Births, Families, Work, and Social Responsibility

It'smy son's birthday today. I would like to look at how I saw him when I gave birth to him.

He had an emergency condition when I gave birth to him which the doctors said were minor. He was operated on after I gave birth to him at the same hospital. I got out of the hospital earlier and when he was okay he was also released from the hospital.

He is an adult now. He has his own life and job. But we live far from each other. He is working in the Philippines while I am here in the US. I went back to the Philippines in 2002 to stay there for good but I did not see a lucrative business I can do there. Before my savings ran out, I decided to come back to the US.

I can see that families can have more flexibility to decide where to live or work if we are all being given equal amount of money from birth to death. We can also have option to work for more money if we like to do other things we set out to do for entertainment purposes.

Our lives will be different if we are being given money monthly for just coming to this world. 

Why not?

It is our birthright. 

We have forgotten that being born into this world means we have equal rights to the resources given by the earth. 

Being given guaranteed survival as part of everyone's social responsibility to guaranteeing the survival of all beings birthed in this world is indeed going to change our social eco-system of money.

How would life change? 

Let's imagine using commonsense for a moment,

The way kids will see their parents will change. Their survival will not depend on whether the parents will have money or not. That means they will have access to food, shelter and clothing because the society will provide for that. 

Parents will see their kids in a new way. They will see them as beings who have a right to live, a right to be educated and an equal right to resources given by the earth.

Our decision will also change about where we will work and what kind of work we will do. Work will be about doing that which one enjoy doing rather than something we have to do to survive.

People will not migrate to earn money to survive. Migration will be a self-directed decision rather than something one needs to do 'to survive'.  

Since everyone has the ability to get the basic necessities to survive, the work we will choose to do  will be those that is not very stressful for the body because it is not about working to survive where we take whatever job is available because we have to - so the body will also benefit.

To conclude, I would like to encourage everyone to look at how it is to 'get out of the box' (of self-imposed limitations) we created - where we imprisoned ourselves in. 

We have to look at 'where the door is' that leads to the outside of the box where we can create a world that truly honors life

Animal Meat, Vegetable Meat: Health Care and Social Impact

 

Animal meat and vegetable meat are the 2 kinds of meat we consume as food to nourish the body. Both of them has nutrition.

Why do we prefer vegetable meat over animal meat or vice versa?

Our preference is based on taste which is a matter of deciding which food I can swallow/eat or not, that will give the body nutrition that it needs to function optimally.

One cannot be better than the other in terms of nutrition. Both have nutrition that assist the body that humans can use depending on what his/her body needs and our body has DNA unique to each individual. Our choice should be based on what nutrition our body requires to function optimally and not based on our beliefs.

There are many ways we justify our preference for vegetable meat, but here's the 3 that stands out:
1. Statistics
It supports our belief.
2. Scientific Data
They are mostly financed by corporations selling products that will benefit financially from it.
3. Personal experiences
They are belief-based.

What do we believe?

We believe that animal meat will give us heart disease. We fear being sick so we avoid animal meat which we believe makes us sick. This cannot be true to all individuals because each of us has a unique DNA makeup.

We also fear that we will not have proper care if we get sick. So, this social problem of not having Health care for all available when one needs it has to be addressed.

Our body needs nutrition, so food that has the nutrition our body requires, be it animal, plant, fruit or nut meat has to be available. We have to transform our food choice from being belief -based to being nutrition based.

Here is an example of nutrition coming from plants and animals sources:

NUTRITION INFORMATION

 Nutrition: Pork

Nutrition: Beef

Nutrition: Turkey

Nutrition: Spinach

Nutrition: Apple

Nutrition: Pecans

To buy food that our body needs to get the nutrition that it requires, we need money, so this has to be available when we need it for the above mentioned reasons. I suggest we consider an eco-system of money that aligns to the eco-system of the earth - equally giving to all - where everyone receives equal amount of money every month to get the basic necessities to survive optimally.

Lessons I Learned From My Daughter's Visit: Food, Laws and Waste

It was a sunny day in Asheville, North Carolina. I was visiting my daughter who came to the US from the Philippines for work training. Leon and I were eating at a restaurant. I noticed the waitress cleaning the table next to us. I saw the half-eaten pieces of food on the table that is being thrown away. 

This was not the first time I noticed this. I saw food being wasted also at the grocery store near us in Dallas not to mention the food we waste in our own kitchen and the food being wasted in tv shows like the Food Network etc.

At the store in Dallas, I noticed they throw away bulk produce just because people have put them in bags and they left them laying around in the store because they decided not to buy them. I interviewed several people working in the store and they said that they throw those away because they were told to do that. These are big bags of macadamias, pistachios etc.

 I can see that this is what is happening here;

 the law prohibits returning the produce back to the container due to possible food contamination - so bulk food products in plastic containers laying around the store are being thrown away by employees to indicate they follow the company rules and regulations which the employer agreed to uphold.

We usually justify this by saying, 'the law is protecting the public from getting ill'. 

In the country where I grew up, we get cookies from a cookie jar inside the small countryside stores and if we got more than what we intended to, we return it to the cookie jar and that's all there is to it. Do we get sick more than the Americans? No.

I am not saying that is better than having food laws. I am just looking at the consequence outflow of having the kind of money system that we have - based on some having more and some having less.

I also want to look at our starting point in making laws. The people who make the laws are ordinary people like us who we voted and they, like us, fear being sick too. 

When we are sick we cannot work and earn money.

The laws and regulations that are being made by legislators are driven by fear. We make these laws based on fear.  

The bulk food items in the US store I mentioned above were not even handled by hand. We normally take bulk food items like walnuts, almonds, pecans, macadamias etc. from the bulk containers using a big spoon. We then put them in plastic containers to bring home.

Most of the time, the reason we leave some of the food items in the store - the ones we initially thought of buying, is because we do not have enough money to pay for them. We can correct this by being aware of how much money we have when we enter the store and being aware of what we need to buy.

A health care system that will pay for our hospitalization when we get sick that is available to all from birth to death is not in place. We have to put this in. This is the reason why we fear being sick - because it costs money.

We can restructure our ecosystem of money so that we can make laws and regulations that will support what is mutually beneficial for all

We need a  living income that will give everyone the basic necessities we need plus in addition to that, it will not hurt to have additional income to spend to pay for things we enjoy doing.

Where are we going to get the money to implement this?

There are many ways to do this, but one option is, we can get some money from the corporations who get produce or raw materials from the earth - raw materials that the earth intended to give all of us equally. They can get money for the upkeep of the corporation but the rest of the profit should be given to all of us for whom the earth gave it to. 

We cannot accept and allow some children NOT to eat (from this country or another country) while some waste food and throw them away. We cannot just give a little bit to others. We are all here on earth. We all eat from the earth. We breathe the same air. We cannot just give them a little bit through charity. This is diminishing the life that is equal in all of us.

We have to give others equal shares. 

We are equal share-holders to what the earth gives us.

Lessons I Learned from My Daughter's Visit; Migration, Relationships, Money Etc.

My daughter left North Carolina today for the Philippines. Her training is already finished.

My kids and I are living in 2 different countries.

I can see how the need to survive make us migrate to another country.

These are 3 main reasons why people migrate:

1. To get better work
2. To get better relationships
3. To get better education

All the above leads to more money for the individual planning to migrate.

Migration = money

This is true when one migrates from a third world country to another country which offer more opportunities or better chances for survival.

After we migrate, we work hard to earn money. But, during old age, our body is already frail and we experience more joint pain so it is difficult to enjoy ourselves.

People in third world countries look for relationships in other countries outside of their own for the same reason they look for work. In their eyes, this will guarantee survival especially if the man/woman they will have a relationship with has a steady income or stable business.

Education is being sought after also because this can give one a job that pays more money.

If we have money coming to our bank account every month even when we do not work, that will pay for our basic necessities to survive, and on top of that if we have some more money coming for working jobs we enjoy doing, that will change the way we do things.

How will our work choices change?
How will our relationship choices change?
How will our education choices change?

Can we choose to take on jobs we really love to do?
Can we choose to be in relationships that assist us to grow and express ourselves more?
Can we choose to educate ourselves about subjects that make us learn more about ourselves?

I am sure there will be lots of changes for the better if we have guaranteed survival for all - from birth 'till death in the form of a living income and we have means to get the basic necessities to survive.

Lessons I Learned From My Daughter's Visit: Money and Relationships

We arrived at Ashville, North Carolina after travelling for about  14 hrs. from Dallas, Texas. We arrived at the airport and was trying to find our way when someone shouted at me and waved her hand. I looked and saw my daughter.

I saw her and noticed that familiar face. Interestingly enough, she has some facial features that look like mine. We have not seen each other since 2002. It was nice to see her again.

Her employer sent her to America for training so they paid her fare and her hotel where she is now staying for 7 days. The hotel room was big. She had a king size bed with 4 plump pillows that are encased with a clean white pillow case. There were water bottles on the table top. The television was in front of the bed. There was a coffee maker on the other table. Inside the bathroom there were towels of different sizes, shampoo and soap ready for her to use.

Normally, it's very difficult to enter the US from the Philippines. This can also be very expensive since the dollar is higher in value than the Philippine peso. Only the Philippine elite can travel to the US. Since her employer is paying her travel expenses, money is now out of the question.

Let"s look at a different scenario and ask ourselves this question,

Given that we have a set amount of money we receive every month to pay for our basic necessities to survive just for being born in this world and in addition to that we receive an additional amount of money when we work and receive this guaranteed survival amenities from our country of origin, for both children and adults - would we still migrate?

Using commonsense, the answer will be - no, not as much as we do now, that we migrate to increase our chances of survival in terms of money.

I enjoy her being here but she had to leave her son in the Philippines with her aunt for a week to work here. Her son is being taken cared of by her aunt and that is not a problem.

I can see that there can be room for improvement  in terms of how we can live our life, express ourselves, do what we love to do, plus have better relationships if we work on how our ecosystem of money is structured

Lessons I Learned From My Daughter's Stay: Comfort Equals Money

We are travelling to see my daughter who is visiting North Carolina from the Philippines for a week for work training.

It is very interesting that after travelling for 4 hrs. we can sleep and rest at a motel for $62. We still have to travel 10 hrs. tomorrow from Malvern, Arkansas to Tennessee then to our final destination - Asheville, North Carolina, where we will pick-up my daughter from the airport.

That is how much we pay for comfort. We can sleep in the car and be uncomfortable for no money but we choose to be comfortable for the night and pay the fee.

Comfort = money

This is why we have to earn more money. The homeless and the poor in the streets of LA, Dallas, the Philippines etc. cannot afford this comfort. The ones with money can.

We avoid discomfort but with no money, we do not have a choice.

It would be cool to see every human able to afford a comfortable home where they can rest and enjoy a good nights sleep.

The 'I Am Poor' Mind Pattern: Voiceless Part 2

Youtube Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zsDHl4nf4

Mind Pattern

>I am powerless without money 

>I do not have a voice 

>Please pity me 

>give me alms or charity in cash or in kind

The fact is, without money we cannot have the basic necessities to survive. 

Here, I am looking at a belief that If I do not have money, I do not have a voice, therefore powerless.

Here, there is a desire to be pitied and to receive alms or charity.

Wanting to be pitied and accepting less than what we are worth, like alms or charity is not good enough. We are all parts of this one life so we have equal rights to the resources given to us equally by the earth - we have to speak up and rewrite this mind pattern and create a world that guarantees survival for all.

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I will rewrite this pattern by using self-forgiveness, redefining words and writing a self-correction script - using a commitment statement to correct myself in every moment - when I see myself getting into this pattern.

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What is Self-forgiveness? 

It is the process by which an individual forgives oneself for accepting and allowing self to separate from objective reality, releasing positive and negative value judgments such as good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative - as subjective interpretations of reality regarding something or someone that leads to stability as breath. 

Self-forgiveness Statements:

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I do not have a voice and that because I have no money, I am powerless - rather than see, realize and understand that money is distributed unequally - others receive more and others receive less - so it is for me to  assist and support a system where all have the basic necessities to survive - starting with a living income guarantee - supporting equality.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to desire to be pitied believing that that will make others give me a little bit of money so I can survive, instead of seeing and realizing that - I am giving myself a value that is less than life - by being someone who needs charity to survive - rather than giving myself a value equal to life - someone who is part of the whole - that is life, one who has the right to receive equal resources from the earth - and one who has the right to receive an amount of money that guarantees survival from birth to death.

Correction Script

I commit myself to blog and speak about the problems of inequality and the solutions available  -  to pave the way for a society that aligns its expression to the expression of life, where the main principle of life is the basis of its social policy and decisions - 'what is best for all'.

I commit myself to redefine the word 'poor' 

Phoenetics

From

POO-p of the earth, grrr-R

To

P-ossibility and O-pportunity O-ccuring for us to take R-esponsibility

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Redefinition

From 

Deserving or inciting pity

To

Deserving a living income and guaranteed survival from birth to death