Are you in a state of Wellness and Self-fulfilment?

If not, get there! Wellness is the physical, mental, and emotional health, leading to a healthy way of living. Too often our goals are taken up with competitive ones, we are in a race to beat someone else or to have something that someone else doesn’t have. What all these boils down too, is what the other person is doing. A better way to go would be to simply ignore the competitiveness and set your own goal of achieving something good for somebody else.

A good example I came across in my Weekend Empathy Tweets is where a group of students did an emotional farewell for an elderly lady who would wave to them every morning, rain, hail or shine wishing them a happy start to the day. The video went viral and so did their social media profiles, you can see the tweet here .

Just after my last blog, I attended the STOP ADANI coal mine rally, Carmichael coal mine is a massive mine and a horrible Climate Change Timebomb proposed for Queensland with little job prospects as most jobs are automated and clearly damaging for the environment, the only benefit is to it owners who capitalise on the monopoly market of energy. As I am typing this blog Australia has voted to keep is current prime minister which means the mine will eventually most likely go ahead. Regardless of any setbacks, it’s important to realise they are only setbacks and you should always support solutions that improve the wellness of our lives and protest the activities that don’t. You can see my amazing experiences at the STOP ADANI RALLY here.

On a more positive note solutions are found everyday that help us achieve wellness if not for ourselves but for others in our community, such as the Zero emissions tour boat for the Niagara Falls click here (scroll down). Solutions and empathy is everywhere, so make wellness and empathy your new life goal.

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Changed minds equals a changed economy.

Two extraordinary people have captured my attention since last update, the amazing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on defence of The Green New Deal and of course Julian Assange who despite his political arrest, his fight continues.

I will never forget Collateral Murder(click here), this was an undeniable turning point in our western culture, we could see first hand the crimes our western culture commits and of course like most adults we don’t assume there is one great power except that of the people, this is Julian’s or Wikileaks message , plain and simple. Nobody is above the law or above fair criticism and there is no such thing as classified information, keeping secrets from humans is generally impossible.

Most opponents of progressive thinking or general common sense with empathy and without issue always use the economy or money as an excuse to defend lack of action, no greater example of this than with climate change, it’s in our economic interest to transition to renewables so our economy can prosper with smarter technology that creates opportunities within itself as opposed to simply holding onto old money ways because that’s the comfort zone your used to, as an adult you must accept things change with out political tantrum and if it’s the right path, you walk it.

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Human Rights and Human Solutions

Since last update, I have been using the Human rights hashtag quite frequently for everything from disability rights, a royal commission into the mistreatment and neglect of the disabled care centres in Australia to the recent arrest of Chelsea Manning for refusing to give evidence regarding wikileaks in a unopen arena.

Greed and ignorance always leads to corruption and ill-treatment of the vulnerable, however there is a good saying “You don’t win by fighting those you hate but by saving those you care about”. A good example is how Microsoft is using AI(artificial Intelligence) to map forests, all their vegetation, insects, animals in order to preserve the forest and accurately record its DNA structure if you like, this will be helpful when Climate Change kicks in, you can see the video on Empathy TV, another good example is by sharing the good news as well as the bad on your social media account, everything from Amnesty Petitions through to climate change events or emailing your an MP on your objection to oil drilling in an ecosystem such as the Great Australian Bight.

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Truth and Empathy – Do we really need to choose?

Recently I attended my first Invasion Day Rally, this a rally protesting against the colonisation of Australia and how sovereignty was never ceded. Without absence of a treaty it is improper to celebrate Australia Day on the day the first fleet arrived. It was an emotional day, especially hearing the heartbreaking experiences of discrimination from indigenous people such as the mother of Grant Ross who was shot 5 times unarmed https://twitter.com/Ljb2Liam/status/1089016149293985792

However nothing quite surprised me more than a couple of days later when I came across as to what can only be described in my firm opinion as vitriolic. Twitter was trending a panel discussion aired by Studio 10 where a conflict occurred between Yumi Styles and Kerrie Anne Kennerley. When I viewed the video, to summarise, Kerrie Anne was making a comment that the people who marched on Invasion Day have not gone out to the bush to see first hand the abuse that indigenous communities suffer and that somehow these people who marched are ignorant in some way or possibly even lazy. I am completely at a loss as to how whether or not protest marchers have been bush or have witnessed atrocities first hand is relevant to the issue, if somebody has enough empathy to take time out of their day to walk a good few kilometers in the hot boiling sun after they have been working very hard all week for an issue that I would imagine is close to the heart of every Australian, I’m sure their heart is in the right place, but most of all, why do we have to choose between TRUTH(Sovereignty was never ceded) and EMPATHY(Objecting to the abuse that indigenous communities suffer) as I tweeted, can’t we do both https://twitter.com/Ljb2Liam/status/1090093716675584002 I for one will not be choosing, I will be doing both and walking with progress as opposed to generating a false argument that borders on stupidity, presumably for ratings, especially on an issue as sensitive as this where progressive minds who can empathize are needed, not certain members of our society who have time to watch morning talk shows and shout socially lazy comments from armchair to TV. I tweeted a response to Yumi and Nova Peris who like me was also disgusted click here https://twitter.com/Ljb2Liam/status/1089776895644712960

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Are you ready to give this season?

Giving is the highest form of empathy, an activity that is one on one, it’s all about the receiver but also the giver. Christmas can get busy fast and in a ridiculous way, for me as my birthday is exactly 4 weeks before Christmas its get crazy with parties, family get togethers and so on and of course one needs to find time out of our daily grind to do the annual Christmas shopping. I was going through my Weekend Empathy Moments on twitter looking for inspiration for the last blog of 2018 and I came across an interview with Russell Brand and Marianne Williamson, Marianne was talking about depression and how it shouldn’t be dealt with in a drug taking way but in a more real and natural way and don’t expect immediate results, what captured my interest in that interview was when she said that its important to show up for people and do not squander one hour in your pain, that made a lot of sense to me. I am at my most productive when I take the time to think about how I can help someone else and this gives your life a purpose as opposed to an existence.

Tis the season of giving, share or donate charity links is a good way to give, I do this regularly and I find it’s a good way to promote empathy and opportunity at the same time, here some good examples since last update, Gulzar Duishenova is a Kyrgyzstani woman with a disability, who lives in a society where persons with disabilities face daily discrimination. One of these forms of discrimination is accessibility; from going to the doctor, to getting on public transport(Click here)  another example is after seven years of war, Syrians are struggling to survive. Over 5.5 million men, women and children have fled to neighbouring countries, where they live in extreme poverty, click here  Please give and be merry. Give a little bit »

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