Peace Today

Question for you all: What did you do today to promote peace?
Meditate? Resist consumerism? Make a new friend? Meet a neighbour? Find some quiet space in you? Other ideas?

Peace and Pace of Life

On the next Stay Peaceful, the topic will be Peace and Pace of Life.

Is your pace of life peaceful?
Has life taken you, or are you living fully?
What can we do to achieve proper pace?
What's driving us to live lives that are too fast for anyone to enjoy?
Is it possible to awaken and move toward the pace we need?

These and other questions and ideas will be examined on the next Stay Peaceful.

I hope you can tune in.

Stay Peaceful,

Jason

Scuba and the Peace of the Deep

On the next Stay Peaceful, we will be diving into the topic of Scuba and the Peace of the Deep.

My special guest will be Michael Mehta, a Scuba diver who will be relating his experiences.

Some of the ideas we will explore will be:

1. What is Scuba?
2. Why is Scuba an attractive activity?
3. How does Scuba and its practice lend a level of Peace in one's life?

Please join us on Sunday, September 23rd at 1pm Pacific.

Local: 92.5FM
Online: www.thex.ca/home.php

I hope you can tune in.

Stay Peaceful,
Jason

Playlist for Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Tea Party "Winter Solstice"
Red Priest "Telemann, 'Gypsy' Sonata in A Minor, i. Largo"
Blind Faith "Can't Find My Way Home"
The Toronto Consort "Clauso Chronos"

Peace on the Labyrinth: Suggested Reading and Listening

Peace on the Labyrinth: Suggested Reading and Listening         

Labyrinths and Spirituality

·      Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice

            By Lauren Artress, PhD, Riverhead Trade; Revised edition 2006

·      Labyrinth: Landscape of the Soul

            By Di Williams, Wild Goose Publications, 2009

·      Finding the Still Point: A Spiritual Response to Stress (chapter 7: "The Labyrinth Phenomenon")

            By Tom Harpur, Northstone, 2002

Mindfulness and Meditation                           

·      Mindfulness for Beginners

            By Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Sounds True, 2006 (audio CDs)

·      Meditation for Optimum Health: How to Use Mindfulness and Breathing to Heal Your Body and Refresh Your Mind

            By Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, and Andrew Weil, MD, Sounds True, 2001 (audio CDs)

·      Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

            By Matthieu Ricard, Sounds True, 2007 (audio CDs)

Science and Meditation

·      Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

            By B. Alan Wallace, Columbia, 2009

·      God and the Brain: The Physiology of Spiritual Experience

By Andrew Newberg, MD, Sounds True, 2007 (audio CDs)

·      Stress-Proof Your Brain: Meditations to Rewire Neural Pathways for Stress Relief and Unconditional Happiness

            By Rick Hanson, PhD, Sounds True, 2010 (audio CDs)

The World-Wide Labyrinth Locator has been designed to be an easy-to-use database of labyrinths around the world. Information about labyrinths you can visit, including their locations, pictures, and contact details, are accessible here, along with information about the many types of labyrinths found worldwide. Labyrinths occur in many forms, shapes, and sizes, and the Locator contains both historic and modern examples. At the current time the Worldwide Labyrinth Locator database contains over 4000 labyrinths in 70 or more countries.

www.labyrinthlocator.com

Prepared for "Stay Peaceful" on 92.5 FM The X by Nina Johnson, Lecturer, English and Modern Languages Dept., Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

Peace on the Labyrinth

The topic for this Sunday's Stay Peaceful show is Peace on the Labyrinth.

Special guest Nina Johnson will be talking about her work with labyrinths, the history of labyrinths, their use and much more, including her work to have a labyrinth installed locally.

So, tune in for what will prove to be a stimulating and insightful show on Sunday, September 16th at 1pm Pacific.

Local: 92.5 FM
Live streaming audio online at http://www.thex.ca/home.php

I hope you can tune in.

Stay Peaceful,

Jason

Playlist for September 9th, 2012

The Guess Who "Pleasin' For Reason"
Leonard Cohen "Banjo"
Colin McPhee "Pemoengkah"
Glass Hammer "A Rose For Emily"
Artie Shaw "Frenesi"
Georges Gurdjieff "X, 23 -Untitled"

Peace and Pastimes

The topic for this Sunday's Stay Peaceful is "Peace and Pastimes".

Pastimes are those activities we regularly do for enjoyment rather than for work. Usually, these activities do not include religious activities, or pursuits that are for personal gain, except for the personal gain of pleasure.

Some ideas that we will be exploring include:

1. how pastimes help us frame our working life in a blanket of peaceful existence, 
2. what a pastime says about an individual, or a group (if anything),
3. what a pastime can do to promote peace, and
4. how pastimes are essential to peaceful living.

These and other ideas will be discussed on the next Stay Peaceful.

Have an idea to add? Comment!

Have an idea for an upcoming show, or are you involved in some activity or study related to peace? Contact us!

In the meantime...

Stay Peaceful,

Jason

Playlist for September 2nd, 2012

Elvis Costello "Welcome to the Working Week"
Neil Young "The Restless Consumer"
Lou Reed with John Cale "Work"
Bruce Cockburn "Gifts"
Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs "Beg Steal or Borrow"
Charles Dutoit w/ L'Orchestre du Montreal "Shostakovich, Symphony No. 9, III: Presto"