On the heels of the previous post, here are two opportunities to participate in peace:1. Kissing. When you meet someone under mistletoe, the tradition is to kiss them. We can thank Scandinavians for this wonderfully affectionate tradition. Mistletoe was the plant of peace in Scandinavian antiquity and according to folklore "if enemies met by chance beneath it in a forest, they laid down their arms and maintained a truce until the next day."
2. Ringing bells this Sunday. "Salman Ahmad, guitarist and lead singer of the popular Pakistani rock band Junoon, is a musician on a mission to promote world peace and give a more progressive face to Islam. Now Ahmad has teamed up with Grammy Award–winning artist Melissa Etheridge to record a song for this holiday season titled “Ring the Bells,” which he describes as “a cry for peace and change in a world of war and chaos.” In collaboration with Deepak Chopra's Alliance for a New Humanity, Ahmad and Etheridge have dedicated this Sunday, December 21, as a day for people around the world to take a meditative moment to put the song's title into action." You can watch this video to hear the song and find out more it.
resource: Enlightennext.com
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