GOD is Smiling on Our “Veil of Ignorance”

Posted on February 22, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the Desk of Shenazz Nadirshah, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

Since last couple of calamities I’ve been reading some tweets & messages that say:
“Why do people pray to the same GOD who does all this?” Seeing these kind of tweets & updates everyday made me think, that there are so many of us who get stronger with adversities, and so many more who stop believing in the Higher Power after or during adversities.

Thinking back, I thanked GOD that in happiness HE made me enjoy and I thank HIM that in the “ dips in life”  HE held my sanity & kept my faith in HIM undeterred and unconditional. I might have not known when I would be out of a certain situation, but always knew for sure that “I will be out of it” and through that, my connection with HIM kept getting stronger with each “dip” in life!!! Continue reading →

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A Time for Love

Posted on February 20, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the Desk of Ronelle Roode, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

It’s February, ah yes, the month of celebrating love and romance. Hearts, chocolate, bundles of roses – this is the month where reminders for the idea of lasting relationships abound.

What is this thing? This often elusive thing called love? And why is it so intoxicating and such a desired state of being?

These are comments borrowed from Wikipedia, about the topic of love:

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”.

In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to interpersonal attraction (“I love my partner”).

I just love these descriptions about love – hmmm – did I really just say that? I did, in my effort to demonstrate how easily we use the word love. I love my car……I love this ice cream……..I love that house – ah yes, love is freely tossed into conversation – and that’s okay.  At least to me…..I’d rather hear positives than negatives in any conversational phrases.
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FUN and MILAGROS a.k.a. Miracles

Posted on February 17, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the desk of Clarisa Mompremier, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

Let’s get the party started! Why are we wasting away bored with Life? We are not getting any younger, and life is just slipping away. I am here to remind you, about an old friend called FUN.

Remember when you were a kid and all you knew was how to have fun? Then you grew and you replaced fun with jobs, relationships, responsibilities, mortgages, and forgot that you can have your cream filled life and eat it too.

I have had the privilege for the last three years to work in a school. I have spend hours observing kids having fun, and feel blessed to have learned about fun from the experts. One of my favorite experiences is watching kids run at recess time. When kids run, their limbs fling around, and most of them run so fast they eventually take a wipe out from running too fast. But they don’t seem to care about falling; they get up and start running again. I can’t help but feel inspired by their care free and fear-less spirit. I have even incorporated that image in some of my meditations. (I thought that doing it for “real” wouldn’t work the same in my thirties)
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Working to Heal after Trauma

Posted on February 15, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the Desk of Ming & Candy from Reiki Fur Babies, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

Mom let us know a little about Spunky. It sounds like he has gone through a lot in his life! Mom wrote:

He definitely is hungry for attention, he is not very good at the potty training, barks at almost every noise and the only time he is really calm and quiet is when he can be in my room under the covers in bed right next to me. He has some issues I love him.

We could tell that Spunky was quite anxious before the session. It’s not often that a
fur baby hesitates with the healing energy.
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Let’s Get Naked for Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 13, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the desk of Lisa McCourt, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

Not that kind of naked. Okay, maybe that kind, too. But Valentine month is also a perfect excuse to get emotionally naked with everyone you love. Most of us have a number of comfortable, pleasant relationships that suit us but do nothing to deeply nurture us. Emotional transparency is the key to upgrading those relationships to the level of juicy, juicy joy!

The fact is: you are a tribal creature by nature of your humanness, and the more deeply you can connect with your fellow humans, the more you’ll thrive. Our society doesn’t foster transparency—quite the opposite. We’re taught from a very early age to put our “best face forward” and to hide or deny any traits we fear will make us less attractive to others. We’re taught that our success in life depends upon the image we project and manage to uphold. How often have you been told “you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression?” or “image is everything”? My friend who works in sales for a large publishing company likes to quip, “Anybody who says you can’t judge a book by its cover never tried to sell one.”  The cover is all we judge by! And all of us want us our covers to be the shiniest, most impressive covers we can manage to project. Continue reading →

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How Twitter Generates Revenue

Posted on February 10, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the desk of Elinor Stutz, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

Are you one of the many believing Twitter is a great waste of time?”

Twitter happens to be my all-time favorite business tool.  In addition to having made many wonderful friends on Twitter, due to the visibility there, I was able to attract incredible opportunities that otherwise would not have been offered.

Whichever medium you use, it is well worth the time to learn the success strategies that quickly enable the building of relationships that will ultimately lead to business. Upon incorporating tweeting into your daily branding effort, you become very noticeable. However, it is the correct usage of Tweeting that makes the difference.   My traditional relationship building and selling techniques translate well online and I share some of these with you today.
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Lets Set Boundaries

Posted on February 8, 2012 by swat_blog_admin

From the desk of Renee Vos de Wael, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
~ Muhammad Ali

Spending a lot of time out of my own home and meeting up with friends did point out to me that it is important to have healthy boundaries. So, that we don’t lose energy without noticing. This can happen so easily, that at the end of the day we wonder why we are so tired. What are the questions we’re willing to answer to and what is consider private? What are the activities we’ll like to join or let them pass by. What is important to us, are there any rules we can use to make decisions like this? Looking around the table I notice friends that where very happy to see one another again after a year. It was also noticeable that some of them were very tired and really deep down would have loved a day at home. It is all about that balance and finding your own boundaries, because if you wait to long to set them up. You are walked over by every one you meet and loved ones you know. It is true there are moment that you have to go and be involved with friends and family. But if we look at the moments that this applies to, then we also know those moments are only a few. Continue reading →

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