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Singing bowls #RealTOC

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Is life just yes or no? On and off? Or is life more than a binary? But what about decision making? #RealTOC

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RealToc Editorial #2

2/4/2015

Greetings!

You are receiving this because we have come across your email and we would love to grace you with our second editorial! Just a quick reminder to those who have already been hear and those who are new these editorials serve as a recap of our discussions that happen on Wednesday and provide you with links and extra info to what we discussed for your further interest.

Ghost Story Ice Breaker - For our icebreaker we turned off the lights and each went around the room saying one word each until we had a sufficient ghost story. A recap can be found on our Twitter Page @UThinkers_

After a great meditation session, we delved into the topic of the Law of Attraction and positive and negative thinking. Whether you personally believe that vibration of what you verbally echo or mentally permeate into the universe comes back onto your life or you believe you hold all power over your will or nothing even remotely close to this, we explored most possibilities as to why such thinking is popular thought. We specifically explained vibration as an energy level and took the literal physics meaning and expanded it, as well as the logistics of obtaining your goals on a personal level before pursing and acting on it. The better part of the conversation focused more on positive and negative thinking and one of the main themes of that was accepting negative thinking as natural thought in a society that pushes its people towards a mode void of negativity. In essence some people suggested that in order to successfully control one's emotions is through processes such as vibration and emotional manipulation to see the brighter part of life and thus be happier!

A lot of articles that people had referenced were mentioned and we put them on a post on our Tumblr page which can be found here, collectively we had an awesomely productive discussion and we hope you guys are excited and bring others on Wednesday nights and as always follow our social media accounts on:IG - UThinkers_Twitter - @UThinkers_

Thanks guys and have a wonderful weekend! 

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RealToc Editorial #1

1/29/2015

Greetings! You are receiving this because we have come across your email and we would love to introduce you to our very first editorial! As  reminder for those who came to our first meeting and those who are still willing to attend, these editorials will serve as a recap of what happened during our meetings, such as meditation highlights and interesting topics that came up in our discussions. This editorial will also be in a much more prettier form on our Tumblr page which is still under development but will be up in running within the few coming days. Now on with the editorial !

Meditation - Led by President Jessica, we engaged in a very relaxing meaningful first meditation that lasted a little over 15 minutes even though people said they'd have trouble lasting even 5! If anyone has any ideas how the meditation could be improved or have any music choices they would like to meditate to please do not hesitate to let us know. We observed everybody engaged and hope you all enjoyed it. Remember this org is to serve YOU and if you can think of anything that would help the group dynamic be our guest ! Discussion - In our discussion which didn't have a necessarily have a topic this week which is fine, sort of gravitated around alcohol and how E&J Brandy when mixed with lemonade killed the taste of the alcohol and made it much more consumable. Amidst the talk of how boozed we can get, before our meeting we came across an Eric Thomas quote thanks to Donald which is: "Innovation is praised; execution is worshipped." which we found really profound before the meeting began and that is how we wish and will strive to execute the best possible programs and discussions for our members that help make it something that is truly for those who continue to support our mission. We also can't forget how we have members in our ranks who are members of fraternities! Broke Phi Broke is now taking applications for admission with the only requirement being that you must be on the struggle. Just kidding ! But I realize this is a long first editorial and some comic relief was needed. To reiterate a few logistical things: our meetings for now will reoccur in the African American Culture room in the Union (room 4.110) at 8:30p and we'll let you guys know if any changes are made to this and if you guys have any suggestions PLEASE again don't hesitate to let Jessica, Desmond or Ajah know. Thanks Guys! 

Have a great weekend!

Twitter: UThinkers_Tumblr: http://realtoc.tumblr.com/ P.S. We mentioned during the meeting about volunteering at Austin Pets Alive and mentioned that there is a cost associated with volunteering.

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Feb 4th Meeting Links

These are the links relevant to information and things that came up during our meeting yesterday. Included in this is the Austin Pets Alive Volunteer link that we mentioned at the first meeting. Feel free to browse it and let us know if you'd be intrested in volunteering here. 

Ask Teal

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritualCatalyst

good Ask Teal video on worry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avhLg3gUFlw

Austin Pets Alive Volunteer Link

http://www.austinpetsalive.org/get-involved/volunteer/

Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles, 1910:

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0304spiritpsych/030412.wattle.getting.rich.pdf

Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, 1910:

http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTAASOPMContents.html

Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind, 1926:

http://www.brainybetty.com/2007Motivation/Ernest%20Holmes%20-%20The%20Science%20of%20Mind.pdf

(I’d advise against typing “Law of attraction” on youtube and watching any subsequent propaganda videos)

Consciousness experiment on water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvzsjcBtx8

Interesting Mind-body Cracked.com article:

http://www.cracked.com/article_21932_7-creepy-things-your-mind-can-trick-your-body-into-doing.html

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