Goal Almost Reached: APP Meeting 8/5 at 6:30 PM

We Need Your Help! IMAGINE…..

Help Us Reach Our goal of $2700 to purchase 10,000 Complaint-Free Bracelets to encourage Albany to go Complaint-Free in 2015!

Hear the inspiration for this Complaint- Free Program from Will Bowen, Founder, in this inspiring Video:

After we place this order for bracelets, we can book Will Bowen to come to Albany and present a live presentation of his Complaint-Free World Program at the State University of Albany in November!!   Over 10 million of these bracelets have been distributed world wide and have inspired people to  become more focused, effective and “certifiably happier” after taking the Complaint-Free Challenge.

Please help us raise the remaining $1,975 needed to purchase the bracelets that we intend to distribute around Albany through various retailers.  We can’t book Will to speak until after we order the bracelets.   We already have $725 in donations, but we need the remaining $1,975.

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To encourage people to participate, for donations over $175, Bethany is donating a free gift of a combination coherence and subtle energy biofeedback session with a customized meditation CD for you to invoke a healing state specifically focused on your challenge based the latest intentional research.

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Let’s raise this funding quick…so that we can book Will Bowen for November.   Imagine…A Happier Albany…

Imagine if your family stopped complaining…

 Imagine if your office stopped complaining…

Imagine if Albany stopped complaining…

“If you don’t like something, change it, if you can’t change it, change your attitude-don’t complain.”      Maya Angelou

Imagine If we could positively impact the lives of everyone in our community.

Imagine If we could do this in a fun way that pulls our whole city together.

As outlandish as it sounds, that’s exactly the powerful opportunity that the Albany Peace Project team is working to provide.

To encourage people to participate in the Albany Peace Project, we are embracing Will Bowen’s wildly successful Complaint-Free World bracelet campaign.  Will explains the complete Complaint-Free program in his book, A Complaint Free World—How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted.    Bowen’s idea has been featured on Oprah, The Today Show on NBC, The ABC Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and more.

This program inspires people to go  21 consecutive days without complaining (which takes the average person 4-8 months).   The program will be accompanied by a bracelet that we are distributing throughout Albany.  The bracelets will be an outer representation of inner transformation.  For more information please visit: http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org and http://www.willbowen.com.

The impetus for distributing the bracelets is to inspire people to make positive changes in their inner life.  These inner efforts strongly magnify the power of a meditation practice to promote inner peace and happiness.

These bracelets are NOT fashion statements, they are tools.  

They are used to help us become more aware of our complaining patterns as we switch the bracelet from arm to arm each time we complain.  The goal is to keep the bracelet on the same arm for 21 days. (See a brief summary of the program below)

We expect to start with approximately 1500 bracelets, and utilize some of them to inspire businesses to offer additional funding support.  Please consider approaching your organization to see if they are interested in being a sponsor.  This is actually a lot of fun when it is approached as a group.  Listen to this endorsement already:

“By the way, I have started complain free Wednesdays at work.  For every complaint, we put a quarter in a cup!  It has been a blast today!!!”  Ann Becker

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Our hope is to get 10,000 bracelets circulated in Albany within the next 6 months. Imagine Albany, NY a Happier City!   Please consider helping us start the wave of happiness by contributing to our first goal.

You can also support us, by participating in the Albany Peace Project which simply involves meditating to generate peace and happiness each day in January.   This historic research is not only empowers people to not only live happier lives, but also to feel that voting with their heart “counts” as we document people uplifting their communities through focused in intention of peace.

We are still gathering the initial funding to obtain the first batch of bracelets.

If you are interested in obtaining bracelets, please let us know by using the form below.

Also, please consider donating to the bracelet campaign by donating to our GoFundMe Campaign, or using the donate button at the top of this page.

Bracelets will packaged individually with a card directing people to the AlbanyPeaceProject.com website to encourage people to participate in APP for January 2016.

These bracelets will go further into the community than we can.  

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Start Becoming Happier Now By Following These Complaint-Free Guidelines

1. Begin to wear the complaint-free bracelet on either arm.                                                           Goal: keep the bracelet on one arm for 21 days in a row.
2. If you catch yourself complaining, gossiping or criticizing, move the bracelet to the other wrist and begin again.
3. If you speak it, it counts.  Start over.  Thoughts are free!
4. Stay with it!  It may take many months to reach 21 consecutive days.  It takes the average person 4 to 8 months to complete the 21 days.

To learn how to obtain your bracelets(s), please use the contact form below.

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Please forward to anyone you think would be interested.

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APP Volunteer Meeting – Wed. 4/27/16 at 7:00 PM Unity Church

Hey Everyone.
This year the Albany Peace Project/Numinous has set ambitious goals to help inspire peace in Albany.

If you are interested in volunteering with a group of light hearted good natured people who love to laugh, and who understand that peace is just a few thoughts away, please come out this Wednesday evening April 27 at 7:00 PM at the Unity Church of Albany and add your insights.  Please review the list below and see where your talents fit!  The first four items need immediate attention.

Interfaith Prayer Study Committee

Help is needed to gather 2500 people of faith who are willing to do a 15 minute prayer meditation for peace for eight days between July 24-July 31.

Fundraising Committee Event

We have a fundraising event scheduled for 10/1 tentatively at the Unitarian Church in Albany.  Our current idea is to offer hors d’oeuvres from 6:30-8:30 PM with music and seven stations where people can learn about the various outreach functions of Numinous.

Stations:

1. Mindfulness As A Solution to Violence (MASV)
2. Albany Peace Project
3. Institute of Heartmath Coherence Software Demonstrations
4. Numinous – programs
5. Interfaith Prayer Study
6. Mindfulness For Busy People
7. Mindfulness in Schools

We need a committee to do the following to help with this event :

• organize food donations
• find printing donations
• establish a guest list.
• help organize and run the event

Marketing Committee – 

Help is needed to raise money for our new initiative Mindfulness As A Solution to Violence, where youth learn both alternatives to violence practices and also biofeedback self regulation skills that they can learn to reliably call upon to calm their nervous systems during the chaos of conflict.  We feel that this is where we can make the greatest difference toward peace in the Albany, NY area.  Businesses may want to support this initiative, because businesses often suffer the consequences of youth violence.
Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence (MASV): 

Almost 40 percent of American children were direct victims of two or more violent acts, and one in ten were victims of violence five or more times.

Without a tactical comprehensive plan to end the violence of today’s youth by activelyteaching peace the cycle of learned violence will continue permanently!!

Mindfulness as A Solution to Violence(MASV) is a strategically designed peace building program designed to finally stop the cycle of violence by teaching youth well-established alternatives to violence and self-regulating biofeedback practices.

Summary Goals

– Teach self-regulation and mindfulness skills through biofeedback technology to at-risk youth proven to reduce violent behavior and increase academic competence

– Teach Alternative To Violence (AVP) skills to at-risk youth established in Green Haven Prison over 40 years ago that have continued to positively influence inmates in hundreds of prisons. When inmates learn these skills it reduces their recidivism rates and helps offenders experience a peaceful re-entry into society.

Offering youth the opportunity to learn these skills before they become part of the juvenile system offers a huge advantage in shortening the violence cycle.  Our goal is to cultivate a group of young leaders who embody Alternative to Violence and self-regulation and mindfulness skills and train them to facilitate peer leaded group intervention programs for other at-risk youth.

Mindfulness as a Solution To Violence Program (MASV) Daily Outline
Welcome Breakfast
Introductions and ice breakers
AVP instruction
Biofeedback instruction
Lunch
AVP Instruction
Biofeedback Instruction
Summary and debriefing

MASV Group Facilitators

Bethany Gonyea, MS

For the past 22 years Bethany Gonyea has been teaching biofeedback and self-regulation skills to a wide range of populations, including young inmates at Brookwood Secure Center, a facility for juvenile offenders who, while under the age of 16, committed violent felonies and were convicted and sentenced in adult criminal court.  Brookwood Secure Center is the juvenile equivalent of a maximum security prison for adults.  Ms. Gonyea is the founder of the Albany Peace Project which was created to make self-regulation skills available to all residents in Albany,  NY.  She has also presented these concepts to the Albany Police Department and established coherence based programming for the staff at Cure Violence,  and is responsible for introducing and establishing comprehensive mindfulness programs in nine capital district public schools while consulting with several others, and more scheduled for the 2016-2017 school year.

Bernard Shuman

During his 22 years of service both in and out of prison, Bernard Shuman has spent thousands of hours volunteering his time to support others in turning away from crime, hatred, helplessness, and hopelessness, while urging them to turn toward faith, emotional healing, and offering assistance to others.  Mr. Shuman has offered over 6000 hours of teachingAlternative to Violence practices to inmates, and holds a Gold Certificate for teaching and facilitating Alternatives to Violence, the highest certification possible.  He also was trained to facilitate classes for Prisoners for AIDS Counseling and Education through Hudson Valley Community Service and ultimately enabled over 3,000 individuals to be tested for HIV infection.  Mr. Shuman has an quiet impressive unassuming presence that young people admire which is why they listen intently to what he has to say.

His motto: “Don’t make the mistakes that I made.”

Volunteers from The Albany Peace Project

Volunteers who are trained biofeedback self-regulation practices will be available to help with administrative tasks and teach biofeedback principles.
Meditation Outreach Committee

All of our efforts will make the greatest impact only if we gather 2500 meditators to participate in this research.  Please consider helping us inspire more meditators to participate both in our summer interfaith prayer research study and the January Albany Peace Project.

Other Committee areas we could use your help:

Volunteer Coordination Committee

– help organize volunteers…we have plenty of talent, we just need to keep people connected

Meditation Leader Certification Program Committee

– this program certifies people to teach the the protocol used by the Albany Peace Project to facilitate peace in Albany, NY.  When people become certified in the Albany Peace Project protocol, they feel more confident bringing meditation to their home or work environments.
Guided Meditation Video (editing/recording/posting) Committee

APP relies heavily on video.  We really need individuals who feel comfortable doing simple video editing.
Social Media Committee

– Social Media is how we have grown.  We need a group that can devise a strategic plan to help leverage the power of the internet to inspire more meditators.

Technology Committee
– Help with video editing, live streaming, webinars, etc.
Data and Analysis Committee
– help with gathering data for research

Event Committees:

Comedy and Conversation Committee

– Our first comedy event was a HUGE hit….people obviously want more spiritual comedy!  We are putting the word out for comedians who have a humorous insight about spiritual practices…we intend to offer a “last spiritual comedian standing” in the future.

A Midsummer’s Meditation Committee

Albany Peace Project Volunteer Meeting
Unity Church of Albany
April 27 at 7:00 PM

We strongly encourage you to come a half hour early and take part in Rev. Crystal Muldrow’s silent meditation taking place at 6:30 at Unity Church of Albany that same evening.  Enjoy sitting and meditating in a group to allow your own meditation to effortlessly deepen. 

Upcoming Numinous Events:

Spiritual Conversations for Men 
Unity Church of Albany-
Wednesday May 4 at 7:00 PM
Led by Glenn Hogue and Tim Moon

Come talk with “the guys” about the challenges of living spiritual concepts as a modern man.

Albany Peace Project Meditation Leader Certification Training – Part 1
Anne-Marie Serre
Wednesday 5/11/16 at 7:00 PM

Learn the science behind the protocol of the Albany Peace Project so you can feel comfortable offering it to the greater Albany community.

Worry Addiction: Why It Is Critically Important To Stop The Habit
Jerry Petell, MSW
Wednesday 5/18  at 7:00 PM

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”  Corrie Ten Boom

Kick the worry habit because you FINALLY understand the true costs of a worry addiction.

Albany Peace Project Certification Meditation Leader Training – Part 2
Anne-Marie Serre
Wednesday 5/25/16 at 7:00 PM

Learn the protocol of the Albany Peace Project so you can feel comfortable offering it to the Albany Community.

Spiritual Conversations for Men
Unity Church of Albany
Wednesday June 1 at 7:00PM
Glenn Hogue and Time Moon

Exploring the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine
Ray Crist, Founder of the Jaguar Path Shamanic and Yoga School
June 8, at 7:00 PM

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APP Meeting – Tuesday 4.26 at 6:00 Off Wolf Rd & MUCH MORE!

Hey Everyone….
Wow!  Great stuff happening for the Albany Peace Project 2016.  Please check out all four program below:

1) This Tuesday, (5.26)  we are holding the meeting off of Wolf Rd, at 4 Computer Drive West, Albany, at 6:00 PM.  We will be teleconferencing the meeting with Teri Suda, of Wauconda, Illinois who was responsible for inspiring the entire town of Wauconda to go “Complaint-Free” based on the program created by Will Bowen, author of the “Complaint-Free” world.

Will has been on Oprah and traveled the world teaching people how to go 21 days without complaining (which takes the average person 4-8 months).  The program will be accompanied by a bracelet that we are distributing throughout Albany.  The bracelets will be an outer representation of inner transformation.  The impetus for distributing the bracelets is to inspire people to make positive changes in their inner life.  These inner efforts strongly magnify the power of a meditation practice to promote inner peace and happiness.     If you want to help support the Albany Peace Project by inspiring your office or family to go “Complaint-Free” please attend this meeting and you can learn how you can obtain the bracelets.

We will be beginning a “GoFundMe” campaign to raise the $2000 needed to start our bracelet campaign.  Bracelets will have both the imprint of the “Complaint-Free World” and actual colored print of  “AlbanyPeaceProject.com.   Discover The Peace & Happiness Within Starting 1.1.16”   These bracelets are NOT fashion statements, they are tools.  They are used to help us become more aware of our complaining patterns as we switch the bracelet from arm to arm each time we complain.  The goal is to keep the bracelet on the same arm for 21 days.

We expect to start with approximately 1500 bracelets.  Please consider approaching your organization to see if they are interested in being a sponsor.   This is actually a lot of fun when it is approached as a group.  Listen to this endorsement already:

“By the way, I have started complain free Wednesdays at work.  For every complaint, we put a quarter in a cup!  It has been a blast today!!!”  

Our hope is to get 10,000 bracelets circulated in Albany within the next 6 months.  Imagine Albany a Happier City!   Please consider helping us start the wave of happiness by contributing to our first goal.    If you are interested in helping us gather the seed money to start the wave of happiness,  please use the donate button located at the bottom right of this page.

2)  We will soon be starting our Albany Peace Project Certification Program to help people feel confident stepping out to teach meditation at organizations throughout Albany.

It still amazes me that meditation is such a profoundly simple and powerful tool that has the startling potential to positively transform society in so many impressive ways. Meditation offers the solution to so many of society’s ills, including lowering violence, reducing stress related disorders and burnout, and improving academics.   This powerful tool is literally “under our noses”, and we have not even yet begun to tap it’s potential.  And what makes it even more amazing…it has all this power…and it is FREE!!!   I have already been observing how just talking about Albany Peace Project Certification Program is already changing perspectives and paradigms through Albany.    If you want to help spread the wave of peace and happiness throughout Albany by becoming a Certified Albany Peace Project leader…please attend the next APP meeting, tentatively scheduled for June 9…location to be determined.

Also, you can probably see that we are creating a new website, which should be finished within a few weeks.   My heartfelt appreciation for Sara McCauley for donating her time and talent for the website.

3) Next Numinous Talk:  Erasing the Neural Networks Responsible for Negative Thought Patterns – Tuesday 6.2 at 7:00 PM.  Shenendehowa Adult Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Blvd, Clifton Park, NY 

Have you ever felt you changed a bad habit permanently, only to find it re-emerge at a later time?  Do you still feel anxious when you are not meditating?  Do you try to think positive uplifting thoughts but still find your self rapidly slipping into negative thought patterns?

Although we may change  outward behavior, it is common for our old negative emotional reaction patterns to still be consolidated — stored in the brain’s long-term, “implicit memory” circuits.  If we don’t work to skillfully change these circuits, they remain indelible and permanent for the lifetime of individuals.   Although we can build different neural networks with new patterns of behavior, we often build these new neural networks in our brain “over” the old programming.

Old behavior often emerges because the brain is an energy hog, and when we have low energy, we can quickly revert back to outdated thinking patterns because the neural pathways for the old behavior still exist.   These old programs have often only been “written over” with the new behavioral programming.

This is a powerful understanding to have for those of us who are dedicated to a spiritual path.  The spiritual life is one of reprogramming and redefining past experiences while developing greater intimacy and communication with the Infinite.  This Divine intimacy requires a mind that is available, not stuck  in the past.

So….How do we actually ERASE the brain of old programming?

In this NUMINOUS talk we will apply what current neuroplasticity research has revealed, that the only way to to actually erase old mental patterns is through skilled  memory reconsolidation.     We stop trying to abandon the lower self, and finally start integrating it with our higher nature, which facilitates more stable and sustained elevated consciousness.

4) One more big event..Numinous is a sponsor for an event with author, Michael Wayne on June 20.  If you are interested in how prominent new thought leaders are using the understandings promoted through Numinous and the Albany Peace Project to positively transform society, you will be definitely be interested in this free event.    I am excited that I have been asked to interview Michael Wayne.  Not only is he a pioneer in consciousness, but  his “Interviews With The Leading Edge Series”  has been helping to spread the ideas of how new thought-systems that promote the dignity and creativity of all people is being utilized to help solve our complex societal problems.

The event will be Sat. evening June 20 at 7:30pm, the Saratoga Integrative Medicine Education Network/SIMEN, in it is being offered in conjunction with the Healing Springs Journal.

The event is called Interviews with the Leading Edge: A Live and Free Event!  It will take place at the Dee Sarno Theater at the Saratoga Arts Center, 320 Broadway in Saratoga Springs.

This event will be a live filming in front of a studio audience for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series. By coming, you will be part of the studio audience and get to be part of a complete film studio production.

The event is free, and there will be free food, refreshments and wine, so it truly promises to be a fun and festive occasion. 

And so, come to this free event, and be part of a live studio audience as you partake of this festive occasion. You are guaranteed to have a grand time.For more information, call 518-210-1557.

Exciting Stuff…we hope to see you there!

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It is such fun to introduce you to someone who has been called the “sweetest statistician ever!”    Karin Reinhold, Phd.  is a professor of Mathematics at the State University of Albany, and she is blending her passion for science and spirit as the academic researcher for the Albany Peace Project.
In this lively interview, Dr. Reinhold and I discuss some of the details of the project, and we also try to clear up some misconceptions about this work.

We discuss the 21 Day Challenge, created by internationally known speaker and author Will Bowen, who has inspired over 10,000,000 people to go 21 days in a row without complaining.  The Albany Peace Project sponsored this challenge and purchased 10,000 complaint-free bracelets to distribute to the city of Albany. To learn the details of this transformational program, please watch Will’s short video, which can be found under the meditation. The clip explains how complaining damages our relationships and the five reasons why people complain.  Bracelets are going fast, so if you want any please feel free to reach out using the contact form found below this post.

It is such fun to introduce you to someone who has been called the “sweetest statistician ever!”    Karin Reinhold, Phd.  is a professor of Mathematics at the State University of Albany, and she is blending her passion for science and spirit as the academic researcher for the Albany Peace Project.
In this lively interview, Dr. Reinhold and I discuss some of the details of the project, and we also try to clear up some misconceptions about this work.

We discuss the 21 Day Challenge, created by internationally known speaker and author Will Bowen, who has inspired over 10,000,000 people to go 21 days in a row without complaining.  The Albany Peace Project sponsored this challenge and purchased 10,000 complaint-free bracelets to distribute to the city of Albany. To learn the details of this transformational program, please watch Will’s short video, which can be found under the meditation. The clip explains how complaining damages our relationships and the five reasons why people complain.  Bracelets are going fast, so if you want any please feel free to reach out using the contact form found below this post.

Interview.

If this meditation was helpful to you, please consider donating by clicking here.

NUMINOUS LECTURE SERIES FOR JANUARY
Programs are held weekly, on Wednesday evenings,  at Unity Church of Albany, 21 King Ave, Albany, NY.

How Do We Love…Well?????    (It may not be what you think)
James Peterson, LCSW-R, Founder True Heart Path
Wednesday January 13 at 7:00 PM
Unity Church of Albany

Have you ever regretted how you ended a relationship wishing you had not taken certain things for granted?
Has someone who means a lot to you ever hurt you deeply by an offhanded comment?
If you were to die tomorrow, would you you be remembered by your deep love for those around you…or something else?

We would be well advised to keep these questions fresh in our mind.  At the end of our lives, we will review our choices, and how well we loved will be the most important questions we ask ourselves.    Unfortunately, these questions are often forgotten as we strive to meet the urgency of life’s daily demands.  But, in this class, James Peterson, LMSW-C, will remind us how important it is that we not only love…. but love well. 

What does it mean to love ourselves and others well?

Even more importantly, what keeps us from loving?

James created the True Heart Path Program to help people come back into alignment with what he calls, their “true heart.”  The True Heart is what resides underneath so many of our actions, however it’s expression gets obscured through life’s demands and challenges.  James reminds people of their deepest wisdom as he adeptly guides them back to their greatest teacher, the teacher within of the True Heart.

James guides people to see all of our circumstances as opportunities to release from what no longer serves us and discover true peace within.

See how you can learn to add more power and beauty into your moment to moment existence to help make your life and our world a better place for peace and love to prosper.

Mindfulness For Busy People
Anne-Marie Serre, IT Specialist/Corporate Meditation Leader
Wednesday January 20 at 7:00 PM, Unity Church of Albany

This session will help you apply the transformative power of mindfulness to your busy life, helping you find the coherent calm space within you, as you focus yourself for whatever challenges you face.

Mindfulness is not mystical or magical, it is actually somewhat methodical.  There are basic techniques you can use to broaden your perceptions at any moment, which enables you to resource a much broader palette of elevated feelings, including greater joy, clarity and sustained well-being.

As an IT consultant, Anne-Marie Serre, has had to hone her ability to stay calm under pressure.  In this talk, she will share the best mindfulness techniques she has cherry picked to help us work gracefully under periods of intense stress.  She will discuss how mindfulness techniques do not actually take any “time” at all, because brief periods of mindfulness actually improves focus, energy, efficiency and creativity all which yield greater results in less time.

Programs are held weekly at Unity Church of Albany, 21 King Ave, Albany

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Goal Officially Reached! Volunteers Needed to Distribute Bracelets

Thank you to everyone who donated to the Complaint-Free Bracelet campaign.
We officially reached our goal and have purchased ten thousand bracelets with accompanying information about the Albany Peace Project!!  Next, we need a lot of help to distribute these 10,000 bracelets.

We will be discussing distribution at our weekly Wednesday night meetings, at Unity Church of Albany at 6:45 PM.  If you are interested in having your organization or family get involved, please come out and reserve your bunch of bracelets.  We would greatly appreciate it.

We are sponsoring several uplifting events this fall, and we look forward to your participation.

Please Consider Attending Weekly Wednesday Meetings

Unity Church of Albany at 6:45 PM.

Please send any comments or suggestions using the form found below these words.

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