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Marriage and becoming a father are two of the most important Rites of Passage in a man's life. Unfortunately, our society no longer recognizes them as such, nor do the elder men prepare, counsel, and train the younger men to succeed in these endeavors. As a result, good men and women enter marriage with false expectations and misconceptions about how to create a successful marriage and a meaningful life.There is hope! If you are struggling & losing faith in your marriage, don't quit. You can learn and master the principles to be successful, end the conflict, save your marriage, and restore your family. If you are not married, you can prepare yourself to enjoy the best that a lifelong marriage can bring. You can lead your family to thrive providing your children a secure and loving home. At the end of the day, it all comes down to your ability to lead yourself and then your ability to lead your family based on your actions. The direction of your leadership comes from the foundation of your life, your purpose. Your purpose will determine the qualities of character that you must develop. You must consciously choose and master the attitude necessary to sustain the self-discipline to navigate the storms of life so that you can serve your purpose. If you remain focused on these four attributes of your life and firmly rooted in your values, you will create an amazing legacy for yourself, your wife, your children, and your community. Truly, practical guidance for real success!

Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume IV: What Would Be Good to Continue Learning from Indigenous Peoples about the Environment and Education opens showing the importance of making an Indigenous approach to the world's complex environmental crises. Narrowly focused Western science and culture have made great advances, enabling people to live longer and better. But failing to consider broad and long-term impacts of actions has brought the Earth to the threshold of environmental catastrophes. Human-influenced climate change is the most pressing, but pollution, overuse of resources and overpopulation are all involved.Indigenous decisionmakers would have avoided this crisis by noting that everything is part of an interrelated whole. Western culture and science, is moving in this direction, but needs to further integrate Native approaches, considering side effects of actions over time before acting. As situations change and the future is unpredictable, policy must be reviewed regularly. For example, new chemicals should not be approved for use before extensive investigation of their safety, with ongoing research on the effects of their use for updating their regulation.Western culture and science, have underestimated differences in locations and people, assuming that what works well for one will work for another. A farmer in Brazil, who purchased a harvester that functioned perfectly in Iowa almost lost his crop when it would not work on his Brazilian farm. Studies of the efficacy of a drug in one demographic segment often do not indicate its efficacy or side effects in another group. The Native notion of difference of place needs more attention.Understanding diversity also needs to be applied in education, adjusting for different learning styles and rates of individuals and cultures. U.S. education has often functioned poorly, but schools at all levels have done very well by taking an Indigenous approach, seeing education as providing guidance and protection in facilitating unique creative whole individuals' learning who they are, as responsible community members, through participating in a variety of positive experiences. The private coed Putney School, an example of Indian-influenced John Dewey's progressive education, is strong on academics, especially in the arts. It involves students in problem-solving and seeing all sides of issues in small classes with numerous individual projects. Students have many leadership opportunities, including serving with faculty and staff on the community council and school committees. They discuss community issues in assemblies and participate in running the school and its farm through work that may include tasks in community service organizations. With concern for the environment, Putney also offers experience in nature.East Harlem public schools, in one of the poorest communities in the U.S., went from the lowest to the highest educational achievement ratings for many years by moving to a variety of small programs for students with different needs. Cross-culturally, Nueva Escuela schools in rural Colombia, based on research on what works, with student team research and community involvement, outperformed urban schools. In higher education, students excelled when engaged with the subject matter in dialogue, simulation, guided imagination and community involvement.In conclusion, the four volumes of Honoring the Circle show the extensive ongoing learning of the West from Indians and the increasing advantage of living according to Indigenous values, as doing so comes more to the fore, as exemplified by the U.S. progressive movement, accompanied by an increase in Native voices, with a surge in Indians elected to office.

Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume I: The Impact of American Indians on Western Politics and Society to 1800 illuminates the tremendous impact American Indians have had on political, economic and social ideas, institutions and ways since first contact with Europeans. Recognizing that when people of different cultures interact, cultural exchange occurs, Volume I analyzes how traditional inclusive, participatory and mutually supportive American Indian societies functioned well, enabling their strong influence on the West.At contact Indians, wishing good neighbors, worked closely with early European settlers to educate them in Native ways. To varying degrees this Indianized the Europeans, leading to appreciation of democracy and diversity, in an Indianized American culture. Cultural impact is revealed in early American literature. It is distinct from Europe's, by its inclusion of the Indian.Native Americans were well respected in the English colonies, which applied Indian ways of council in town meetings and elected assemblies. By the time of the American Revolution, Indian symbols were in wide use in the colonies. Most European Americans identified as being a mix of the European and the Indian. The Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks in the Boston Tea Party out of respect and identification with Native ways.Important leaders such as Roger Williams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine interacted regularly with Indians. Moved by Native views of fundamental rights, political participation and federalism, they adopted such principles in American political institutions as in the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution and state constitutions. Indian-style respectful discourse was widely adopted, including in procedures of the US Congress, contrasting with the rowdiness of Britain's Parliament.In Europe, from first contact, a flood of reports was received from the Americas with great interest on how Indigenous Americans "had no kings" or property. While among Europeans there was a mix of positive and negative views of Natives of "the New World," reports were overwhelmingly positive about Indians' freedom and good character.These reports had great impact on European thinkers. Beginning with Thomas More's Utopia, in 1519, numerous writers, including Montaigne and Voltaire, used Indian characters and imagined Indian societies to critique European societies and politics.Every major Western political philosophical tradition has been greatly affected by contact with Native Americans. Thomas Hobbes, who had negative views of Indians, began one of the two major shifts in mainstream Western thought resulting from interaction with Indians. Previously, nature had been seen as the end to which something aspired. Beginning with Hobbes, nature became seen as the origin from which things arose, with Indians living in, or near, a "state of nature." The second Indian-influenced shift came with John Locke. For the first time in Europe, he expressed the idea that rights were inalienable. Locke was greatly influenced by Indian ways, though his reaction to those ways sometimes involved agreeing with them, sometimes opposing them, and sometimes inspiring new trains of thought. His Indian-influenced ideas, like those of others in Europe, often reverberated to great effect in America.The ideas of Rousseau, more Indian-influenced than Locke, carried Native influence to the French Revolution and New Deal Liberalism. Socialist and anarchist thinkers' views were greatly affected by Indian influences transmitted through such writers.Honoring the Circle recognizes that Indian-inspired perspectives are one of many organic chains of interacting ideas--absorbed, reformulated and passed on by creative individuals interacting in interweaving cultures.

This book is a practical just-in-time resource for family caregivers. It helps them sustain themselves by reaching out for the love and support they and their loved ones need. Any single topic can become a doorway towards lightening their load. Besides the caregivers themselves, this book is also a valuable resource for friends, neighbors, professional colleagues, fellow congregants and others who are concerned that these caregivers are at risk of burning out but haven't yet found a way to help them. As the author says, "friends don't let friends burn out any more than friends let friends drive drunk." With this book in hand, they can reach out to the caregiver, begin a conversation about how they are doing and, as appropriate, offer to help them use it.Reach In, Part One of the book, coaches them to get clear about what they need and to take stock of their personal strengths and resources. It also coaches them to see if, like most people, they have some resistance to reaching out and accepting help from people who care about them. He playfully calls this resistance "RDD: Receiving Deficit Disorder" and coaches caregivers to take small steps to see what it feels like to open up to receiving loving help. Often their "RDD" is due to their legitimate concern that accepting help will require them to sacrifice their family's privacy. The author shows them how to set and communicate their boundaries ("their privacy settings") so this will no longer be an issue for them. Reach Out, Part Two, coaches them in finding the best ways for them to reach out, including using the new caresites i.e. free websites for them to use in communicating with people who care about them. Resources For Reaching Out, the third section, provides resources they can use to help sustain them in providing care for their loved one.This book is endorsed by a wide range of respected experts in the fields of caregiving, social work, spirituality and medicine. It is also highly recommended by the leaders of the major online caring communities (Caring Bridge and Lotsa Helping Hands), which the author terms "caresites," who also recommend its use by professionals: social workers, therapists, nurses, healthcare chaplains, physicians and others. Mr. August is an award-winning healthcare innovator (inventor of Bedscapes(R)), life coach and keynote presenter. He was a family caregiver for his own parents and mother-in-law. In this book, he draws on what he learned from his own caregiving experiences, from his life coaching clients and research interviews he conducted with family caregivers who have been especially effective in reaching out for what they and their loved ones need. He presented the key concepts and tools in this book to caregivers of family members who are paralyzed, in a two-year national speaking tour for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's Caregiver Day Program.

In Service to Love offers a pathway for shifting your awareness from the de-stabilizing chaos of the external world to access the rich inner realm that is your authentic nature. When it is time for you to discover your own purpose and truth, In Service to Love offers a multidimensional body of work that elevates your conscious awareness, catalyzing transformation, and enlightenment, opening the door to create your best life possible. The In Service to Love series creates the bridge from living life as a human being having a spiritual experience to a spiritual being having a human experience. When you connect consciously to your own divine nature available now, living is informed by the voice, wisdom, innovation, and clarity of your soul.Enlightenment, once viewed as unattainable for most, is presented as a natural evolutionary step available now for those that seek living a life where human nature is integrated with the wisdom and innovative capacity of divine nature. With Darlene Green as modern-day scribe, the contemporary guidance of Masters that comprise the Council of Light is relayed through high frequency messages, principles, exercises, and palpable presence of Love.In Service to Love is an extensive body of work conveyed in three books: In Service to Love Book 1: Love RememberedIn Service to Love Book 2: Love ElevatedIn Service to Love Book 3: Love NowThe rapidly shifting world we live in calls for our best. Rather than looking outside for answers, In Service to Love will gently and consistently direct attention to your inner knowing, developing an adeptness at reaching beyond perceived limitations to the wisdom that is only yours. Informed by essence, we live from our wholeness."You experience the evolution of this work with me as I sit with the Council of Light daily for one year and one day. You too, as reader, engage the messages of the Council of Light and are met where you are at in your process of expanding conscious awareness. - Darlene Green "In Service to Love addresses an imbalance in life experience. The collective consciousness that is pervasive is one that represents old ways of being. Much of the pain within the physical experience reflects the separation that exists in consciousness between who you are, your perceptions, and how you live. You are on the precipice of a new world. One that is in alignment with who you are as a divine expression of God.The purpose of our divine collaboration is to offer a new way of being that is in alignment with your innate divine expression and allows you to be in the physical experience in a way that is seamless. Meaning that you access all of you, beyond limitations, and live a life that is heart centered, and soul centered. Then, from the stance of your divine nature you hold the light and Love that is you and bring your gifts and light to the world to be the unique expression of Love that you are. - The Council of LightNaturally clairaudient, clairvoyant and clairsentient, Darlene has followed the direction of her heart in pursuit of the sacred in life. She has known of her Council from an early age. After many years of spiritual study and practice, it was with profound events December of 2017 that Darlene was invited by the Council of Light to sit with them daily as scribe, student and member of the Council in creating the body of work that is In Service to Love.The Council of Light is comprised of many Masters in light including Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Melchizadek, Archangel Gabriel, Archangel Michael, St. Germain, Metatron, the Hathors and Thoth as Patron of the Scribe. All the Masters speak from the potent perspective of Love, inviting one to turn within and follow inner guidance to divine truth.

Everyone wants to live a long, productive life and be as vibrant and healthy in the process as possible. Yet sometimes it's hard to know how to construct a wellbeing plan that provides for these goals on a day-to-day basis. This elegant guidebook for awakened holistic living distills the basics and offers up practical solutions for busy people who yearn for lasting results. Stories, first person memoir journaling, meditations and ritual take the reader around the Wheel of the Year and through four inspiring seasonal themes: Renew (Spring), Energize (Summer), Balance (Autumn), and Contemplate (Winter).This book shows you - step by step - how simple yoga and breathing exercises, herbal healing, aromatherapy, delicious plant-based food recipes, and soothing beauty rituals ca be essential components for creating deep transformation.Author Randi Ragan makes connections between everyday habits and a life filled with vitality, fearlessness, wise purpose, compassionate relationships, and spiritual sustenance for any age or stage of life.