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Video of Occupy Philly 10/23/11

BrilliantPamela — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:58:05 +0000

I attended Occupy Philadelphia City Hall on 10/23/11. Occupy is the new form of protest where a mass of people literally occupy space. It can be city hall, wall street, the federal reserve, major street or route, a college campus or a front yard. As of the writing of this post, Occupy Wall Street has been going on for about a month and since I’m in New Jersey, I figured I head up there and occupy too. But in my head it was “one day” I’ll go up there. And then it hit me, the time is right now! Why do I Occupy? Why do I care? In 2008, while living in a condo complex, my neighbors, a couple with two children under the age of four just walked away from their home. They cleaned the carpets and about a week later there was a foreclosure notice on their door. They just simply just walked away from their home they could no longer afford. This experience hit home so hard that I personally felt the affects of the banking crisis. And I didn’t own home. Little did I know about year a later, my landlord would lose the condo I was living in and I too was forced to leave my home. When did we become a country of homeless working class parents? We work and have children but we have no homes. Something is morally and ethically wrong with that type of thinking.

Today I Got Angry

BrilliantPamela — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:56:47 +0000

Today I got angry. Yes! Just 13 days from 10 day retreat in silence. And I had to use meditation to get to bottom of the anger. (If you haven’t read my previous article, I recently attended a Vipassana Meditation retreat, where I spent 10 days in silence meditating for 10 hrs a day, read the article here.) When the anger crept up, the first thing I did was to stop it, but I really wanted to experience and ride the wave with it and I have to admit, I did for about 30 seconds. But what I learned from 10 days in silence, and guys let me tell this was no party so I didn’t want all that work to be in vain, that when the mind is quiet and not chattering, I am able to see what is really going on. Thinking I was all Buddah-like and had already achieved my enlightenment, I learned today that I’m only at the beginning of this Path of Enlightenment, but this is work. Until today, I’ve never been tested. My environment is controlled: I work from home so I’m not out with people in the world on a daily basis.

So what’s the big deal about being angry? When on the Path to Enlightenment having anger means I have not yet learned to approach any situation balanced and equanimously, seeing things how they are and being in control of my faculties.

What mad me angry? I was angry because someone didn’t share some information with me. After meditating, or approaching the situation without personal emotions, I understood the anger came from the realization that to the other person, I wasn’t someone with whom to share. And in the not sharing, it didn’t allow me to be apart of that person’s joy, which means to me, I don’t bring them joy. Well that hurts! I live my life by spreading Joy, Love, Peace and Harmony to the world. And here was someone I’m not bringing joy to.

Humbling.
Just a little bump on my Path to Enlightenment
Pamela

Joy, Love, Peace & Harmony

Vipassana Meditation – Vipassana Center Jesup, GA

BrilliantPamela — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:05:19 +0000

I’m back and here to spread joy, love, peace and happiness! I just spent 10 days in silence and meditating for 10 hrs a day at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Jesup, GA. Vipassana meditation is a mind purification meditation so therefore no communication, entertainment or exercise or anything that brings the mind to outside of being in the moment and feeling the body’s sensations. If you’ve never taken a Vipassana meditation course it is unlike any other practice of meditation. Instead of just simply trying to quiet the mind, the purpose it to purify the mind by 1. Observing your respiration and 2. Being in the moment. Have you ever noticed that when you’re alone in a quiet place, even though you are quiet, your mind continues to work. What am I going to do later? I hope she made that call. Did I lock the doors? And then parts of songs come in to your head or your starting recapping a TV show or movie you saw.
Try it.
Go to a quiet place in your house or sit in the car for 5 minutes with no one else and no tv or radio. Did you notice you had so many thoughts going on in a minute’s time? Now this time, focus on your breathing, so that each time you breathe in you notice only your breathing, not how hot it is in the car or who’s outside coming up the steps, but just your breathing. Each time you breathe and a new thought comes in your mind go back to noticing your breathing. See?!?! Did you notice how many thoughts came and went in as little as 5 mins! Now multiply that by 10 hours a day for 10 days. While sitting with your legs crossed and back straight without moving for 1 hour at a time? Did I mention the morning bell was 4 AM and the first meditation sitting is 4:30 AM? I’m serious you guys. Try it it and tell me what happens. I attended the South East Vipassana Center in Jesup, GA http://www.patapa.dhamma.org/. However there are centers world wide http://www.dhamma.org. Hit the like button at the top of the page while your here! Show me some love! Check out my other article on Personal Growth and Meditation here. Pamela Joy, Love, Peace and Harmony

My Blog Life in Camden, NJ

BrilliantPamela — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:20:00 +0000

It’s 30 degrees F in Camden, NJ and I go out to get a brisk power walk in the cold before I start my daily blog life excerpt. I always take my camera just in case I find something interesting on the way. And I come by a trash can full of neatly folded children clothes. The clothes make me question, “How can the residents of city with so little of…everything… afford to throw out good clothes?” Just so you have the stats for the city of Camden:

Estimated median household income in 2009: $26,752 Estimated per capita income in 2009: $12,808 Estimated median house or condo value in 2009: $92,900 Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Camden-New-Jersey.html#ixzz1A00OpaWd

1. A trash can full of neatly folded childrens’ clothing (already mentioned) 2. 5-6 men standing in the cold, rolling and smoking blunts (cigar paper filled with weed) in front of a store that is 3. only a block away from Woodrow Wilson High School (later realized they were high school students) 4. 3 high school student smoking a blunt 1/4 block from the high school 5. 3 kids leaving the high school premises and one is smoking Swisser (a flavored cigar) 6. 4 more kids leaving out of the side of the high school building What do you think? Do you have a comment? Are you from Camden or used to live in Camden?

The Blog Life for 2011

BrilliantPamela — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:43:51 +0000

So what we need to for the 1-1-11.

My Blog Life in Review 2010

BrilliantPamela — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:42:58 +0000

Coincidentally my 1st post of the year is on the last day of the 2010. I’ve been spending the last week clearing up loose ends and finishing projects for me and my clients’ sites so that I can feel a since of accomplishment. It’s not like I need the New Year to make me work “harder better faster stronger,” but the new year coming in brings everything that is unfinished into prospective.

My blog is about my blog life, living and making life that is completely interactive online.

My review of 2010 – What was all great – It was my get out year the Year It was the year Unleashed my Power Within. The year I did my darn thing.

It was the year I quit working for someone else to be my own entrepreneur. In order to be the person I wanted, it involved working for me.

2010 was the year where I lived up to my nomad spirit. I lived in Mexico for 5 months of the year and traveled between the States to check on my daughter to make sure she was doing ok. I lived in different states and countries 2 to 3 months at a time. I’m currently finishing out my 3rd month in Camden, NJ and will be leaving for San Diego for another 2 to 3 months in about a week.

I attended Anthony Robbins Unleash The Power Within Seminar in 2010, My 2nd one in seven years. For the past seven years I was only saying I wanted to go but this time I made the action happen.

Another part of my break out year and year of owning it, I actively sought out mentors who are leaders in there field. Instead of talking about it, I be about it! I wrote an email to leading social media expert, Joel Comm and asked for mentorship. Ok so he wrote back that he was busy and suggested someone else for me but I made the effort.

So I sought out another leader but this time in the field of SEO and came across Will Reynolds seminars on YouTube. Will Reynolds, if you read this, holla at your girl! I found out Will is speaking at conference in January, 2011 and rearranged my life to be there. Upon further research, I found out he is the CEO of SEER Interactive an SEO company that is located in Philadelphia only 5 mins away from Camden! Will Reynolds, if you read this, holla at your girl! While on the East Coast, I joined PANMA (Philadelphia Area New Media Association) and found out Will is and active participant and have been eagerly trying to get a meet up with him. Coincidence? Yes. Opportunity from the universe? You’re darn straight it is. Will Reynolds, if you read this, holla at your girl!