AFFIRMATION OF BASIC RIGHTS

AFFIRMATION  OF  BASIC  RIGHTS

o     Nobody has the right to tell me what to think , what to feel or what to do .

o     I have a right to have my own thoughts , to have my own feelings , to have my own values , and to have my own beliefs .

o     Nobody can force me to tell them about my personal life .

o     I have a right to decide what I want to tell others about my personal life .

o     If people are rude to me , I have the right to ask them to stop being rude . I also have the right to avoid them .

o     I have a need and right to love myself , to respect myself , to be fully self-expressed , and to have a straight talk with people .

o     I don’t tell others what’s right for them .

o     I have the right to do whatever I want as long as I am not violating the right of anyone else .

o     I have a right to be who I am and to live my own life in my own way whether others like it or not .

o     I accept that I have a right to commit mistakes --- otherwise I can’t learn and grow .

o     I don’t feel guilty for not being perfect .

o     I don’t want to ‘ look good ’ . I want to ‘ be good ’ to people .

o     I take my own decisions .

o     I understand that nobody is responsible for me . I am responsible for my own life .

o     I am a divine child of God .

o     I am responsible to be true to myself and to be true to others .

o     I am safe in the hands of God !

GIVING IS DIVINE

                  GIVING   IS   DIVINE
                                             
                                                            by  S.K.SENGUPTA

                                                                             

o       Be responsible in distributing an aid .

o       Understand the needs of the other person . Giving just as you wish is not a good idea .                                                                                                         Also when you help , never make the other person feel small or obligated .                                                                                                                                    Keep also in mind to pack a little of  you and your love  with the gift .

o       Real caring  is not a passing flush of emotion . Real caring is costly . It means weeping with those who weep . It means doing something after we have said , “I’m sorry .” The challenge is to  give  whatever may be possible in terms of time , efforts and resources .

While you help , keep this in mind  :

o       Think deeply for others .

o       Give them your time .

o       Give them space .

o       Give them your understanding . Give them your forgiveness . Give them your mercy .

o        Give them a dream .

o       Give them  value   in whatever you are doing for them .

o       Give them your disciplined and cultured behaviour .

o       Coach them . Work hard so that you can stand for them as an example .

o       Be slim , trim , and  well-groomed for them . Give them a good appearance .

Seven types of  giving   :

             I.      Giving for personal benefit .

          II.      Giving with the belief that it will release you from your sins .

       III.      Giving to show-off and to satisfy your ego .

     IV.      Giving because others are giving and you will feel ashamed  not  to give .

        V.      Giving thoughtlessly .

     VI.      Giving because you feel it is your duty . That is  moral  giving .

  VII.      Giving out of pure love for the other person in the spirit of Jesus . That is  spiritual  giving .

VOICE EXERCISE FOR VOWELS

VOICE  EXERCISE  FOR  VOWELS

How lively , spirited and clear your speech is depends on how your vocal organs produce the sound of words .

Though consonants give meaning and definition to words , it is the vowels which contain your vocal tone , which actually represent your voice . So shape your lips nicely as you pronounce the vowels .

Here are two exercises for practice . Breathe deep , feel the beauty of the poems , and then read slowly and with effect .

Exercise Number 1

Lull me to sleep , ye winds , whose fitful sound

Seems from some faint Aeolian harpstring caught ;

Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought

As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound

The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound ;

For I am weary , and am overwrought

With too much toil , with too much care distraught ,

And with the iron crown of anguish crowned .

Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek ,

O peaceful sleep ! until from pain released

I breathe again uninterrupted breath !

Ah , with what subtile meaning did the Greek

Call thee the lesser mystery at the feast

Whereof the greater mystery is death !

Exercise Number 2

The splendour falls on castle walls

And snowy summits old in story :

The long light shakes across the lakes

And the wild cataract leaps in glory .

Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying ,

Blow , bugle ; answer , echoes , dying , dying , dying .

O hark , O hear ! How thin and clear ,

And thinner , clearer , farther going !

O sweet and far from cliff and scar

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing !

Blow , let us hear the purple glens replying :

Blow , bugle ; answer , echoes , dying , dying , dying .

O love , they die in yon rich sky ,

They faint on hill or field or river :

Our echoes roll from soul to soul ,

And grow for ever and for ever .

Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying ,

And answer , echoes , answer , dying , dying , dying .

VOICE EXERCISE FOR SONORITY

VOICE  EXERCISE  FOR SONORITY

How lively , spirited and clear your speech is depends on how your vocal organs produce the sound of words .

Here are two exercises to help you develop a deep and sonorous voice .

 Exercise Number 1

Mind you mend my mound.

Many prime ministers mean merely money-making.

Nine nice nuts in a neat green net.

The dragon will come when he hears the drum.

Mamie met a monkey munching melons.

Soon the moon will loom through the misty gloom .

Exercise Number 2

“ When a wind from the lands they had ruined awoke from sleep ,

And the water began to heave and the weather to moan ,

And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew ,

And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew ,

Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags ,

And the whole sea plunged and fell ,

On the shot-shtter’d navy of Spain . ”

VOICE EXERCISE FOR FORWARD QUALITY OF TONE

VOICE  EXERCISE  FOR  FORWARD  QUALITY  OF  TONE

How lively , spirited and clear your speech is depends on how your vocal organs produce the sound of words .

Here is an exercise to help you bring your lips into play  and develop a well-poised voice .

Exercise

Plump puffins perch upon pine palings and pick pink pippins .

Peter Potter pulled a pile of pink and purple poppies .

Bob Becket’s big baby bounces and bawls .

Feathers flying fast fall freely from fluttering festoons .

Theophilus thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb .

Irish shamrocks shine softly through the shadows of the marsh and the shelter of the shrine .

Shell-fish and shrimps should always be fresh .

The view of the valley is extensive and attractive .

Betty bought a bit of butter .The bit of butter Betty bought was bitter . Said Betty : “If I buy a bit of better butter it will make my batter better .” So Betty bought a bit of better butter and her batter was better .

VOICE EXERCISE FOR CONSONANTS

VOICE  EXERCISE  FOR  CONSONANTS

How lively , spirited and clear your speech is depends on how your vocal organs produce the sound of words .

Here are two exercises to help you improve the articulation of consonants . Use your tongue energetically. Be slow and careful when you begin. As you grow comfortable, you may increase the speed of reading .

Exercise  Number  1

Betty bought a bit of butter .

The bit of butter Betty bought was bitter .

So Betty bought a bit of better butter .

Exercise Number 2

Get out of that at once.

In and out and around about.

That is not at all what I want you to do.

Wait a minute or two till it is time to go.

It is just a bit at a time that counts.

What rain! Just hear how it falls Pitter-patter, clitter-clatter on the sooty window-pane .

He sent us a chest of tip-top tea , tied up tight with an old bit of string .

APTITUDE AND ATTITUDE FOR ALTITUDE (Globally Broadcasted Radio-Talk : COPYRIGHT RESERVED )

APTITUDE AND ATTITUDE FOR ALTITUDE

by  S.K.SENGUPTA    

To rise in life , we need to know two points : point A , that is where we are , and point B , that is where we want to reach . If I know that I am in Paris and I want to reach New York , then I can plan my trip . So , once I know what I precisely want to achieve in my life , I can begin to take necessary steps to reach there . I will need tools for my journey , and we all have the same three tools : tool number one is Time , tool number two is Human Endeavour , and tool number three is Resources that include money . We must use our resources wisely , so that with least inputs we can achieve maximum results . For example , let us suppose that a building is standing on seven pillars , and we have to pull it down . Now , for that , we don’t need to pull down all the seven pillars . To be effective , we only need to find out which are the one or two strategic pillars . If we pull down these strategic pillars , the whole building will crash and collapse . Therefore , once we know our goal , we have to find out the central pillars on which our success depends . Then we must focus all our might and attention to pull down these vital pillars . Once we do that , we will hit the bull’s eye . This in brief is the formula to make it big in life !

Now , this recipe for success has two main ingredients . They are Aptitude and Attitude . We need both to succeed , just like we need both our legs to walk . Let us understand each of these thoroughly one-by-one .

Let us take Aptitude first . Aptitudes are the potential abilities with which we are born . We can practice , develop and hone these inborn abilities over time . We are naturally good in doing certain things , while we are not really good in doing certain other things . This is true for all of us . This we must recognize and acknowledge for suceess .

A donkey cannot swim like a duck . A zebra cannot fly like a parrot . An elephant cannot run as fast as a cheetah .

A boy , who was a brilliant dancer , was forced to join an engineering course by family and friends . Unable to cope with studies , syllabus , and classes , he began to lose confidence in himself . Finally he failed and went into a serious clinical depression .

M.F.Hussein would not be so good if he were a cricketer . Pandit Ravi Shankar would not be a world-famous economist . Sachin Tendulkar would not be a celebrity if he were a banker .

Let us now look at Attitude . It is a state-of-mind . It makes a man go on and on through break-downs till he achieves a breakthrough . Attitude is how one works and proceeds towards his goal . Attitude is a way of looking at things .

As a story goes , long many years ago , a shoe company sent an employee to an African country . He was supposed to study the market-potential for the company in that country . After a thorough survey the employee reported back  : “ There is no market-potential here . Nobody in this country wears shoes .”

After a gap of a few years , another employee was again sent to the African country by the shoe-company to check whether any market-potential had developed in the meanwhile . The second employee carried out a detailed survey again and reported back : “ I have surveyed very carefully . Nobody here wears shoes , nor do they know anything about it . It is a virgin land for our company . There is no competition . Once we demonstrate the benefits of wearing a shoe to these people , there is a full hundred percent potential for our company to market and sell our foot-wear . ” A difference in attitude could spell the difference between success and failure !

In his celebrated autobiography Babarnama , Mughal Emperor Babar says : “ Wars are not won by weapons , wars are won by indomitable courage . ” Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was working twenty hours a day while he was leading Indian National Army for India’s independence . In those times ,  once he said : “ I must die , so that India may live ! ”

To scale great heights in life , we need both aptitude and attitude . We need to know what we love to do , what we can do well , and what we want to become in our life . Once we have decided that point B of our life , we need to back it up with a bull-dog determination and with full-blooded strategic action . Aptitudes and talents blossom to their full potential under a winning and unyielding attitude !

Wright brothers invented the aeroplane . They knew what they were doing , what they wanted to do , and they knew that they were competent . Besides , they were burning with a passion to achieve that could not be extinguished . Einstein’s aptitude for his work was beyond any question . Moreover , he applied himself ceaselessly and single-mindedly to whatever he was doing . Once he said : “  The stuff that genius is made of is the ability to stake and focus everything that one has on one point . ”

Altitude in life is made of aptitude and attitude . Choose a goal that you would love to attain . Choose an activity that you are good at and that you love to do . Now go all out to acquire the great altitudes of life and the world will be yours . Our aptitudes are God’s gift to us . What we do with that will be our gift to God ! Let us not forget that we are The Almighty’s greatest creation . There is nothing that we cannot do . Great Altitudes are achieved when true aptitudes are backed by ‘never-say-die’ attitude . The greatest weapon on earth is the human soul on fire !

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