2013 Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

Today, Sunday, October 20, 2013, I will be joining my Colleagues, Professors, Staff and Students from Globe Institute of Technology (based on West 38th St, in Manhattan) in the walk to make strides against Breast Cancer taking place in Prospect Park Brooklyn.

My thanks to Ms. Marshandra Bracy, Director of Student Services, for organizing our group for this walk.

Although I am not impressed by traditional medical models of Cancer Treatment, I do believe it is important to support those struggling with cancer and encourage their healing.

I strongly believe that meditation, positive creative thinking and walking - exercise can help us to create a healthy body and life style.

I will be taking photos of our group and posting them later

Pink ~ NYC support Healing of Breast Cancer

Walking to the Train from the Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest, I noticed that the 
Empire State building was aglow in Pink.

Let us remember to support those who are struggling with Cancer and help them to heal !!!











New York is truly a great place of much beauty.
Part of it's beauty ... 
is a willingness to help those who are struggling with illness to heal.

the Upside of the Downside Pt. III / III

Text and Photographs © Ralph M. Ferraro, MSW 2013

The day after my presentation – the day after not placing in the top three, I felt good, my energy was increasing. I felt renewed.

The feedback from the night before was beginning to bloom in my head. I needed to improve the organization of my speech based on the time frame. I had tried to weave three stories into my talk – the Sunday morning dilemma, the apparent divergent paths and the importance of searching for beauty and meditating on it. It dawned on me after talking with Gwen, that given the time frame, I was presenting too much material in too short a time frame. If I was giving a three hour presentation, the three stories could have been woven into the presentation in a smoother flow. Given the 7 minutes, I would have presented better if I had focused on the importance of the two key elements requried for placing one's intelllectual energy and emotional energy in a good feeling place, namely meditation (breathing) and searching for and focusing on the beauty that is within our experience.

TidBits from Les Brown's workshop

Les Brown has had a number of challenges to overcome in his life to achieve the success that he is experiencing.

Some of his key advice includes:

1. Never tell a story without a point and never tell a point without a story.
1. a story builds a bridge to the person or audience
2. it is a non-threatening way to engage the audience.
2. He also believe in walking the walk - if you are going to suggest strategies to a person he believes You need to experience the experience - 
1. if is what you learn from your experience that can be helpful to others

Let me know what you think of these points or if you have any questions.

Ralph

Creative Life Force & our Cells

I Believe it is fascinating to realize that our physical cells respond to our creative emotional energies. This has major implications for our health, connecting with our purpose in life and our level of happiness. I do believe that to help our cells maintain health and to live our purpose it is very important to Meditate (achieve mindfulness through breathe) and to search out beauty wherever we are and take a few moments to admire the beauty. Our cells will thank us for the meditation and acknowledgement of beauty.

Abraham-Hicks has an interesting quote related to Our cells and our Creative Life Force

DAILY LAW OF ATTRACTION QUOTATION

"Every cell in your body has a direct relationship with Creative Life Force, and each cell is independently responding. When you feel joy, all the circuits are open and the Life Force or God Force can be fully received. When you feel guilt or blame or fear or anger, the circuits are hindered and the Life Force cannot flow as effectively. Physical experience is about monitoring those circuits and keeping them as open as possible. The cells know what to do. They are summoning the Energy."

--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Chicago, IL on Sunday, November 2nd, 1997

Ralph and Les Brown at NSA Mega Meeting

I had the opportunity to spend a day with Les Brown at the NSA Mega Meeting on 2/15/13. I attended his morning presentation on "Speak your way to Phenomenal Success" and his afternoon session "Exclusive Session with Les Brown."

I almost missed this great opportunity to meet Les Brown and hear his words of wisdom.

"Sunday Morning, the Question, the Journey"

On Monday (2/4/13) evening, I presented my speech  "Sunday Morning, the Question, the Journey" at the Leadership Roundtable Toastmasters International Contest Meeting. I was awarded 1st Place and will go on to the District International Contest.

I spoke about my dilemma of choosing between my two passions: - Photography, capturing the emotional energy of a person, event, a scene, or creating art (abstract colors); Healing - helping a person use their emotional energies to heal from the pain they are experiencing or helping them make choices to rediscover their purpose and move toward their happiness.

I used my experience, learning and photographs to demonstrate the need to find beauty wherever we are, stop and admire the beauty for a few moments in order to put our thinking and feeling energies in a good feeling place. I have found that being in a good feeling place, regardless of whatever is stressing us, is a prerequisite to heal, to make meaningful change.

I have combined my talents and realized that I am a "Healing Photographer."  I will share my passions

• in motivational speaking to Civic, Religious, and Corporate groups, to help their members move toward their bliss and achieve their goals.
• in creating photographic books (with my poems)* and quality photographic prints to enable people to refocus on beauty and refresh themselves.
• Individual Consultation, when a person gets stuck and needs some positive feedback.

* my first photographic book with my poems, "Flashes of Light" is already available. Contact me for details at my email address RmfTop@gmail.com 

New Year's Emotional Energy Thought

New Years celebration follows, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah (festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the Temple), The Birth of Jesus (Christmas). As we meditate on the experiences of 2012 and look forward to the new experiences of 2013, what is our perspective.
Many items in the news focus on tragedies and things that are not working well. I would like to suggest that whatever happened in 2012, everything can be created in a positive expanding way for 2013. We cannot stop the clock, we cannot remain exactly the same.

As Abraham states
"... Your expansion is constant. Keeping up with it is optional." (Abraham-Hicks)

As the lights of Hanukkah increase, illuminating our path, as the radical teaching of Jesus to acknowledge Source Emotional Energy (God) and to love ourselves and our neighbors as ourselves, they point the way for our journey.

I would suggest that to maximise the positive expansion of  our journey,  let us take 5, 10, 15 minutes each day to focus our energy through breathing meditation, to connect with our spirit, our Source (God. Allah, Yahweh) and to rededicate ourselves to allowing, to growth, to Freedom, to Joy, and To creating positive experiences for ourselves and for those within our circles.

As Abraham states expansion will continue but it is our choice whether we use it positively or try to deny or contain it.

Christmas Day 2012

Poem © Ralph M. Ferraro 2012

Hustle, Crowds,

Lights, Sales

Killings - worldwide

thoughts of Apocalypse

4 days after end

Christmas morn

world spins

Sun's up

Friday Rose Sky

Friday Rose Sky

© Ralph M. Ferraro

Beautiful Sunrise

Rose filtered across the sky

Didn’t have my camera

Wasn’t in position oh …

Beautiful clouds, sun, light

Thank You for being

The Thought and the Thinker

Some Provocative Thoughts from Abraham !

"Thought that is projected, now thinks. So it's not possible to separate the thinker from the thought, because the thinker thinks a thought, and then the thought thinks and becomes a thinker, and then

The Inner Voices

The Inner Voice(s)

The Inner voice(s)

When I present, teach or offer a consultation to a person, I talk to the person/audience about connecting with their inner voice(s).

People are interested in the “inner voices” – they ask questions about it. What is it? Will I hear a voice talking? Will the Devil take over my inner voice? You mean I have more than one inner voice? How do you connect with the inner voice?

Let us return to the fundamental question – what are the inner voices? 

Face off with a Deadly Predator

Check out this interesting photographic encounter of a National Geographic Photographer.
Not only is it interesting from a photographic point of view but it can teach us something about relationship and love.  Face off with a Deadly Predator

Energy Alignment Exercise

Some steps to align your Emotional  Energy:

1. Before falling asleep - " Find things in your immediate vicinity - such as your bed, your bed linens, and your pillow  - to direct your appreciation toward."
2. "... set your intention to sleep well and to awaken refreshed ..."
3. When you awake think of things to appreciate for at least 5 minutes.
4. "Refresh yourself by bathing and eating."
5. "... sit for 15 minutes and quiet your mind.
6. Then open your eyes, and sit for five or ten minutes writing a list of things you appreciate about your life."

"In doing this Energy-alignment work, your point of attraction will ... yield to activities and rendezvous with good feeling people, places and things ... your ability to experience the delicious depth of them will be dramatically enhanced."  

p. 235,  Abraham- Hicks

The Vortex: Where the law of attraction assembles all cooperative   relationships

Although many things in the news and in life are primed to agitate us and confuse us - I believe this simple exercise, that we all can do, will greatly enhance our daily experience. It will help us find Joy in our activities throughout the day.

The Blue Flower

Photo © Ralph M. Ferraro 2012

Walking along a path

Admiring the beauty of nature 

To the right

Down low

Half hidden behind some shrub

A Blue Flower appears

I Pass it

Ralph's Interview on the Mel Berkowitz Show

I was interviewed last night by Mel Berkowitz on the Mel Berkowitz Show.
In the interview I reveal what led me to help people with Emotional Energy. I introduced the paradigm of

“Ralph Button … New Beginnings”

Speech and Photos © RmfTop Ralph M Ferraro, 2012

Photo of Ralph taken by Derek Chen, a photographer colleague at Toastmasters

All other photographs taken by Ralph M. Ferraro

Last Monday, I gave a talk to the New York Leadership Roundtable of Toastmasters, entitled

 “Ralph Button … New Beginnings.”

I indicated that ‘New beginnings’ can mean – “already existing, newly discovered, experienced now… bringing into being.”[1]

Benjamin Button[2] experienced new beginnings in a physical dimension of being born old and growing progressively younger in body.

I asked the group to think about the possibility that in fact we are born “old,” i.e. old sentient beings that have much experience and knowledge within a young body.

Garbage – Tonight’s Meal – Tomorrow’s Experiences

"Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal?

Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences?"

---  Louise Hay, "You can heal your life"

Over the last weekend, I was a part of two events that made me wonder about Louise’s quote. 

The first event I attended

Thanksgiving - the 1st of a Trilogy - Appreciation? or Hell?

Thanksgiving Day stirs up a variety of images – Pilgrims – Native Americans - Turkey – Black Friday – Traffic.  All of these images are interesting in the physical emotional energy dimension. Depending on your perspective these images can be positive or negative emotional energy experiences. 

Liquid Sunshine - Some Thoughts

Liquid Sunshine ~~~ Some thoughts

“If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know.

And if you know life is supposed to be fun,

you know more than almost anybody else knows. …”

(Abraham-Hicks, Oct 15, 1998)

It is early morning, you wake up. As you get out of bed, you glance at the clock. You realize that you woke up later than you had planned.. As you glance out the window the weather is rainy and cold. ...