anywhere in the world to celebrate all kinds of occasions with food, be it a momentous welcoming of a new born baby or an unfortunate loss of a loved one. Any occasion for that matter is always observed with serving of even the simplest Filipino foods, that a humble homemaker is most glad to offer to all visitors, strangers even, a gesture that is proudly Filipino which is true and genuine hospitality.
For Pinoy balikbayans or homecoming Filipinos, aside from the excitement of being in the company of family and friends once again, what they look forward to the most are the traditional Filipino or Pinoy foods which they missed and have been longing to eat while away in a foreign land. Of course by going online via Pinoy recipes online, they are also able to cook these Filipino dishes by themselves while in a foreign land. But indulging on these Filipino foods while in abroad would not be as satisfying and fulfilling than when they gulp them down in their own homeland. Especially in the provinces, the thrill of gobbling up all these Pinoy meals and delicacies with people they love can be felt during picnics and when eaten ala boodle fight. During boodle fights, long tables are prepared where the hot steamed rice, viands, usually consisting of pancit, chicken and pork adobo, grilled tilapia and pork chops, and broiled mussels are spread on top of banana leaves and are eaten by everyone with bare hands. This outdoor food experience is patterned after a military style of eating and is best enjoyed by everyone especially during the summer months of the year when fruits like the famous Philippine mangoes, watermelons and pineapples are ready for picking and harvesting.
Philippine recipes and Pinoy cuisine are characterized by a diverse influence of neighboring Asian countries like China, India and Japan as well as the countries from the West and Europe like the US, Britain, Mexico and Spain. These foreigners reached Philippine shores either by reason of trade and commerce or by colonization. Every Philippine food has its own character but almost always, there is an undeniable presence of another countrys cuisine that smudges every here and there in the best Filipino food. Like in the case of home cooked or lutong bahay recipes of mechado, picadillo and afritada, these are all Mexican and Spanish in nature. It is no joke to be colonized by Spain for three hundred years, hence, the influence in Pinoy cooking is a matter that cannot be avoided in any way. The Chinese came to the Philippines for reason of commerce long even before the Spaniards came ashore. From them, Filipinos learned cooking pancit, shanghai rolls, dumplings and such delis like hopia and tikoy.
The list can be endless as to what kinds of foods Filipinos anywhere enjoy the best. For anyone who wishes to learn about these lutong Pinoy recipes, one just needs to explore using the internet via online Philippine recipes. Websites are easily accessible and anyone who is interested in dipping his or her hands at cooking a lutong Pinoy menu or easy Filipino recipes will find that cooking them is not at all complicated. Instructions are simple and easy to understand while ingredients are most commonly found at Oriental stores if one is based in a country other than the Philippines. Otherwise, local markets proliferate with fresh seafood, meats, fruits and veggies that are all part of the Philippine cooking tradition.
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Duplication is the key to grow your home-based business in network marketing.
Duplicate your network
Network marketing is a home-based business where as the name implies, you can work at the comfort of your own home. Actually you are your own boss and employee of your organisation but you are not going any further than that without building your network.
So you need your down-line to help you to expand and bring in more business builders and customers. It is much productive to have 1000 people working for you for one hour a day each than you putting in one hour yourself.
When you recruit John, John became your down-line. When John signed up Mary and Mary signed up Peter, all these people Mary and Peter will also be your down-line.
From the above, you can see the power of duplicating your efforts and each one below you who will be duplicating their efforts to sign up more people to their down-line.
Expand exponentially
Let see how a simple example how duplication can helps to grow your network exponentially:
First you signed up 2 recruits as your first layer. Then they duplicate their effort and each of your first layer recruits 2 members each to bring your second layer to 4 members.
Then the 4 members in the second layers will recruit 2 members each, bringing your third layers to 8 members.
Then the duplication continues, and each of the 8 members in the third layers will bring in each 2 new members, bringing in a total of 16 members as your fourth layer.
In a matter of a week or so depending how hard you train your down-line, you have produced 30 members in just 4 layers. Remember that the person you signed up and those your down-line have signed up are all your down-line.
Double your efforts
Can you imagine if you would double your effort and guide and help all your down-line to double their effort too and you would have hundreds and even thousands when you go to seventh or tenth layers down?
Disregard what is your status in the organisation, you will be compensated from the purchases of your customers you recruits and that of your down-line own purchases and that of their recruit’s purchases and those of their customers’ purchases, and not only solely on the basis of how many recruits you have got.
Clone yourself
To duplicate your marketing effort is like cloning yourself. In order to clone yourself, you must pass on your skill and knowledge of prospecting to your down-line.
Earn residual income
If your down-line can duplicate everything you have learned and are doing everything like you to bring in business builders and customers, you have created a win-win situation. In this case, your down-line will earn tremendous residual income from repeated customers’ purchases. Your down-line success is also your success to earn the residual income of your entire organisation.
Beginning a home based business is speedily catching up and in fact every other individual is wishing to set up a home based business. There are opportunities both to work locally off-line and internationally online. The principal advantage of a home business is that it provides juicy means to earn revenue from the comforts of ones home. So if you are ready to begin a home business then given below are a few home based business choices to begin with :-
1. Ebay.com – A nice recognized way to get money from home is by marketing and selling items on eBay. You could even promote products you have lying around the house that you are no longer using, attire your family members do not use any more, or, if you are crafty, you can sell things you have prepared yourself. Many A individuals might not be as computer literate as you are or may be they simply do not have time to make a list of their own auction goods. So you can present up your helps as an auction specialist in exchange for a small fee and a proportion of each sale, you can get images of goods other people require to list for sale on Ebay.com, post the auctions and pay attention of transporting the goods to the buyer.
2. Freelancing – If you are from an office-work background, you can get work on the Internet as a virtual helper. The nature of work can be varying, including responding to emails, taking phone calls, maintaining web sites, and many more. If you are really technical at making web sites, there is certainly a large marketplace for that as well as for graphic design. A copywriter (also known as ghostwriter) can earn income online by penning unique articles, sales letters, advertising copy or squezee page and more for online Promoters. Freelancing for newspapers and magazine publishers is also a choice for those who relish penning.
3. Event Manager – If you are someone who likes to work off-line, there are still lots of possibilities. For newcomers, you can start a home-based childcare. You can start a home business as a paid labor organizer and earn to clean out other peoples cupboards, and stores, etc. An option for those who love to control things, would be to coordinate events. These can be functions for masses, such as birthday parties and marriage ceremonies or you can organize functions for businesses such as meetings, lunch parties, and even business exhibitions.
4. Sales – Scores of people have turned to salesmanship to work from home. It is no more a choice ‘tween dishwares or cosmetics companies but nowadays you could pick out to market candles, costume, show pieces, dolls, artificial jewellery and etc. Various parties provide you to sell these items online and also in the conventional ways.
The potential of working at home are infinite. Keep searching several paths, ask lots of questions, and you would for certain find different ways to earn money from home. There are numerous options to convert your skill-sets into different paths to make money online from home. Once you fix on something to do, get out there, promote yourself and your services so that everybody knows that you are available for renting. Always remember that if you do not look for work then you surely would not find any work at all.