stewardship

When Conformity And Stewardship Collide

by 10.18.2011 Healthy Living
Lady

photo credit: Svadilfari There is an interesting relationship between conformity and stewardship.  Sometimes they work in harmony and other times they collide. All societies create structures and norms that define daily life and the predominant mission of the society. Generally the predominant mission which is another way of saying values, is driven by some type [...]

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Time And Space

by 10.11.2011 Healthy Living
The Main Stairs

photo credit: Peter Alfred Hess There is a very direct relationship between time and space.  The more attention you pay to time the less attention you pay to space. They are actually two very different values. They are also two antithetical values. Time compresses.  There seems to be an idea in the western cultures that [...]

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What Is Stewardship Thinking?

by 09.30.2011 Constructive Self

What is stewardship thinking? Stewardship thinking is the spirit of friendship  and goodwill applied to life.  Its primary value is quality of life. By placing those values above results, people who operate on a stewardship basis have a better chance of achieving positive outcomes. Stewards know that outcomes are the result of processes that seek [...]

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People Power And The Wisdom of Crowds

by 09.16.2011 Constructive Self

Apparently we have entered the age of people power and the wisdom of crowds. James Surowiecki who wrote a famous book on the subject, The Wisdom of Crowds, talks about the various ways people collect information, coordinate their actions and cooperate with each other and how top down, expert oriented systems often are ineffective and wrong. We [...]

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Subtle Energy and Urgency

by 08.29.2011 Healthy Living

Because of their sensitive nervous systems, highly sensitive people pick up on all kinds of nuanced subtle energy going on around them. The most minute ripple of energy penetrates their awareness and takes a place in the consciousness of an HSP. In our fast paced world,  those many small awareness can build up and clog [...]

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New World Of Work for HSP’s

by Maria 08.25.2011 Healthy Thinking

As the center of gravity in our society shifts from an individualistic to a communitarian approach to life and work, a new world of work is opening up for HSP’s.  The Age of Accumulation is giving way to the Age of Sharing. For centuries, we humans have created different societal structural models to support each step [...]

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Class and Superiority

by 08.15.2011 Perspective
Kindness Meter

photo credit: m.gifford Why are class and superiority important subjects for highly sensitive people? Social anxiety is a serious problem for highly sensitive people, since HSP’s values are different from those of the dominant culture –  a culture that pursues competition above quality of life.  Finding a way to be in and live in the [...]

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