How to Invoke God?

The word God has come from Hebrew and Greek ancient texts that mean,

1. To pour, and,
2. To invoke

To wholeheartedly connect to the heart of God-

Firstly, you need to be immersed more fully in God by pouring your soul into God.

Secondly, you need to have God enter more fully in you by invoking God into yourself.

Pouring yourself with devotion

In India, worship translates to the word “Pooja” which means to devote your whole self. Give your whole self to God, like you give your whole self to a swimming pool while jumping or diving into it. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth are all cut off from the material world for a while and only the pool water is the external world at that moment. You can easily do this by sitting silently and breathing deeply. In Yoga this is called Prathayara - withdrawing from sensory and mental distractions. In this state you easily transition in to meditation by whichever technique you know that works for you.

Invoking God in prayer

During meditation is when you can invoke God fully. Pray to God to pervade your body, mind and being with Grace. Feel the lightness that follows and remain in it till you get the feeling that you are full.

Now you will be surrounded by God both inside and outside you. You will become a portable heaven as you go about your worldly duties. Smiling, unperturbed, spreading joy wherever you go…

Do this daily to refuel yourself so that any dissipation of God energy due to the waning of devotion or the friction of material life is replenished and the Grace of God remains ever present.

When you invoke God day by day, you will build divinity into your life drop by drop, and you will become an ocean of Divine Love giving succour to all that comes your way...

You are in God and God is in you.

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A to Z for Harmony on Earth

With the recent escalations in conflicts and many theatres of war opening up, it is imperative that each human becomes humane and that they work towards building harmony in their communities, organisations and governments.

If you don’t, then we all know you will suffer through exclusions, bloody wars, and economic stress.

Here are simple A to Z rules you can apply wherever you are, to make a difference for the better..

• A for Awareness: Become aware of what is so and why. Learn about the interconnectedness of things at the material, mental and metaphysical levels.
• B for Beauty: Be grateful for the beauty and usefulness of nature and automatically you will make it better by balancing the ecosystem.
• C for Cooperation: Be committed towards your mission in this A to Z framework which can be achieved only through cooperation.
• D for Dialogue: Continue dialogues to iron out disagreements and to avoid conflicts.
• E for Empathy: We are all one and what you do for another you do for yourself. This will help you to act out of empathy.
• F for Freedom: We need to give freedom within frameworks of natural discipline for individuals to feel loved and feel joy which are the driving force for the development of all humans.
• G for Glocal: In whatever you do for the good of your locality, try and apply the global best practices suited for it.
• H for Honesty: Transparency is the first step towards honesty. Balance security and transparency for the good of humanity.
• I for Invest: What you sow is what you reap. So invest in actions that will secure the future of the next generations.
• J for Joy: When you help others the outcome is joy. Focus on getting this joy.
• K for Kindness: When you speak kindly you will be listened to.
• L for Love: Love your passions.
• M for Machine: Use machines like your servants for the overall benefit of humanity.
• N for Nurture: Without nurturing what you sow within this A to Z framework, you will not get the fruits of it.
• O for Openness: Keep your eyes and ears open to new ideas and your heart open to new acquaintances.
• P for Protect: Use your power to protect that which is in need of it for the greater good.
• Q for Question: Questioning is hard but yet you have to question things rather than taking them as gospel truth.
• R for Responsibility: Without taking responsibility for what you wish to change, nothing is going to happen.
• S for Sustainable: Whatever solution you are working on, make sure it is sustainable for itself and sustainable for the earth.
• T for Thoughtful: Be thoughtful towards the overall good of humanity.
• U for Umbrella: Develop umbrellas for protection against all kinds of anticipated disasters.
• V for Visit: It is important to make physical visits to places for meetings and inspections which can be interspersed with virtual ones.
• W for War: Yes war! You have to start a war to bring harmony on earth. Appoint generals and soldiers to fight this war.
• X for Xray-eyes: You have to see through ulterior motives of people through xray-eyes and counter them with win-win solutions.
• Y for You: The most important person for this A to Z framework is YOU! So focus on your self-development on a daily basis.
• Z for Zone: You can’t change the world alone. For whatever work you pick up to work for the harmony of humanity, create different zones for the work where others trained by you will lead the work.

The words are simple but to implement them takes a lot of courage. What do you do when you have a time-bomb in your house and you cannot go outside that house. You muster the courage to defuse the bomb. It’s a do or die courage that you have to muster up right now! So let’s get on with it...

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19 States of Success

Success means to get desired outcomes and is derived from two Latin words:

1. Succedere
2. Successus

Succedere means, come after; prosper; be victorious.

Successus means, a good result and happy outcome.

If we combine the two it essentially means you must successively get happy outcomes for success.

After a lot of reflection and discussions, I arrived at the following 19 states that may mean success for you:

1. Being alive today since human life is fragile.
2. Being healthy and fit without external aids.
3. Being equanimous everyday.
4. Doing what you love.
5. Doing what you are good at.
6. Being able to trust others and having their trust.
7. Having recognition.
8. Fulfilling your desires freely.
9. Being kind everyday.
10. Being forgiving everyday.
11. Being helpful everyday.
12. Being loving everyday.
13. Being joyful everyday.
14. Being grateful everyday.
15. Being accepting everyday.
16. Being aware of the present moment.
17. Having no regrets.
18. Having no guilt.
19. Not having the need to define success and therefore unbound by definitions.

Tathastu (So be it) - is a state where you or someone blessing you have full faith that your wishes will be granted by the universe and this is when you are unbound by definitions.

There was a gentleman who had a lucky run on the stock market for 37 years and became a billionaire. He then opened a popular airline, but shortly thereafter he died in his early sixties due to multiple organ failure. And, there was another gentleman who lived about 2000 years ago, who among other things during the struggles of his life had all the 19 states of success mentioned in this article and attained enlightenment. He died a natural death in his early eighties and is still revered across the globe even today.

What seems to be most important in achieving success is not losing your balance as you go along because only then will you have good results successively.

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Why Yoga & Meditation is Good for You

In the rush of life, the pressure to meet timelines to deliver results, the desire to achieve some kind of superiority leading to frustrations caused by ambitions not reached, excessive indulgence in sense pleasures due to greed as well as habits, the cognitive apparatus gets disheveled, defiled, drained and tired, leading to symptoms of stress and burnout.

Unless you energise and infuse this cognitive apparatus with Vital Life Energy (Prana) you will be unable to perform tasks satisfactorily, with creativity and enthusiasm. A tried and tested way of energising yourself is Yoga in its broadest sense, which is not limited to the practice of just posture based excercises known as Hatha-Yoga.

195 Yoga aphorisms, known as Yoga Sutras, were compiled in the early centuries CE, by the sage Patanjali in India who synthesised and organised knowledge about Yoga from much older traditions.

The Yoga aphorisms are best known for the reference to 8 elements of practice culminating in a state of meditative consciousness of the mind, by concentration on something, leading to meditative absorption, and with regular practice, the development of a luminous mind which is equanimous and mindful.

The 8 elements of Yoga practice are:

1. Abstinences (Yama)
2. Observances (Niyama)
3. Yoga postures (Asana)
4. Breath control (Pranayama)
5. Withdrawl of the senses (Pratyahara)
6. Concentration of the mind (Dharana)
7. Meditation (Dhyana)
8. Absorption (Samadhi)

The main aim is to reach a state where you are untouched by the highs and lows of a dual world by transitioning to a meditative and metaphysical witness-consciousness state and observing empirical reality as separate from it. The by-product of this is being infused with Vital Life Energy which elevates your body and mind leading to a better quality of life.

Here are a host of metaphors that may encourage you to do Yoga and meditation, daily, to keep you going with your life in a state of happiness and devoid of stress:

1. Yoga and meditation is like filling your bicycle tyres with just the right amount of air so that your ride is not bumpy but smooth because the air also acts like a shock-absorber.
2. Yoga and meditation is like topping up your vehicle with fuel for the day. You just need to plug-in to the fuel source for a short while and then move on to your tasks for the day.
3. Yoga and meditation is like a gentle wind that blows and clears the clouds hiding the sun so that the light of your Soul can shine through into your body and mind and bring in a feeling of lightness and take away the feeling of heaviness.
4. Yoga and meditation is like rain that keeps the soil humid and therefore more fertile for seeds of creativity to sprout and new cells to grow.

According to scientific research, Yoga may:

1. Reduce stress
2. Relieve anxiety
3. Help manage depression
4. Stimulate brain function
5. Help prevent heart disease

I hope this article has encouraged you to learn techniques for Yoga and meditation and practice them daily for a fulfilling life.

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Winning & Losing

There are no winners and losers because life is about experiences. You have to experience a low to know what a high is.

Which brings me to the point that everything that exists is like a wave. It rises, plays for a while and then recedes. Have you ever watched a wave in an ocean? The waves are not winning or losing but just moving…

So that’s how life is to be lived - constantly moving, marching on, and never quitting. Forget to die as well and allow life to take its time to give you many experiences!!! If one had to define a champion it would be one who never quits!

Persistence and agility are powerful! Observe how, soft and accommodating water is able to erode hard rocks into well rounded pebbles. So if you want to create something beautiful, keep at it with a soft attitude and you will see a wonderful outcome emerge gradually, appreciated by all. Start now...

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God: An Autobiography - A conversation with the author

 An enlighteneing Zoom conversation with Jerry Martin, the author of God: An Autobiography as told to a philosopher, after I met him in USA.

Some interesting topics that were talked about from the book:

1. Obedience to God
2. Guidance from God
3. God beyond God
4. Universal Theology and more..

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Is Covid going to finish Intellectual Property Rights?

Talk has started on abolishing intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines. The idea has been proposed by the Prime Minister of India and seconded by the President of the United States of America.

The world needs more the 6 billion of its population vaccinated to immunise the breeding ground of the Corona virus - the human. Every human is at risk of contracting Covid-19 if they have to lead a normal life of at the least socialising with other humans, a natural instinct of being a gregarious species.

If we don’t immunise the population of the planet fast, all of us will run a higher risk of dying early! So immunisation is a common purpose for every country and every individual, because who wants early death!!!

Questions:

1. Will Big Pharma that has spent millions on the research & development (R&D) of these vaccines be ready to allow anyone to manufacture them without any license fee to recover the cost of development?

2. Should a drug development & manufacturing company’s accounts be allowed to be audited by a statutory body to ascertain the cost of each shot after factoring in the cost of R&D and a nominal profit percentage be added to the total cost to make the retail price more affordable?

3. Should another manufacturer who is using the intellectual property of a drug discovering entity pay a nominal royalty so that the drug discovery company can recover costs of R&D?

One Solution:

Worldwide quotas for deciding the quantity of annual production of a particular patented drug can be set by the World Health Organisation and based on this quantity and audited costs of R&D, the royalty can be worked out to recover the costs of R&D.

Questions and solutions are being discussed about intellectual property rights when the ultimate beneficiary is the whole of humanity.

Elon Musk has already lead the way in 2014 with the Tesla Motors patents being opened up for anyone's use in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. “Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport”, wrote Musk in his blogpost - All Our Patents Belong To You.

In that spirit, let us all contemplate a few more questions-

• Why does the planet earth have humans?
• Is there a collective purpose?
• Should each human be responsible for the upkeep of the planet in terms of sustainability so that the collective purpose may be realised?
• Should profiteering be limited to an optimum that allows both money for innovation to the producer and affordability to the user?
• Should "Right to Life" override "Rights of Patent Holders"?

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Is Covid Spreading Love?

You let a microbe bring you to your knees?

What if the Carona virus is causing love to spread?

What if Covid-19 is enhancing understanding and compassion for each other?

That could sweep over this planet with wellness and make things happen that never happened before.

If this is not what you think, think again.. 

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Preventing Burnout by ramping up your Spiritual Quotient

Why develop your Spiritual Quotient?

Burnout is the chief reason.

What are the symptoms of burnout? Ask yourself these questions and even if one answer is “Yes” you need to address it.

1. Have you become cynical or critical at school/college/work?
2. Do you drag yourself to do a job and have trouble getting started?
3. Have you become irritable or impatient in your interactions?
4. Do you lack the energy to be consistently productive?
5. Do you find it hard to concentrate?
6. Do you lack satisfaction from your achievements?
7. Do you feel disillusioned about what you are doing?
8. Are you using food, drugs or alcohol to feel better?
9. Have your sleep habits changed?

Statistics of Burnout

• Gallup recently surveyed more than 7,500 full-time employees about burnout.
• 23 percent of those workers said they felt burned out more often than not.
• An additional 44 percent reported feeling burned out sometimes.
• To put that into context, nearly 2/3rd of full-time workers are dealing with burnout at some point while at work.

Burnout Defined

Employee burnout cases have increased to the point where the World Health Organization has officially recognized it and included it in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. 

The handbook describes burnout as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

Body-Mind-Spirit

Humans are 3-part beings – Body Mind & Spirit and we have to manage all these three parts effectively for a balanced life that is without dis-ease!

What is Spirit?

Spirit is the presence of the fine energy within and around you which for instance is responsible for digestion.

A dead body cannot digest food because the Spirit is missing!

SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT is about infusing your thoughts and actions with Spirit leading to desirable attitudes and qualities. 

Examples are - Cheerfulness, Gratitude, and Empathy.

There are many ways of building your Spiritual Quotient, the chief ones being – 

Life Skills, Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation.

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If it’s not empathetic, it’s pathetic - Corona Days

As I wake up I hear the music of birds chirping
The cool air and pure oxygen draw me into deep breathing

There are few deadlines to meet
And I no longer have a beat

Time has become a river flowing
And I don’t know where I'm going

Life is a song I now sing with no end
Targets have little meaning as I can’t control a graphs bend

I have realized that going against the flow becomes a fight
Compassion is the only thing that seems right

If I don’t make a pivot
I will rust along with an old rivet

Video calls with friends make me light
I have started enjoying an extended night..

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Covid-19 Paradoxes

Never have I seen such paradoxes that have made thoughts look like boxes.

The air is pure but wearing a mask you have to ensure.

Roads are clear but going on a long drive is unclear.

You have clean hands but there is a ban on shaking hands.

Friends have time to sit together but you can’t get together.

The cook inside you is crazy, but you cannot share your skills as attending parties is hazy.

On every Monday, the hearts of some long for the office buzz but the weekend doesn’t seem to have an end.

Those who have money have few ways to spend it. Those who don't have money have few ways to earn it.

You have enough time but can’t fulfill your desires that are prime.

People are coming into the world without celebrations and going away with few at their last rite ministrations.

The culprit is everywhere but you cannot see where.

For a while you have to stay in this world and find bliss in your inner-world.

When the change happens deep within, only then will a renewed world begin..

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Overcoming Pain - Q & A

I went onto a forum that's been created for emotional and spiritual support and was moved to see the painful circumstances some people were going through. I felt very empathetic towards them and delved deep inside myself to give them some answers that I thought may help them, and help others with similar circumstances too. So here are the questions of four people put out on this forum who reached out for help to overcome their pain and each question is followed by my answer for guidance.

Question 1: I started this spiritual journey to awakening about 2 years ago and it seems the further into my journey I get, the more disconnected I feel. I get these feelings like I don’t want to be part of this world anymore. I see more and more the greed, selfishness, meanness, and madness going on and it's so disappointing and disheartening. It's at a level I wouldn’t even be able to describe, but I’m constantly feeling like I want to leave this place and go “home”. Not in a suicidal way but rather in a tired and just need rest kind of way. Like to retire to a familiar, peaceful, comforting place. Is this normal? Is it something I should be working on to “fix”?

Answer 1: A great life skill to have along your spiritual path is to accept others as they are and not have any expectations of them. Expectations reduce joy!
However, for yourself you need to have expectations, otherwise you may not improve and become better!
Life is not about retiring to a familiar, peaceful and comforting space! A ship was not meant to remain at the harbour, but journey through the waves and the weather which are sometimes rough and other times smooth. We are all in this journey in different parts of the ocean and meditation helps the ship to remain in balance as you encounter tough and painful circumstances.
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Question 2: I have been in a relationship for about 13 years. We’ve been married for 10.
I have had a tough past and I have been working on releasing trauma, recovering from addictions, working on emotional and spiritual growth. My husband understands my interest but is not involved in any of these topics himself. He is quite closed off emotionally and while he tries his best, he is not able to interact in any other way than strictly rational. As a highly sensitive, intuitive and empathetic person myself, this is very difficult.
As I have been growing over the last few years, I have started to notice patterns and behaviors in our relationship that are not healthy. We never discuss our relationship or emotions. Whenever I try this, he turns the conversation to focus on me and it’s always my issues and problems being discussed. I do not feel emotionally connected to him.
In the past, I think I was happy with this because I didn’t have to look into my traumatic past. But since I chose to work on that, I am struggling with his stonewalling. I do not feel seen emotionally. As a result, I feel I am closing off from him as well.
I have started to realize he is very controlling and anxious, although he will never admit this. He never shares how he feels.
But he does a lot of practical things to help me out in daily life. Seemingly, we have a great life. Lovely home, steady income. No kids (by choice). But I am so unhappy. I am not creating anymore, I used to be a cheerful person, now I’m just sad and negative all the time.
In short, I feel trapped. I feel imprisoned and while I want to get out and claim my own space, I can’t seem to do it. It might be fear because I have no family and I would be alone. On the other hand, I crave finally having freedom and being able to breathe.
I have been looking within, working with the imprisoned feeling, working on inner peace and empowerment. I am trying to hold faith, trust the process and knowing that the time will come, but at the same time I am afraid I am being too passive and I am seeing my life passing by.

Answer 2: I fully understand what you are going through and every circumstance is there to prod you into making a choice to either “wake up” further or remain where you are!
I noticed that in your path of spiritual growth, friendships are missing or maybe you didn’t mention them. Warmth of friendships leads to life-satisfaction. I gently urge you to either join a community of like minded people, develop further your existing friendships by sharing more time with friends or develop a new friendship with the 7 steps of friendship – know, trust, love, embrace, use, help and thank.
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Question 3: There isn’t a short way to describe how I got where I  am today or what help I think others could possibly give me but I’m willing to try and think about things in a different perspective.
I left Germany when I was 21 leaving behind all my family for a new life in New Zealand. I had 2 beautiful children to my first husband there, leaving him after 10 years of domestic violence.
I found my soulmate there and he raised my children for 14 years. I lost him in 2011 to cancer. I was devastated and completely lost it for a while.
I met some one new who everyone else hated and two years into our relationship he was arrested. I listened to his story and stood by him, went into witness protection. We came back to Germany to be safe. At first I was working in Germany but then my mother was diagnosed with dementia and I moved in with her so I could help take care of my parents.
He left for New Zealand for his court case two years ago and never returned.
I have been back to New Zealand twice to see my kids who are adults now but my heart is torn. My mother has gone into a home for respite care during the Corona virus outbreak due to aggressive behaviour of my father having put him in hospital.
It's just awful. I’m trying hard to pull myself together and be there for my parents and I know now I can’t go home to New Zealand for the time being. I never thought I would have to face this alone and feel very abandoned by the person I stood by. Despite his past I believed him to be good at heart.
I have thought many times that I wasn’t in a good place when we met and maybe my judgement was off. I have tried to forget the whole episode but he does contact me occasionally and it completely sends me off the rails again.
I believe my biggest problem is that I never thought I would be back in my home town. I left for a reason - a better life. To find myself back here, and worse, alone, is soul destroying.
Two weeks to pull my self together for when my mother comes back home and I will be looking after her and my father 24x7.  I have been caring for them now two years with my sister and we are both worn out. It sounds so callous and I love my parents but should I be giving up making a life for myself in order to care of them?
I’ve made a mess of it all so far and am at a loss. I can pull my girl socks up and get on with it but how do I get back some control in my own life?

Answer 3: You have been through a lot and that makes one stronger and not weaker!
I fully understand that some of the circumstances you have been through can throw you off balance physically, emotionally and mentally and then, it is only the overarching calmness of spirit that can bring you back to balance.
I would recommend daily meditation, prayer and exercise for the moment and the Corona lock-down is a great opportunity to get onto an online learning platform for knowing more about them.
It’s good to be self-sufficient materially and I recommend that you ask yourself 3 questions:
1. What do I love doing?
2. What do my friends think I am great at?
3. What does the world need?
The common points of your answers will give you a way forward to prosper.
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Question 4: After a lifetime of unhappiness in an emotionally dysfunctional family, and after my parents died, having that continue with my only 2 siblings (twins) who were constantly judgmental, critical and unsupportive, I have finally “had it”.  And though walking away from the only remaining blood family I had on earth was not what I would have ever chosen, I have finally, with great difficulty, walked away at the age of 65.  Throughout my life, I never had the courage to confront the sibling who was most cruel emotionally (he can be very abrasive, & also, in one instance in our teens, was physically & verbally abusive to our mother).  But recently I wrote a respectful but very honest, open letter, explaining my reasons, and assuring him that I wasn’t angry, still loved him & would be there if he ever needed my help.  And that there was never anything I wanted worse in life than for us to not get along.  It’s been a month now, & no reply or other communication from him since.  The other sibling has now also ceased communication, and barely responds when I attempt the same.  In one way, walking away has been massively freeing & healing.  Yet sometimes I still have feelings of “did I handle this in the best way” and “is there more that I can do”.  And the sadness of having no real blood family now is very difficult at times.  What makes it especially complicated is that in spite of the brother’s verbal abuse, he was often helpful to me with home improvement tasks, etc., also taking me to Emergency Room (ER) twice in recent years, and even staying with me all night there once.  Yet (aside from the ER trips) my time with him was always at a heavy emotional price.  Any time he was helping me with a project, he was also being very critical, condescending & disrespectful – and never had a positive word for me, EVER.
I was constantly bewildered as to where I stood with him.  Still, since I never confronted him, I can’t help wonder if maybe he just didn’t realize what he was doing.  I’m feeling very unsure at this point, as to whether it’s worth trying to have any further conversation with him.
So lately I have pondered 3 questions:
1) Should I visit my brother & ask if he has anything to say to me, and/or if he has any interest in my being in his life.
2) Should I try to explain things to my sister, who has no clue of the kind of things he has said/done, & refuses to believe her twin could be capable of such.  After one brief attempt on my part, she basically accused me of “overreacting to sibling rivalry” (far from true; it wasn’t about disagreements, it was about put-downs.  And for the record, I never once put him down or treated him with disrespect).  She has also quite adamantly in the past stated, “don’t write me any more letters, I can’t deal with them” (although to my knowledge I only wrote one letter about family issues, which was as kind and respectful as I could possibly make it).  Instead of seeing my letter as an attempt at open honesty & a cry for help, she accused me of “drama and bad attitude”.
3) Should I send my sister a short note just saying I’m sorry for the misunderstandings, sorry I could never quite ‘measure up’, that I love her & am there for her if she ever needs my help.
I sincerely appreciate any insight into this matter, as this has been the most difficult cross I have had to bear in my life.

Answer 4: I sympathize with what you have been going through with your siblings and so far you have acted in the best possible way to have an amicable relationship.
Since it hasn’t worked out, perhaps you are being forced by God to go within and find your sibling and mate there. So turn towards daily meditation.

Meditation also has mysterious ways of connecting you back with people who have been estranged. But you just have to let go about when it will happen.
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Covid-19 Framework for Leaders and Policy Makers

A. WHY do you need a Covid-19 Framework for Leaders and Policy Makers ?

To reduce deaths due to Covid-19 and yet keep the economy rolling.


B. HOW do you reduce deaths due to Covid-19 and yet keep the economy rolling?

For Public:

1. Distancing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to be used
2. Digital Contact Tracing to be used to identify and guide those who came in contact with a Covid-19 positive patient
3. Sanitisers to be used as per SOP
4. Masks to be used as per SOP
5. Personal Protective Equipment to be used as per SOP
6. Behaviour training and monitoring with video cameras and re-training those who are making mistakes
7. Immunity building tips
8. Goods to be received at a premise as per SOP
9. Persons to enter a premise as per SOP

For Workplace:

• SOPs
• Enabling work form home
• Enabling learn from home

Link - Toyota Restart Manual for Covid-19

For Public Transport:

• SOPs

For Hospitals and Quarantine Centres:

• SOPs

C. WHAT do you do for making the public safe especially at workplaces, on public transport, hospitals and quarantine centres and at the same time keep the economy rolling?

1. Building manufacture and supply chain for Covid prevention and Covid healing items
2. Building manufacture and supply chain for essential items
3. Building manufacture and supply chain for economically crucial items
4. Building an easy to use digital pass system for essential movement of goods and persons
5. Beat policing and check posts for security and checking unauthorized movement
6. Digital contact tracing on mobile phone to be developed and promoted
7. Preparing SOPs with brainstorming of experts and publishing them
8. R&D and innovation to be encouraged
9. Building Covid-19 quarantine centres and speciality hospital capacity
10. Building Covid-19 Testing capacity
11. Data Collection and Analytics for decision making
12. Building a Covid-19 knowledge sharing digital platform for sharing and discussion of new methods tried and tested by experts in wellness, engineering, economy and environmental sustainability

D. A HUMANE APPROACH

1. Encourage systems for distributing food to the needy
2. Create donation funds for Covid-19 social responsibility projects
3. Create campaigns for removing stigmas attached to Covid-19 positive people
4. Do "Direct Bank Transfers" to people in view of loss of income
5. Provide low interest rate loans and loan moratoriums to people and organisations to tide over the loss of income caused by Covid-19
6. Talk to your employees to come to an amicable way forward during Covid-19

To all the leaders out there, here are 7 Cs for you during the Corona pandemic - 

Be calm, confident, communicative, collaborative, compassionate, curious and cautious.

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Covid-19 Policy Guidelines for Policy Makers, Influencers and Industrialists

Covid-19 is here to stay till a vaccine is discovered and tested by our great scientists.

In order that we all get cracking to start work in new and safe ways, policy makers, influencers and industrialists must immediately issue guidelines for the same in view of the threats posed by the Corona virus.

3 key important points to be looked into in the wake of Covid-19 are:

1. Precautions
2. Economy
3. Environment

1. Precautions: For the time being, an important thing that we can do is to take precautions to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus and build policies for the same.

At the government level, the best method is quarantine of likely infected persons and allowing them to leave after 14 days if not infected and treating infected persons in self-isolation or special Covid-19 hospitals till they are free from the Covid-19 infection. We must ensure that the experience of people in quarantine centres and Covid-19 hospitals should be one of being cared for with empathy and one should not get a feeling of being herded into anyone of them.

For individuals, governments should issue and circulate guidelines to take simple precautions such as building immunity, wearing masks, social distancing of minimum 6 feet, and washing hands with soap or sanitizers at regular intervals. For higher risk individuals at places such as hospitals, quarantine centres and airports, full Personal Protective Equipment needs to be worn by their personnel.

2. Economy: We need to kick start the economy as fast as possible so that at least bread if not butter can be afforded by workers. Voluntary and forced lock-downs during the Covid-19 pandemic have severely strained cash flows that drive the economy.

As a head of an organisation, you should enforce the Covid-19 standard operating procedures and protocols of working at a common workplace and get to work. Here’s a link to download an intelligent PDF document prepared by Toyota to restart manufacturing, from which you can pick up guidelines applicable to your organisation -
Toyota Restart Manual

“Work From Home” should be encouraged wherever possible, such as in advisory work, digital work and cottage industry.

Governments must bring more money into circulation to reboot the economy and utilise it for low interest loan distribution to farmers and entrepreneurs, and earmark a substantial portion for green infrastructure development projects.

3. Environment & well-being: Covid-19 has made us experience the pleasurable side of Nature with chirping birds, clean air to breathe and a blue sky to see. Every policy maker, lobbyist and industrialist must advocate lean and green methods of doing work at every level. This has been an important message of Covid-19 to humanity. The human race is not the “monarch” of the planet but vulnerable to Nature. The Corona virus has given a rap on our knuckles on behalf of Nature to change our ways and change what we imagine economic development and progress to mean as a race. Gross National Product may not be the best measure of our progress so try considering other parameters such as Gross National Happiness with its four pillars below which contribute to well-being and life satisfaction:

• Sustainable and equitable socio-economic development
• Environmental conservation
• Preservation and promotion of culture
• Good governance

I believe that if we follow the above advice, then very soon the earth will become a better place to live in.

Inclusive prosperity is the way to global harmony

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6 things to realise as an aftermath of the "Corona Virus" and Make Earth Great Again - #MEGA

Covid-19 has affected the life of each one of us. Our fellow human beings are dying by the thousands as a result of the Corona virus. Seeing the pitiable state of the world, those who may have been hard-hearted before are waking up to their compassionate and empathetic side within.

You need to notice the changes in your life forced by Nature through its messenger - the Corona virus, and you need to realise the beneficial impact these changes will have on earth if you continue with them.

6 things to realise as an aftermath of the "Corona Virus" 

1. Are you realising just how wasteful our over-consumption has been and that without venturing out for a shopping spree or for a lavish meal you have almost everything to keep you sustained?
2. Are you noticing how greater focus on your family and more time to receive your family’s warmth is giving deeper levels of life satisfaction than before?
3. Are you noticing that you are no longer in a rush to reach your office in time or to complete a job before a deadline leading to your creativity and productivity being higher than before?
4. Are you realising that you don’t necessarily have to travel to meet your friends and colleagues and that they are just a video call away?
5. Are you realising that cinema watched at home may be more satisfying than that watched in a movie hall?
6. Are you feeling like learning something new from home to live an upgraded life?

The entire planet is reevaluating life and how we live and work as a result of the threat to life posed by Covid-19. The Corona virus has brought in a new Axial Age where we are seeing major pivots happen right in front of our eyes. Here are 6 things it is forcing you to do: 

• It is forcing you to adopt ways that are lean and green.
• It is forcing you to introspect and reflect on new paradigms for economic development.
• It is forcing you to think with a global perspective and act with a local perspective.
• It is forcing you to accept that the human race is not the "monarch" of the planet but vulnerable to Nature and making you grateful, for the abundance you enjoyed before Covid-19; for the air you breathe which is free unlike the air from a ventilator; and for your survival.
• It is forcing you to have a humane approach to life.
• It is forcing you not to race but to experience the grace of a slower pace. . .

What does it mean to adapt to new ways?

You need to understand that even when our great scientists find a cure for the Corona virus and its threat to life diminishes, you have to continue with the lifestyle changes you made so that we together make the earth into a happy and flourishing planet. The literal meaning of “Corona” is silver lining - a negative occurrence leading to a positive outcome. A silver lining will be visible on earth only if you obey the “commands” of the Corona virus like a soldier reporting for duty!

Wishing you and the planet from the bottom of my heart, good health and well-being...

Make Earth Great Again - #MEGA

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