Aware Parenting

http://www.awareparenting.com/english.htm

Mindful Parenting

http://www.yogamates.com/news/698/

Truth in the heart

http://images.heartmath.com/heartquotes/hq1087.html?mtcCampaign=2026&mtcEmail=1350619

"Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth."

- Kabir

truth

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

- Mahatma Gandhi

biomimicry/nature songs

http://www.myspace.com/asktheplanet

biomimicry

http://biomimicryinstitute.org/

Children are philosophers

http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/wiki/Main_Page

A great talk at Broadside Book tonight by a philosophy professor on his research and application in teaching how to cultivate the natural born philosopher within each child.

Check it out!

Home Grown!

We are very pleased to be offering custom-made mineral make-up and organic liquid soap, made right here in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Call us for your special order and private label line.

Making it here,

The Emmet's Essentials team!

healthy body care for the whole family

http://www.ewg.org/kid-tips01?utm_source=tips&utm_medium=email&utm_content=second-link&utm_campaign=kid-health

awesome relationship builder

http://www.xiosoftpresenter.com/?eventid=7546107
via Ellen Eataugh @ Extatica.com

heart quotes from heartmath

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

- Audrey Hepburn

Family Yoga keeps the Peace!

http://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/guestblogger/

Big Idea - Friedrich Nietzsche : I Am Who I Must Be

"Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra Reminds me of Walt Whitman's genius statement: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." Or how about 50 Cent's (yes, THAT 50 Cent): "Like it or love it, I am who I am." Do YOU have the courage to stand up and say to the world: "Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be."?!? Good. Thought so.

4 corners of truth

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

Confucius
http://www.jesna.org

Global Mindshift

Great lecture at Forbes library! and they have a new Sam's Cafe snack bar! Learned all about soil science and bio-energy:-)

http://www.global-mindshift.org/

From Higher awareness on the Inner Journey path

Forgive the hurts

"Forgiveness will never fail to free you."

-- Jerrold Mundis

Kabbalah-inspired films

http://illuzia.net/en/videos/clips/embryo

Brilliant!

Big Idea - Byron Katie : Compassionate Alarm Clocks

"It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."" ~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is That's a brilliant statement. Too often we let our stressful feelings get us MORE stressed. Why not look at a stressful feeling as an alarm clock—a very compassionate alarm clock that's nudging us to wake up to a new reality? A reality grounded in truth. I like that. *insert favorite alarm clock sound here!! * Wake up! :) "The pain shows you what's left to investigate." ~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is Let's connect on Twitter & Facebook!

Rally Day! Energy Movement Revolution!

Thanks to our involvement with Green Northampton http://www.greennorthampton.com/ we got the motivating email from David Starr to get out and put our citizenry to power with a community-wide rally to transform the deadly use of coal and start building the secure green future!http://www.securegreenfuture.org/stopcoal on Sunday, March 1st rallies met in Salem Harbor Station (Salem,) NRG & Brayton Point (Somerset) and Mt. Tom (Holyoke) The voice of a Massachusetts Green Social Democrat leads the effort in organizing http://petervickery.blogspot.com/2009/03/mount-tom-demo.html in Holyoke.

Innovator Jeff Brown (UMass) of http://www.ridebuzz.org/ weaves a web forum for carpool and ways to save while forming community coalitions! Thank you innovation! Amy Vanderlaan (pictured right) of Smith College documented the rally with fellow Amherst college Film Studies student.

Rally Day for Plowing The Norwottuck Trail 3/1 @ 2 pm!

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/nwrt.htm
This Trail is Shovel ready at the
Rail Rally on Damon Rd. (Damon on Right) A crowd of great vigor impressed their shovels on the icy sheets of the Norwottuck Rail Trail.
With hot chocolate and cookie tabeled signature clipboards (ala Michael Docter, family & Friends of the Norwottuck trail), people signed and made their wish known with shovels in hand! This is viable and essential to our energy evolution, what a rallyevent day! on the energy way:-)

Background Information on Plowing the Trail:

Question: Isn’t plowing the road going to be expensive?
Answer: No. The town of Arlington currently plows their 3 mile path and it costs them around $2,500 per year.
Question: Will this mean cross country Skiers will not be able to use the path
Answer: Very few skiers use the section between Northampton and Amherst for two reasons: 1) Several cross roads (plowed) and tunnels interrupt the trail and require skiers to constantly remove their skis. 2) People walk on the path and wreck the ski tracks. Even when the path is plowed, skiers will still be able to use the side of the trail as well as the un-plowed section of the trail between Belchertown and Amherst.
Question: The Rail Trail was originally built for “Recreational Use”. Wouldn’t plowing it change it to “Commuter Use”
Answer: While many commuter cyclists will use the trail in the winter to get between Northampton and Amherst, 1000’s of recreational users will also be able to access the trail who are unable to do so now.
Question: How will the plowing be impacted by the up and coming Rail Trail Resurfacing project?
Answer: Over the next 3 years, some million dollars will be spent to re-surface and widen the existing trail. Friends of the Norwottuck trail and allies are working to insure that the new surface is designed so that it can be easily plowed. (By the way, they are not going to use glass for the bike trail this time!) http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/norwottock_rail_trail_users_wa.html

The Importance of Play!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24well.html?_r=1&ref=health

Shared with me by Raymond Ducharme Prof. Emeritus at Smith College in Educational Philosophy

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- John Albert Michener

Inner Journey

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
http://www.higherawareness.com

Truth in Dream (HearMath)

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

- Virginia Woolf

let it flow-

More HeartMath wisdom;

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

- Morrie Schwartz

Being genuine

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

ala www.higherawareness.com

From The Heart- More Wisdom from HeartMath

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

-Marc Chagall

polish

“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”

-- Eknath Easwaran

from selfgrowth.com

heartmath shares wisdom

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

truly seeing

"When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see."

shared with me by Ellen Eatough, M.A.

Breathing

The Calming Breath

- Breathe in and out, nice and easy
- extend your exhale by one count then two,
- Think, "In, I am breathing in. Out, I am breathing out."

Shared with me at a workshop by Elena Volpe, MA, LMFT

wisdom ala heartmath

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

truth

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(quotesforall.net)

more from albert-

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955,
German-born American Physicist
found at selfgrowth.com

look to understand!

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

(ala Hearmath)

explore!

http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/treehouses.html

Soul Flares open the heart-

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these—to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from her essay "Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times"
To read the entire essay, which inspired the name "Soul Flares" visit https://www.soulflares.org/

A thought for the day-

If the teacher is asking the questions, teaching is going on. If the child is asking the questions, learning is going on.

-Taken from the Living The Field course, the masterclass for miraculous living
that brings together science and spirituality.

glowing treasure!

Find the glowing treasure inside of you, this year!
For sunshine lamps, we offer you these at www.emmetsessentials.com

The new Essential Oil bar

Ready for your custom blends
R:-)

from pbs-

Mister Rogers

We serve children best when we try to find out what their own inner needs are and what their own unique endowments are, and to help them capitalize on that.
- The Timeless Wisdom of Mister Rogers

Emmet's Essentials

Emmet himself pouring our new formula!

what windows of opportunity

can you imagine for '09! I wonder?!

Chapatis

Our lovely Pakistani neighbor taught me how to make Chapatis
She actually rolls two together sandwiching mashed potatoes.
They are a staple at her house (she has a bulk sack of flour from Pakistan) and makes them all day for snacks and meals.

They are super easy: flour, water, salt (we use pink salt)
roll 'em out, sizzle and . . yum! . .