My Social Commentary

Book 1991-93     Page 1

I was watching a program on television showing under aged teenagers drinking and drug taking it was horrifying to know the children of today are destroying their young bodies because of this stupid recession.

It’s time Australians did something to help the next generation or there will be none!     Paying them the dole because of the lack of job opportunities makes life seem incredibly boring to them. They seem to lose their motivation and go on binge drinking to extremes, if it’s not alcohol, it’s drug taking causing an even greater problem, death   .

Looking at this from a mother’s point of view, in our economic situation, where both parents have to work, how about lowering your retirement age for men and women creating more jobs for our children. Not paying then the dole would make them more aware of jobseeking, or even paying mothers instead to stay at home, creating less stress in the family circle and giving them time to motivate the children.

Our children have only one life to live and they seem to want to destroy it at an early age. So come on Australians let us get behind our children and start building up a better country one that they can believe in.

Barbara Fraser    1991

Book 1991-93      Page 2

I believe with such a fast-changing technological world, young children should be taught to meditate at school to help them cope with the stress of the future. To help children learn to relax at a young age can make them aware of the person that they are and their potential which is essential later on in life. It can help them be creative, give them a more relaxed state for learning and inner vision for goal achieving.

Relaxation for Children

close the eyes gently, take slow natural breaths. Surround yourself with white light and thank God with a little prayer. (Then visualise with your mind).

As you breathe imagine yourself breathing in the white light which is energy making your body feel calm and peaceful and totally relaxed. With your mind imagine yourself in a place that you enjoy, like down by the beach sitting on the sand feeling the warmth of the sun and watching the waves gently roll in and out.

Or imagine yourself in the yacht that’s drifting by and enjoying a day sailing out to sea ever so calm. Or imagine yourself walking along the sand and feeling the warm sand squeezing between your toes, picking up the unusual beautiful shells as you walk and breathing the fresh air making your mind feel totally relaxed.

Walk to the rocks and examine the rock pools with the beautiful coloured shells and coral, find a large rock to sit on the lookout to the great expanse of deep blue sea and feel totally relaxed.

Come back slowly.

Barbara Fraser    1991

Book 1991-93      Page 3

The Australian male and what they should learn about themselves to understand a woman

Why do men fear women and their own emotions?

Because they don’t know how to let go of their conditioned macho image and give way to the feminine side of themselves for fear of called a sissy or ridiculed by their mates. They tend to build up this strong male ego that’s afraid of letting go emotions.

Men are taught to be strong physically and emotionally like being the breadwinners and dominating partner in both work and family matters.

This is where it is wrong, men deny themselves the luxury of expressing and letting go there feeling especially in marriage, that’s why marriages are breaking down, because of their lack of understanding they are denying women, who are in touch with their own sensual and emotional feelings, the right to express themselves.

Men seem to need to learn how to love and relate to a woman, to learn more about women and less about their mates, this could help younger couples last a lot longer in their relationships than they appear to be at the moment.

Men need to let go that macho male image and let themselves feel the emotions that are missing from their lives, they don’t seem to know what a woman needs, to be loved. It’s the little things that count.

Barbara Fraser    1991

Book 1991-93      Page 4

Your Mind

Your mind creates your reality

Don’t let it be narrow

You can choose to accept this or not

You can be conscious of it and get your mind working for you, or you can ignore it and allow it to work in the ways that will hinder you and hold you back.

But your mind will always and forever be creating your reality.

There are more things in heaven and earth then our dreamed of by mere mortal men                                               

Shakespeare

Consciousness creates reality and you create consciousness.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

By Barbara Fraser       1991