This document discusses various topics related to raising awareness, including mindfulness, yoga, Buddhism, compassion, cultural anthropology, leadership, and sustainability. The main messages are that we should cultivate self-love and awareness through practices like meditation, appreciate each breath we take, explore different cultures and perspectives to reduce bias, and work to build a sustainable future through community empowerment and living more harmoniously with nature.

2. Raising Awareness
You can search throughout the entire universe for
someone who is more deserving of your love and
affection than you are yourself, and that person is
not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much
as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your
love and affection ~Gautama Buddha

3. It is through our mind body
process that we perceive the
world, and it’s through this
same process that we
influence change.
Become the change!
Consciousness
Awareness

4. ❖ You get back what you put into
anything!
❖ Shamans medicine – keep a journal!
❖ Non-judgmental practice.
❖ Revealed lacking foundation
❖ Yamas & Niyamas –yokes body, mind, & spirit.
❖ Dosha -- acknowledged character traits
❖ Pranayama – rejuvenating senses.
❖ Asana – Renewable strength
Yoga

5. "Knowingly or
unknowingly, we steal
things from nature. With
every breath, we pick
nature's pocket. But that
doesn't mean that we need
to stop breathing."
Instead, we should be
thankful for each breath,
and use it to serve others.
Then, we‘re not stealing,
we are practicing Asteya.
One of the many rewards
that comes with practice is
Compassion: Deep
awareness of the suffering of
another individual without
the need to relieve it feeling
total appreciation for its
value state of non-judgment.
Asteya

6. Killing aspects of nature,
contaminating water, hacking private
accounts, and falsifying information on
the web, are just a few examples of
global stealing.
Globalization
The majority of food on display has
been shipped halfway around the world
from poorer countries, which in turn,
impacts their own agriculture,
contributing to poverty, hunger, and the
destruction of self-sustaining
communities.

7. Your Opportunity
for Growth and Awakening
Takes the shades off
SanghaDharmaBuddha

9. ❖ Socialization
❖ Conformity
❖ Structural violence
❖ Paradigm shift
❖ Revolutionary
❖ Ambassador
At essence, an inner truth be known, encouraging one to wear their heart on a sleeve.
Peace Psychology

10. Meditation & Mindfulness
❖ Icing on the cake – Unlimit Your Potential in Wielding the Mind
❖ Power of Intention – Strengthen the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection
❖ Enhance Cognitive and Heart Functioning
❖ Empathy
❖ Equanimity

11. Intercultural Film & Literature
❖ Tranquil learning environment - Explore Ethics
❖ Enriching films and books – essay analysis
❖ Deep look into the Human Experience
❖ Bridge many perspectives via Multicultural
"Wisdom is Baptism by Fire.” Mark McKinnon

12. Intercultural Communications
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Jewish
proverb.
• Collectivistic culture value compassionate love, slower cultivating love. Some practice
arranged marriages in this culture, but couples do have the choice, and lower divorce
rates. Large Power Distance
• Ethnocentrism
• Belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.
• Individualistic cultures value passionate love, love at first sight, high divorce rate.
• We assume that we perceive others' behavior in an objective, unbiased manner.
• Perceiving an alternate reality – gay culture, mental illness, dead pool, and mutation.
• XMEN's Northstar, comes out of the closest as a gay hero.
• Green Lantern is racist against his own kind.

13. ❖ Buenos días a todos
❖ Great potential
❖ Gained depth in English analysis
❖ Learn a Romantic Language (Roman-LATIN in origin)
❖ Become Multi-lingual (Good for Travel, meeting new people, and Self-
exploration)
Spanish

14. ❖ Fundamental for understanding learned/conditioned behavior and family
lineage.
❖ “Race” is a socially constructed category (based on physical factors)
❖ Ethnicity is based in one’s cultural heritage, language, and ancestry.
❖ Nature versus Nurture
❖ Religion (belief system)
○ Art (any style or design) portraying a person, idea, or
○ Language
○ People’s Relation to Nature versus Structure of Society & Worldview
Cultural
Anthropology

15. Unlock you Mind. Unlimit your
Perceptions. Make Life and
Connections Easier. Aum chant
Everyday for 3 minutes and
practice full-body awareness
for at least 15 minutes a day.
“We are One, therefore We are Connected.”

19. Exploring Leadership
~Established values for engagement and authentic Team Building.
~Discover personal strengths & character types in Application.
~Learn about Organizational Structures and Develop Local Projects
~Find Balance in all Relations & Empower Community

20. Our Sustainable Future
❖ Extensive and challenging, with immense amounts of personal and
psychological growth
❖ Vital for understanding social, economic, and environmental
constructs.
❖ Commodification of social, cultural, spiritual, natural, and aesthetic capital.
❖ Learn about the Cooperative Interdependence we have with Nature.
❖ Deepen appreciation for fewer materialistic possessions.

21. Develop your Practice
Read
Write/Journal
Research
Have Fun!
Connect with People & Nature
Explore Strengths & Purpose
Dance ~ Sing ~ Poeticize
Learn something new
everyday, then
APPLY YOURSELF ;)
Meditations:
Tonglen: equanimously observe
emotional states
Ho’oponopono: Forgiveness,
within myself first, empowers
others to natural healing.
Shamanic Journeys: Journey
Home to the Heart of All,
Loving the Child within all beings,
Meeting the masculine & feminine
of my innermost being, et cetera