Gratefulness Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/gratefulness/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-World-Moms-Network-Logo-512-125x125.jpg Gratefulness Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/gratefulness/ 32 32 Lumbini, Nepal: Buddha’s Birthplace, What Remains Now and the Ethos of the Heart https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:02:34 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35218 THE BIRTH OF Siddhārtha Gautama 6th Century BC: The old nurse looked at her radiant Queen, Maya Devi. She still had the same sweet smile on her face, and nothing seemed to have changed since the day she was born, the day the old nurse picked her up as an infant. Pregnancy only made her […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/feed/ 6 A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-day-giving-givingtuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35006 Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with holiday shopping. After the frenzied commercialism of Black Friday sales (that now […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/feed/ 1 World Voice: Kindness Matters https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/04/26/world-voice-kindness-matters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-voice-kindness-matters https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/04/26/world-voice-kindness-matters/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2017 05:00:35 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34462 My daughters and I recently started watching a new Netflix series called “The Kindness Diaries”. This documentary-style series follows a man, Leon, who travels around the world simply relying on the kindness of strangers. And, he finds kindness in the most desperate of circumstances. Families who can barely feed their children, provide him with food […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/04/26/world-voice-kindness-matters/feed/ 2 An Interview with Victor Kannan. Part II https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/02/10/interview-victor-kannan-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-victor-kannan-part-ii https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/02/10/interview-victor-kannan-part-ii/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:30:01 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=33865 This is part II of the two-part interview with Victor Kannan. Part I is also on World Moms Network’s blog, and some of Mr. Kannan’s own written work can be found Here and Here. PART II: S: When you observe today’s youth, from a child of about 8 years to early 20s, what are some […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/02/10/interview-victor-kannan-part-ii/feed/ 0 An Interview with Victor Kannan. Part I https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/01/13/interview-victor-kannan-part/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-victor-kannan-part https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/01/13/interview-victor-kannan-part/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:56:27 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=33863 2017. My, how time flies!  In 2010 in the office of an amazing human being, I read a sign that said: ‘Time flies like arrows; fruit flies like bananas’. I didn’t get it when I read it, but when I did it stuck with me. I was reminded of this when thinking over my interview […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/01/13/interview-victor-kannan-part/feed/ 4 GLOW: #Heartfulness Webinar – Taking Time for Ourselves by Lorraine McLoughlin https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/30/glow-heartfulness-webinar-taking-time-lorraine-mcloughlin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glow-heartfulness-webinar-taking-time-lorraine-mcloughlin https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/30/glow-heartfulness-webinar-taking-time-lorraine-mcloughlin/#respond Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:00:18 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=33294 World Moms Network and the Heartfulness Institute have partnered to bring forth a series of online monthly webinar workshops  for women called GLOW which stands for ‘Genuine Loving Outstanding Women’. This helps women everywhere to learn and practice Heartfulness meditation from the comfort of their homes or workplace. The aim is to help women integrate meditation into their […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/30/glow-heartfulness-webinar-taking-time-lorraine-mcloughlin/feed/ 0 USA: Haiti in the Wake of Hurricane Matthew https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/14/the-prince-wails-at-sea-haiti-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-matthew/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-prince-wails-at-sea-haiti-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-matthew https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/14/the-prince-wails-at-sea-haiti-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-matthew/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2016 05:30:41 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=33130 62,000 people. That is the estimated number of Haitians who are still displaced from the 7.0 earthquake that shook Haiti in January 2010; a heartbreaking disaster that claimed over 200,000 lives and displaced as many as 3 million people. Kendy, Naomie, Emilien, Mrs. Jean-Donald Elouse’s aunt Elouse’s four cousins ….this is only 1% of the […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/14/the-prince-wails-at-sea-haiti-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-matthew/feed/ 0 GLOW: #Heartfulness – Inspiration Through Meditation by #WorldMom Sophia https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/04/glow-heartfulness-inspiration-meditation-worldmom-sophia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glow-heartfulness-inspiration-meditation-worldmom-sophia https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/04/glow-heartfulness-inspiration-meditation-worldmom-sophia/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:55:31 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=33039 I ask my one year old son: “Who is Wesley?” His eyes brighten up as he remembers this question, and he happily and proudly answers “I”. He seems happy and proud because he knows our reaction to his showings of intelligence; not because he really understands that he is … himself. That seems to be […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/10/04/glow-heartfulness-inspiration-meditation-worldmom-sophia/feed/ 4 USA: Moving On – Taking Brain and Heart Along https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/09/16/moving-on-taking-brain-and-heart-along/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moving-on-taking-brain-and-heart-along https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/09/16/moving-on-taking-brain-and-heart-along/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2016 05:00:38 +0000 http://www.worldmomsblog.com/?p=32317 The last time I saw my father was in March 1991. In July 2016, after 25 years and many more questions, I finally saw him again. Leading up to the day he was coming, I kept wondering what it would be like to see him after so long. Would we both cry? Would I be […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/09/16/moving-on-taking-brain-and-heart-along/feed/ 9 INDIA: Nishkaam Karma and Baggage free Parenting https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/07/13/india-nishkaam-karma-baggage-free-parenting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=india-nishkaam-karma-baggage-free-parenting https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2016/07/13/india-nishkaam-karma-baggage-free-parenting/#respond Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:00:51 +0000 http://www.worldmomsblog.com/?p=32167 Baggage-Free Parenting From the pages of a mother’s diary It’s never easy for a mother to confess to her child that she has found herself lacking. Nevertheless we all know that acceptance of a situation allows insight and wisdom to change and evolve. I used to be an investment banker, a trainer and a teacher […]

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