A TRAVEL STORY

Hello, welcome to Flight #2019. We are prepared to take off into the New Year. Please make sure your Attitude and Blessings are secured and locked in an upright position. All self-destructive devices or “inner-weapons” should be turned off at this time and the buried permanently.

All negativity, hurt and discouragement should be put away as well. Should we lose Altitude under pressure, during the flight, reach up and pull down a Prayer. Prayers will automatically be activated by Faith. Once your Faith has overcome your fears you can assist other passengers. There will be NO BAGGAGE allowed on this flight. The Divine Creator has cleared us for takeoff.

Destination Happy New Year to all maximum LOVE LIGHT and PEACE ⭐️

Let your Inner-Peace always be mightier than your inner war!

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Indigenous Symbols of Peace

Meaning of the Peace Symbol

Native American Indians were a deeply spiritual people and they communicated their history, thoughts, ideas and dreams from generation to generation through Symbols and Signs such as the Peace symbol.

Native American symbols are geometric portrayals of celestial bodies, natural phenomena and animal designs. In Sioux mythology, Wohpe is a goddess of peace and represents harmony and meditation. She gave the Sioux a pipe as a symbol of peace. The Sacred stone of Wohpe is turquoise which is given as a gift as a symbol for friendship. The meaning of the broken arrow symbol was to signify peace. A Peace treaty or covenant was signed with due ceremony.

The Peace Pipe Symbol

A ceremonial smoking pipe, called a Calumet, was often used to seal a peace treaty, hence the term ‘Peace Pipe’. This name was given to the Calumet by the settlers who only saw the pipe being smoked on this occasion. However, the Calumet was also used to offer prayers in religious ceremonies and in war councils.

The Peace Symbol – “To bury the Hatchet”

It is also interesting to note that the Tomahawk or the Hatchet Axe was a Native American symbol of both war and peace. To bury a tomahawk meant peace – to dig it up, meant to declare the most deadly warfare, hence the phrase “to bury the hatchet” when making peace.

The Iroquois Confederacy – The Tree of Peace

Dekanawida, the Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha united five nations to create the Iroquois Confederacy. The Great Peacemaker used a white pine, called the Tree of Peace, to symbolize the peace that had been established. The branches of the Tree of Peace represented protection. A far seeing eagle sat upon the top of the tree to symbolize a warning system if the tribes were in danger. Beneath the roots of the Tree of Peace a weapon was buried which symbolized that there would be no fighting between the Iroquois tribes.

There were so many tribes of Native American Indians it is only possible to generalize the most common meaning of the Peace symbol or pattern. Native Indian symbols are still used as Tattoos and were used for a variety of reasons and depicted on numerous objects such as tepees, totem poles, musical instruments, clothes and War Paint. Indian Tribes also used their own Colors for Symbols and designs depending on the natural resources available to make Native American paint.

Native American Indians had a highly complex culture, especially those who lived on the Great Plains. Their religion was dominated by rituals and belief in a spiritual connection with nature and these beliefs were reflected in the various symbols they used such as the Peace symbol.

The clothes, tepees and all of his belongings was decorated with art and included symbols depicting his achievements, acts of heroism, his various spirit guides or the most important events in his life. Every symbol used by an American Native Indian had meaning which can be accessed from Symbols and Meanings.

Why Focusing On What You Want Is The Only Way To Make It Happen

By Carla Schesser

Elite Daily

Nov 14 2015

The power of focus is one of the most important abilities of the mind.

A poorly-developed ability to focus will cause life to be difficult. Many tasks will seem impossible.

On the flip side, a properly developed ability to focus causes distractions to become almost nonexistent. Tasks become effortless as you dive in and complete them, one after the other.

In your brain, there lies a peculiar mechanism called the “Reticular Activating System,” or “RAS’ for short.

This brilliant little system allows you to filter the immense amount of data that is constantly flooding into your brain, in order to find what’s important to you.

Without an RAS, you would be completely overwhelmed by the data you have to process just to live your day-to-day life.

Your RAS learns your habits of focus, and from that information, it filters all of the data that comes your way on a moment-to-moment basis.

In simpler terms, this means you will only ever find what you’re looking for.

Your habitual point of focus can be likened to a pair of glasses with colored lenses. Whenever you put the glasses on, everything you see is tinted with the color of the lenses.

In the same way, whatever you spend your time focusing on will determine the color and texture your life takes on.

This is another very important reason to give your sincere efforts into cultivating a positive, happy mindset.

The more you decide to focus on feeling good things, the more these good feelings will show up in your environment, by the way of your RAS.

Your point of focus also determines the thoughts that occupy your mind.

Inevitably, if you begin to focus upon thoughts of your feet, these thoughts will begin flowing into your mind. This is the case with any other subject.

Your focus can be likened to a direct command given to your mind. This tells it what to think about next, and it’s important we give the commands that lead to a better life.

If you choose to focus on reasons why you can achieve your goals and dreams, you will find them.

Likewise, if you choose to focus on reasons why you can’t achieve your goals, you will find those too.

It really is as simple as looking for what you want to see.

A great number of us go through our lives feeling doomed by so-called “bad luck.”

Understand there is nothing superstitious or mysterious about how the universe operates. It plays no games, it has no favorites and it operates according to set law, which it advertises in every blade of grass and every star in the sky.

The most successful individuals to ever walk this planet were those who made an earnest study of those laws and lived their lives in accordance with them.

“Bad luck” only happens to a person because he or she is focused on it. These people think it is just who they are, and they believe they are doomed for poverty and failure.

Inevitably, this focus can bring nothing but poverty and failure to their lives.

Whenever you see anybody failing at life, you can be sure the problem is thoughts of failure.

On the other hand, whenever you see people succeeding in life, you can be absolutely positive their thoughts are those of success and well-being.

Your thoughts create your reality, and your thoughts are determined by your point of focus.

Begin today to focus only on the things you want to see, such as happiness, love, connectivity, ease and success.

Your life will begin to change at once.

Hope you enjoyed this short read on focus and attention. As we focus on Peace and carrying the attributes of Peace such as; Kindness, Compassion, Tolerance and Respect, I hope that an increase in inner peace will be with you and many lives will continue to be blessed.

Maximum blessings,                                

Stewart

In a world full of symbols which one is the authentic symbol of Peace?

I’m sharing the below article titled 7 Peace Symbols (That Aren’t the Peace Symbol) written by Nick Keppler to show the origins of some widely accepted symbols of peace and their modern and recent adaptations from their original origins. After reading this article it brings an interesting question to mind that may be worth answering. Is there a true an ancient symbol of peace? If so who created it and used it???

Enjoy the article,

Stewart

7 Peace Symbols (That Aren’t the Peace Symbol)

BY NICK KEPPLER

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

7 Peace Symbols (That Aren’t the Peace Symbol)

Much like a simple stock image that becomes a meme, the peace sign was invented for one specific purpose and adapted for much broader ones by countless people across the globe. British artist and activist Gerald Holtom designed the emblem in 1958 for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Holtom based its look on the flag semaphore movements for an N (two flags pointed down at angles) and D (one flag straight up, the other straight down), for “nuclear disarmament.” He also based it on the peasant before the firing squad in Goya’s The Third of May 1808.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament produced a series of ceramic buttons with the symbol for demonstrations, but the design was embraced around the world and became a general anti-war symbol. While it may be ubiquitous, it’s not the only symbol of peace. Here are seven others that you might want to add to the back of your car.

1. OLIVE BRANCH

The use of the olive branch as a symbol for peace and end of conflict dates back to ancient Greece, where it was worn by brides and bestowed on Olympic winners. In mythology, the sea god Poseidon once battled the wisdom goddess Athena for rule of Athens. Poseidon dug his trident into the ground and produced a well of ocean water. Athena hurled her javelin and out of the earth came an olive tree. This was more valued by the citizenry than a limitless supply of undrinkable water, and the city rallied to Athena (hence its name). The olive tree continues this significance in the Abrahamic faiths.

2. DOVE

In the Bible, when the flood waters receded, Noah sent out a dove which returned with an olive leaf, indicating life had returned to the earth (Genesis 8:10 – 11). (It was an old sailor’s trick: Release a bird and note its direction upon return to find land.) This tale imbued the bird as a symbol of peace and holiness. It appears in Judeo-Christian iconography, often with a sprig in its beak. Like the olive branch, the dove as a symbol is probably borrowed from other Near East and Mediterranean sources. It was strewn through ancient temples and associated with the goddesses Asherah, Venus, and Fortunata. Picasso’s Dove, meanwhile, became a symbol to Cold War-era peace activism.

3. WHITE POPPY

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The sprouting of poppy flowers on battlefields and grave sites across Europe marked the conclusion of World War I. The flowers feature prominently in John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields.” After the war, the Royal British Legion (a nonprofit similar to the American Legion) promoted the wearing of red poppies on November 11, which is Remembrance Day. Britons also place wreaths of them on graves. In 1933, the anti-war Women’s Co-operative Guild began selling white poppies to embody both remembrance and pacifism. The whiteness symbolized a lack of bloodshed.

While they were not meant to conflict with the red poppy, the white poppy has sometimes been seen as a political symbol. According to the BBC, “many veterans felt that its significance undermined their contribution and the lasting meaning of the red poppy. Such was the seriousness of this issue that some women lost their jobs in the 1930s for wearing white poppies.” Today, however, the Royal British Legion neither condemns nor endorses them. Another group, the Peace Pledge Union, has taken over the white poppy push.

4. “V” HAND SYMBOL

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The “V” gesture, middle and index fingers raised, is a versatile and long-lived one. Promoted by BBC presenter Douglas “Colonel Britton” Ritchie, resistance fighters in German-occupied territories used it as a symbol of camaraderie and strength during World War II—it is the first letter of the French, Flemish, and English words for victory (victoire, vrijheid, and victory, respectively). UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill adopted it to stand for the English victory, and Charles de Gaulle was known to flash a full-arm version of the V-sign during speeches. Extended to embody the end of that conflict, it was then co-opted by ’60s lefties as an anti-war symbol, though they certainly had no exclusive domain over it (President Richard Nixon famously flashed two V’s upon his exit from the White House).

5. PAPER CRANE

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Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the atomic bomb landed on Hiroshima. Due to radiation, she developed leukemia. Her final days were spent constructing origami cranes, reportedly after being told about a bit of Japanese folklore that promises the granting of a wish to whoever produces 1000 of them. Some say Sadako reached the benchmark but kept going, while others say that she reached 644 paper cranes before she was too weak to continue, dying in 1955 at age 12. Her story inspired the adoption of the paper bird as a symbol of peace in Japan. A statue of the girl stands in Hiroshima’s Peace Park, and another, in Seattle’s Peace Park, is often draped in paper cranes by anonymous visitors.

6. PACE RAINBOW FLAG

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For a peace march in 1961, philosopher and activist Aldo Capitini had several colored stripes sewn together to make a flag. Rainbow versions of it (independent of the similar gay pride flag), usually adorned with the world pace(Italian for “peace”), have spread and endured across the country. Pace flags underwent a resurgence in 2002 due to the buildup to the second Gulf War.

7. BROKEN RIFLE

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London-based group War Resisters’ International uses an illustration of two hands breaking a rifle in two as its logo. Founded in 1921, the alliance is active in more than 40 countries and uses the cross-cultural simplicity of the emblem to convey its message. The Broken Rifle is also the name of its newsletter.

The world has never seen a Peace Movement like, “Bury Your Inner-Weapons 4Peace” yet!!!

A whole new world of better thinking with in our grasp! The ancient Indigenous used the broken arrow as their sacred symbol of peace. Many have never learned the true history of North America and how select groups of Indigenous tribes obtained peace after many years of horrible blood shed and rivalry. We will share many of there successful methods on this blog over time.

Claim your place in history by rising up and Rocking the Broken Arrow, a new symbol of Peace for our day and time!

Peace, Joy and Prosperity

Stewart