[nabentre] FW: Humans Being More

[Mary Ellen]

Dear LE

You write:  "I think this is appropriate for the list in that it addresses
personal growth at work, which is where people spend a good portion of their
time and energy. A blind entrepreneur would presumably have to deal with
people, so anything like this in my view would be of interest."  You ask if
you are wrong in thinking this way.  I don't think that you are.  Indeed, a
person's life, including his or her working life will always benefit from
personal growth, and Nikken's Humans Being More will be helpful in that
respect.  
You also write:  "I say 
this because I spent too many waking hours at my old job worrying about the 
wrong things because there was disfunctionality and uncertainty all around. 
I had a supervisor tell me not to get emotionally attached to my work, but 
my thought was that after all the hours and energy I had put into it, how 
could I have done it without investing a little piece of myself, and how 
could it not hurt to just dump it?"  Nikken's Humans Being More is partly
about setting and following up on goals for the future, taking the past into
account, so it doesn't hold us back.  
You also write:  "How would I as a good manager in my own startup business
handle a similar 
experience of an employee working under me?"  Nikken's Humans Being More
helps us get into the habit of considering what other people's experiences
might be, behind   their overt behavior, which might not always be pleasant.
So, it is an excellent course for managers.
If you want to discuss your specific situation in more detail, or if you
want more information about Nikken's Humans Being More, you can always call
me at:
(250) 491-7226, or my husband Paul at: (250) 491-7256.  You can also email
me at:  Gabias at telus.net or Paul at pgabias at gabiaswellness.com.


Mary Ellen 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Ellen [mailto:gabias at telus.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 12:06 PM
To: pgabias at gabiaswellness.com
Subject: FW: [nabentre] {Spam?} Re: FW: Humans Being More

How do you think we should respond to these questions? I'd be glad to
answer, but this is a good time to bring you in. There are two parts of the
answer, what we say to this person directly and what we put on the list,
since his/her letter went to the whole list. I don't know who this person
is. All I have is the e-mail address and LE at the end of the message. What
do you think. It was an affirming response. You struck a chord.

Mary Ellen


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Sent: June 24, 2010 3:32 PM
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I think this is appropriate for the list in that it addresses personal 
growth at work, which is where pepople spend a good portion of their time 
and energy. A blind entrepreneur would presumably have to deal with people, 
so anything like this in my view would be of interest. Am I wrong? I say 
this because I spent too many waking hours at my old job worrying about the 
wrong things because there was disfunctionality and uncertainty all around. 
I had a supervisor tell me not to get emotionally attached to my work, but 
my thought was that after all the hours and energy I had put into it, how 
could I have done it without investing a little piece of myself, and how 
could it not hurt to just dump it?
 How would I as a good manager in my own startup business handle a similar 
experience of an employee working under me?
How does this seminar address issues like this? or is it completely 
different?
Just some thoughts.
--le


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From: "Mary Ellen" <gabias at telus.net>
To: "'NFBnet NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List'" <nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:39 AM
Subject: [nabentre] FW: Humans Being More


Personal growth is a part of any successful business -- of any successful
life! After attending a Humans Being More (personal development and goal
setting) class offered by Nikken, my husband Paul sat down and wrote about
the ways in which the experience touched him. Humans Being More is required
of Nikken consultants who wish to build a business. It is open to anyone who
wants to attend, whether or not they're otherwise involved with the company.
If you're part of an enterprise that offers personal growth seminars, I
highly recommend that you take advantage of them. If not, Humans Being More
is readily available to you. Contact me if you're interested in finding a
class in your area. (This is not a commissionable item for Nikken
consultants; it's a break even service offered by the company.) I know this
post has nothing to do with accessible accounting software or the best place
to host a web site. If it's not the kind of thing you're looking for on this
list, I apologize. But if you feel this is an appropriate topic, I'd be glad
to send along titles of books from the NLS collection that I found helpful
in building a business frame of mind.

Mary Ellen



-----Original Message-----
From: Gabias, Paul [mailto:paul.gabias at ubc.ca]
Sent: June 24, 2010 7:23 AM
To: Mary Ellen
Subject: FW: Humans Being More







From: Gabias, Paul
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 9:39 AM
To: Gabias, Paul
Subject: Humans Being More



Nikken's Humans Being More: A Retrospective, Prospective & Global View





Hello Everybody,



I am so grateful for  technology that allows me to contact all of my family
and friends.  Thank you in advance for reading my message to you.



This is a very long letter.  Its first purpose is to invite you to attend a
Nikken Humans Being More course, at a time and place that is convenient for
you.  We would like to hold one in Kelowna, on the 25th and 26th of
September.  Of course, we would like to have you attend ours, if that were
possible.  People do not have to be Nikken Consultants to attend Humans
Being More classes.



Another purpose of this letter is  to send you a letter that will touch your
heart and soul and help you form an emotional connection with Nikken and
what it stands for.  To do this, I consider present day world events with
you.  Then, with your permission, I want to take you back in time, to
refresh your memory of days gone by, and to bring you back again, with a new
perspective.



No, I am not Charles Dickens!  Nor am I Dumbledore's Pensive.  I am Paul
Gabias, and you are important to me.



On our journey, I consider:



1.        Current world events

2.       The erection and destruction of the Berlin Wall

3.       The Cuban Revolutionary takeover  of 1959

4.       The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

5.        The solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis

6.       The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

7.       Isamu Masuda, the founding of Nikken and its global vision for
peace and prosperity

8.       An answer to contemporary world problems: Worldwide Nikken's Humans
Being More courses

9.       The effect of the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings

10.   From the world of Nikken, to your own world, to the world at large.



I was thinking of the problems that President Obama faces right now. As we
are reminded every hour of the day, when we listen to the news, he has the
oil crisis to deal with.  I can't remember in my life time, anything that
matches the magnitude of such a crisis.  They simply don't know how to turn
the oil off.  The president is expected to do something, but what can he do
but rely on others, who don't know what to do either.



Then there is the crisis in the Middle East, which has been going on
practically since the creation of Israel.  And  there are the powerful
Muslim fanatics who hate the Jews and the West.



It is encouraging that the Russian and other communist leaders have, through
various circumstances, been forced to settle down.  I am reminded of my
feelings of amazement and elation  when I heard that the Berlin Wall was
actually going to be taken down.  Oh! The Berlin Wall! A wall of death, for
those who dared to try to cross over it! A wall of laments, for all of us
who mourned because of  the loss of freedom its presence imposed.  It was  a
kind of profane "Wailing Wall" with a different perverse twist.



The Berlin Wall was completed and put into effect  on August 13th 1961.  I
was nine years old, and I remember discussing it with my mother.  We were
horrified.  The Berlin Wall was a concrete demonstration of the impasse
between two ideologies: capitalism on the West Side, and communism, on the
east side.



There had been the overthrow of communist dictator Batista by the Cuban
revolutionary forces led by Fidel Castro on January 1st, 1959.  And then
Castro had proven to be just as dictatorial as Batista, by, among other
things, expropriating everybody's land, for government purposes, and
executing anyone who opposed him. In Cuba, There were civilian government
informants everywhere, leading to a state of deep fear and suspicion in the
entire Cuban population.



On April 19th, 1961,The failed Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro, by
Cuban opposition to Castro, covertly planned and supported by the CIA, did
nothing to help matters.  The failure simply strengthened Castro's strangle
hold on Cuba. And, could it have also led to the erection of the hideous
Berlin Wall, later that August?  Subsequently, It certainly  encouraged the
Russians to place nuclear missiles aimed at the United States, on Cuban
soil.  Presumably, because of Cuba's strategic geographic position for
attacking the United States, The Russians had decided to support Castro.



These Russian missiles of mass destruction, were discovered by the United
States on October 14th, 1962.  Their discovery led to the Cuban Missile
crisis.  Both super powers stood on the brink of nuclear war.  Crazily,
Castro was advocating nuclear attack on the United States.



In 1962, I was ten years old, in the fifth grade, attending l'Institut
Nazareth, in Montreal.  All of this world unrest had hit the school play
ground.  We had heard through the grape vine that there could be what were
referred to as "War Exercises".  They could involve, so we were told,
hearing "sirens during  the night".



To a ten year old male mind, this was both exciting and frightening, all at
the same time.  We hadn't heard what we were supposed to actually do, if we
heard sirens during the night.



In retrospect, what could nuns running a school for the blind actually do
against a nuclear attack except pray!  And maybe, prayers around the world
did work.  The "grown -ups" of the time, certainly were familiar with the
horific aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and they
would surely want  to avoid it happening again,  at all costs.  But more
about that episode of history later.



Through back room subterranean negotiations, Kennedy and Khrushchev came to
an agreement on October 28th 1962.  Kennedy promised to never attack Cuba
again, if Khrushchev took away his nuclear arms from Cuban soil.  Also, a
direct telephone hotline between Washington and Moscow was installed, so
that the two resident leaders could talk - talking to each other is so
important -- to  attempt to avoid future attacks against each other.



Several circumstances, notably, the unworkability of the communist regime,
and I think, a little miracle dust from heaven, operating in the minds of
several leaders, led to the news that we heard on November 9th 1989.
Amazingly, civilians  were actually allowed to cross back and forth again,
between East and West Germany.  By October 3rd, 1990, The wall was no more,
actually taken down; actually out of existence.



But, back in 1945, Japan was not spared a nuclear attack.  I can't even
imagine what went through the hearts and souls of the Japanese children who
survived the nuclear attack, on that day.  And what about the feelings of
their parents?  The history behind that attack is as follows:



On December 7th, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii. At the same time, Germany declared war on the United States.  The
second World War raged on until 1945.



On May 8th of that year, Churchill and Truman were able to declare V-E Day
Victory in Europe day, as a result of Germany's complete surrender to the
allied forces and the Soviet Union.  But the war was not over for the United
States.  There was still Japan to deal with.



On August 6th, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.  On August
8th, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.  On August 9th, the United
States dropped another atomic bomb, this time on Nagasaki.  Japan finally
surrendered on August 15th, 1945.



It is estimated that each atomic bomb, counting all the after effects of its
devastation, killed at least 70 thousand people.  The bombs left big
mushroom clouds of smoke over their target cities, and the humans affected
had their clothing burned right into their skin.



Isamu Masuda, the founder of Nikken was a child who survived the bombings in
Japan.  In order to find funding to help one of his own children who was
born with no ears -- Isamu worked as a custodian at a bus company -- he
founded Nikken in 1975, in Fukuoka Japan.  According to Nikken literature,
He drew his inspiration from the pebbled surface at the bottom of a Japanese
public bath, added magnetism and the Magstep, the first Nikken product, was
born.  Magsteps are an example of a pioneering idea - wellness solutions
based on the natural world. But the company and its founder were motivated
by more than products. A vision of caring, of helping others, was central to
the corporate vision.



In 1984, he selected his high school friend Toshizo (Tom) Watanabe, to
direct the expansion of Nikken in North America and Europe.  Today, Tom
Watanabe is the Chairman of Nikken.  He holds its highest ranking position.
Nikken does business in 38 countries.



Isamu and Toshizo both lost their fathers in the second World War.  As a
result of their intense personal loss, They vowed to dedicate their lives to
helping others achieve peace, financial freedom, balance and wellness in the
lives of other people, the lives of other people's families,  and society.
Nikken was to be a global enterprise, built one person at a time.



Through Nikken's financial incentives for  creating  like minded networks of
good honest people, who are willing to help each other, Nikken's influence
of peace and wellness has continued to grow, since 1975.  did you know that,
among other places on earth, Nikken is now very active in Russia?  Through
the influence of Nikken Consultants from around the world, and other
benevolent forces, in Russia, we are a long way ahead from 1990, when the
Berlin wall was torn down.



I feel so privileged to know some of the people who are instrumental in
expanding Nikken's influence in Russia.  And, the wonderful thing is that,
anybody who lives in a country where Nikken is open for business has the
same opportunity to expand Nikken's influence of peace and wellness, whether
in Russia, or anywhere else.  One way to start, is to experience and promote
Nikken University's course called "Humans Being More".



Getting back to contemporary world problems, they really don't change much
through the millennia.  They always involve inequity, greed, power and war.
The answer  is to always apply systems thinking, and more importantly,
systems feeling, to their solution.  This particularly matters with respect
to the prevention of problems, but systems thinking can also go a long way
in the solution to problems.  Systems thinking must be taught, before people
can gain practice in applying it.



So, for example, if regulations and enforcement of regulations had been more
stringent, the oil spill could have been avoided.  And should there be more
government sponsored research on finding other less costly and dangerous
forms of energy? Of course.  But, for all this to happen, there must be a
primary prevention mind set, promulgated within  the world population, made
salient in the public mind and discourse at all times.  Because Nikken has
the infrastructure to encourage any of its consultants to reach out to
people in 38 countries, Nikken  and its consultants are in a unique position
to encourage a prevention mind set in the world population.



In Humans Being More courses, and at other Nikken events, Nikken teaches
prevention all over the world, through its emphasis on the five pillars of
health:  Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy family, healthy  society and
healthy finances.  Nikken encourages  individuals  to focus on and set
individual goals in these  pillars of health in our own lives, in its two
day course on Humans Being More.



And what about the crisis in the Middle East?  And the fanatic Muslims who
want to take over or destroy the West?  Can Nikken's Humans Being More
course help there too?  Of course.



Nikken's Humans Being More can help with the Middle East and Muslim
situations, because Humans Being More  helps people consider what might be
going on in other people's lives.  The Humans Being More course helps us
discover that there are certain universal concerns that bind us all
together.  These concerns are more matters of the heart than matters of the
head. These emotional concerns can divide us or bring us closer together,
depending on how we understand them.



Now, let's consider the flap of a wing of the butterfly.  In his 1994
banquet address to the annual convention of the National Federation of the
Blind, Marc Maurer, the president of the National Federation of the Blind,
considered the question posed by the "meteorologist and mathematician Edward
Lorenz, who asked in his 1979 address to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science: 'Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set
Off a Tornado In Texas?'"  My understanding is that Lorenz believes that it
can.  I know without a doubt that, at least figuratively speaking, we, in
Nikken do believe it.  And, I am quite certain that people  in the National
Federation of the Blind, also believe it too.  So what is the connection
between the flap of the wings of the butterfly,  Nikken's Humans Being More
Course, your world, and world events?



Each  flap of the wings of the butterfly can represent each loving thought
that each person has toward him or herself.  Also, each flap of the wings of
the butterfly can represent each loving thought directed toward other
people, even to those who don't appear to love us back.



Also, our thoughts and actions toward primary prevention or improvement of
discomfort for ourselves and others in the realm of the healthy body,
healthy mind, healthy family, healthy society and healthy finances, can be
represented by the flaps of the wings of the butterfly.  Each time we set a
goal for ourselves in one of these areas, the wings of the butterfly flap. A
worthy world goal would be to have everybody's wings flapping in the same
direction, just like flocks of geese do.  And of course, the geese take
turns helping each other get to where they want to go.



Nikken's Human's Being More course, is an excellent mechanism for
synchronizing a world direction, one person at a time.



The most important aspect about Nikken, is that its personal development
program - Humans Being More - is imbedded in a much larger framework that
involves specific products that work, and a compensation plan that works,
provided that you work it.   different from any other personal development
program, is Nikken's  related business opportunity, available to people,
virtually free of charge.  As a result of its business opportunity, Nikken
does not leave finances  to chance, the way other development programs do.
In trainings, separate from Humans Being More, available free of charge,
There are actually, specific things to do, to obtain specific financial
results.  There is, in fact,  a proven track record of success and
mentorship for people who are prepared to plan their work and to work their
plan, along their way to financial success with Nikken.  There is nothing
whimsical here.



Nikken has a compensation plan that has no income ceilings. It can satisfy
everybody, no matter what their level of ambition.  That's because Nikken
can offer what everybody wants, in this day and age, and that's wellness.



Wellness means different things to different people, but it is certainly the
case that everybody wants good sleeps, clean water, clean air, good food,
more free time, and a sense of purpose.  Some may even be willing to work to
help others achieve  financial freedom, thereby, helping themselves in the
process.  And, with greater time and financial freedom, Nikken can help
people achieve other specific worthwhile personal and collective goals.



Mary Ellen and I, and our Nikken friends, want to help people, all over the
world, achieve security, financial freedom, equality and opportunity for all
people.  Nikken can help us achieve that



And where to start?  By encouraging you and your friends and family to
attend Nikken's Humans Being More.  It all starts with you.  We can start
the wings of the butterflies flapping all in the same direction.  We are a
huge network of people.  If we use our network in an even more coordinated
fashion, We can have a tremendous impact on our own neighborhood, city,
province or state, country, and the world at large.  You and your friends
and family,  working one person at a time, can have a tremendous positive
impact on the world, never achieved by any  coordinated network before, ever
since the beginning of time.



We have seen that human kind can have tremendous effects on the world, the
erection and destruction of the iron curtain, the bombing of Hiroshima, the
bombing of Nagasaki and the giant oil spill, spewing over 5 thousand barrels
a day or more, into the gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast.



To offer solace, President Obama said in his speech broadcast from the White
House on June 15th 2010:

"The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. This nation has
known hard times before and we will surely know them again. What sees us
through - what has always seen us through - is our strength, our resilience,
and our unyielding faith that something better awaits us if we summon the
courage to reach for it. Tonight, we pray for that courage. We pray for the
people of the Gulf. And we pray that a hand may guide us through the storm
towards a brighter day. Thank you, God Bless You, and may God Bless the
United States of America".

Many people have discovered  that a Humans Being More class, is a good place
to find strength, courage, resilience, and an unyielding faith that, on this
earth, something better awaits us.  Indeed, in the network formed by Nikken
Corporate and  Nikken Consultants, there are many hands to guide us "through
the storm towards a brighter day".

It is my fervent hope, that you, my friends and family, and the network of
your friends and family, and the network of their friends and family, to
many iterations, can become a part of those Nikken coordinated hands.

For more information about attending Humans Being More in Your City, or
organizing a Humans Being More Class in your city, Please contact me at:
(250) 491-7256.



All the best,



Paul Gabias, Ph.D., LL.D.

Certified International

Nikken

Wellness Home Consultant

www.nikken.com/paulgabias











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