Good afeternoon,Is my pleasure to meet you all, my name is Diana Peralta, I am 24 years old, i am  student of "Modern Languages Inglish​​Mention ", I am executive assistant of the Ministry of Agriculture, I like the bellydance and I have 20 brothers.

Spiritual renewal

People have different habits based on their beliefs and cultures. When they want to retreat themselves for the daily life as we have to face many economics, relationships and health problems every day. Some people like to disconnect from the normal life, it is usuall for some people get closer to God by fasting, going to church or visit a spiritual community in a vacation. Others just go to places to relax themselves , doing some meditation activities as yoga, or pamper themselves on a spa.

I personally go to church with my family and spend time with them, I'm not a religious person, so basically it is hard to know what it common for people as a spitual ritual.

Feng shui

Feng shui is an anciet asian art of placing objects and buildings to arrange balance and harmony, according to many sources on the web site. Despite of the uses of this art dates back 6th century, it is being practiced all around the world; if we stop for a minute and look objects around our aunts, grandmothers and some of our relatives houses, we can relate how they placed furniture, it is based on feng shui.

When I was a child I used to visit my mom's mother, she always placed plants in her house, and according to feng shui plants make air pure and bring harmony, also my aunt Mercedes placed mirrors in her living room, when she made her home decorations, feng shui says mirror in the living room brings you more friends. It was common for her to open windows and let lights to come into the house, which it is good because it lets bad energy goes out.

I also can remember my father having a fishbowl in our living room, which it stimulate good luck and wealth. Apparently the most simple order you place an object means something in feng shui. Now I know the importance and value of feng shui in our environment.

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It´s about of refrain from doing too many common things, for keeping touch with God, We have to pray, go to church, fast, doing humilities works of humility and be afraid of God´s power.    

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                                                                      The tipping point

In our country, we have been grow up in different aspects such as, communicative technology that has become in an epidemic in technology, that we use in education such as computer , cellphone, and tablets and websites.  Another aspect is transportation like communications´ freeway that unite our country, Santo Domingo Metro, in education we have all the public edifications and universities 

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                                                        Workplace  Privacy

I thought that employees should have more privacy in their work many times the employers violets their rights keep an eye in their freetime, at work, employers not should use method of eavesdropping that is illegal to all companies. They should haves safeguards that guaranties a best production , It ´s good that there is  a lag of call for keeping a control in companies. 

SPIRITUAL RENEWAL, FINDING YOURSELF

According to Chronicles verses 30 and 31, there are 6 steps to spiritual renewal:

1.- Remember God´s past faithfulness (30: 2,3)
2.- Keep going despite ridicule (30:10)
3.- Aggressively seek to remove evil influences from your life (30:14, 31:1)
4.- Confess your Sin to God (30:22)
5.- Be open to spontaneous praise worship (30:25)
6.- Contribute generously to God´s work (31:4-8)

I was talking with a person who knows about the Bible and told me those verses from the Bible . It is important that we search the outside world for something that we already possess inside. Look inward and you will always be at home. So stop worrying about unnecessary things, being each day with a prayer it will arm your soul, control your appetite this will be good for your body and mind. Accept your limitations, do not envy anyone, it wastes time and energy. Have faith in people, find a hobby it will relax your nerves, read a book a week to stimulate imagination, spend time alone for the peace of solitude and silence and try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.

And above all things pray to God and lay all your troubles on him.

Jose Dolores Gonzalez 

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                                                                    Feng Shui

Feng Shui is frowned upon as mere superstitions outside of China and USA. but hard bitten is feng shui Europe, USA, China Canada as transcendent for business, the number nine, red color is create harmony and good luck. Alming things  in the environment  to create harmony and good luck  feng shui is art and a scene feng shi for expert can affect many aspects of our live such as health  happiness and fortune. 

in classical feng shui water always symbolizes wealth and abundance, the theorry behind feng shui is that there is an  invisible life of energy call chi (chee)  that circulate throught all things how sense immediately if the chi is circulating properly. 

WORKPLACE PRIVACY, SOME USE OF TRACKING DEVICE

Nowadays inside the majority of the enterprises, there are cameras as a security method, it helps you with this process because our bosses can not keep up with everything.

In my opinion, must be cameras in some important parts of the building in an enterprise, for instance in the hall so we can do this surveillance, another place is where there is not much flow of people because if the people know that there are no cameras it is easier to check some irregularity. So this type of security must be installed in the warehouse area of a company.

Cameras inside the bathrooms are forbidden , also in the lockers room and first aid rooms. With the cameras also you can be notified that who is working really or who don´t, sometimes we as employees we feel that they are watching us all the time and you do not know if those cameras have a microphone inside and they could be listening what we are saying.

So we have to try quiet at work and take it easy if there are cameras, after all, it is for our bosses´ own good.

FENG SHUI, A PEACEFUL PLACE TO FIND YOURSELF

A long time ago I wrote a post about my room, my place, but I did not know that I could apply this beautiful technique: The Feng Shui.

First, we gonna start with the colors, the positions of the things in your room and the elements that are involved. According to some picture that I found on the Net, we have the North of the room in which are involved the following: the element water, with the colors blue and black, these bring career luck, so in this position, we can put a black desk with a blue chair on it just beside the door. Then we have Nort-East in which are involved the element earth, brown, yellow and pink color and these bring education luck so we can put a small piece of pink furniture with a little brown carpet and besides this a yellow bookcase. Then we have the North-West which is involved metal element, white, gold and silver colors and these bring travel luck and helpful people in this part of the room, we can put a litter white drawer with a little metal stool.

Also, we have the East which is involved the wood element, green color and brings family and health. In this part of the room, we can put a green rest chair. The South-East, in this part of the room we have as element and color as the East, but with different reward: wealth so we can put on this side of the room a big green rest furniture with some little table beside. Now we have the south, on this side of the room we have the fire, red and these will bring name and fame and in this part of the room, we can put a big bed with red covers and two nightspots. In the southwest, we have earth element, brown, yellow and pink colors and bring romance luck.

With this technique, we can build a peaceful place to be, to have our pleasant place, and t is important not to have any electronic device, it is better to have many books which you can read.  

                          Tipping point.                              When we talking about tipping point we talking about changes and an important one occurred here in santo domingo  being clear the tipping point was in the public transportation of santo domingo. we are using the subway of santo Domingo until 2009 that is a public transportation that transport thousands of people in santo domingo , thanks of subway we can be on time in our works and university. Time before get on time on work and in university was awful and we had to wake up very early and even that we arrived late. But now we can be on time in our work and university and at the same time we can safe a little mony, because for example you took three or four cars for arriving to your work on time maybe now with he subway you just take maybe two or three cars. For me this is a big tipping point and I hope that one day the subway can spread everywhere that would be awesome.

Workplace privacy.

Nowdays worplaces are using high technology to monitor their employees. The fact, you're being monitored cause you more stress and tension. It is true that employers can evalute how the job is being done. However, some companies are going beyond the limit. It should be parameters to protect the employees privacy rights.

Some companies policies are just disrespectful and degrading to the employees integrity. One thing I believe is so irrelevant is asking someone's last salary in a job interview, I mean that information is not important , or are they going to pay you base in your prior salary? That doesn't make any sense to me. Employers should evalute base on the quality and not invade employees spaces.

Honesty the best policy.

Is it always good to say the truth?

When I was a little child, my parents always told me you have to be honest no matter what. However, I don't believe that the truth is always the solution. Lying is part of our lifes as truth as well, if you decide to be honest you should find the right words to tell something because you may hurt somebody's feelings.

The truth will pop up unexpectedly even when you try to conceal it. Although lying in certain situations is necessary for example; conversations with children or someone with a terminal disease. But that does not mean you'll be lying everyone. I just think before we tell something we better analize the pros and cons. We should decide what we consider to be correct.

Internet addictions and its websites.

Internet use is increasing more every second, people are being more depending of the use of the internet in their daily life. Internet addicters expend many hours a day, just texting, downloading, searching info, shopping or posting opinions in blogs.

Internet users live in a virtual word where they disconnect from reality, spending less time with people. The connectivity of the web sites around the world makes people less sociable and more distracted; they just waste valuable moments of their lifes.

According to many web sites, some of the most popular sites are:
a) Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, Snapchat, YouTube, whatSApp; on these ones users are able to text, post, share videos and pictures, searching for info, and listening to music.
b) shopping sites: eBay, Amazon, Alibaba.com, Wal-Mart.com and Corotos.com; on these ones users can purchase and sell anything on the media marketing, also we have dating adds such as Tinder and Badoo, created for people who want to find the love on the web. There are billion of sides created for every people on the internet, and there is no doubt that everything get easier just just clicking there and here but we have to be careful and do not be consumed by the internet.

Spiritual Renewal
I think the Spiritual Renewal is very important in the life.
Sometimes work and work and the peple dont remember in Jesús , not remember in the Holy Bible in his promise his mercy , love ,truth.
God is the most important love on the World if you believe in Jesús his mercy can change everything in your life , he can break every chain.
Fasting, refráin from and go to the   Church not change the life but his mercy can change everything

Workplace Pivacy

     Privacy in our workplaces is definitely a relevant issue, because is important to maintain a surveillance for protection, and in case of anything happen. And of course employers and business owners have the right to keep an eye on what their employees are doing but, on the other hand, employees doesn’t have any certainty of how that information is being used, at least in the Dominican Republic.


     For example on my job, like a year ago the owners placed several cameras more than they had before. I understand that in a case of robbery they need those cameras for caught the criminals, but is a hard contrast when I see my boss monitoring the cameras in her cell phone, at any time when she is arriving or leaving, with no other reason, at least for me, than to spy us. I know it sounds a bit exaggerated but that’s how I feel, like if she doesn’t trust in us her employees. And this is the main problem, trust.


      My workplace is not a big one, and we are not more than fifteen employees in six separated areas. At first we felt like our relative privacy was invaded, but we get used to the cameras with time. Even so the feeling of being on constant surveillance for other reasons that for our protection, it bothers me.


     But generally speaking, having cameras surveillance in spaces where we work, shop, or have fun is a necessary safety measure that must be managed with responsibility and not like a personal reality show.

Spirituality

     Since the beginning of live, human beings had felt a need for explain things on their environment that were outside of their limited knowledge. And in a search for answer questions such as: how rain falls? And, why the sun rises and set every day? They create legends of a higher power that controls nature elements around them, and their very lives. And gods were born in a need to answers. In different cultures around the world and through history human beings had shown in many ways their need to approach to a divinity superior power in search of guide and comfort.


     Time passed, and like humans evolved, their relation with spiritual world did so, and religions start to appear; Judaism, Islam, Christianism, and Buddhism, are the most extended in the western world, Middle East and Asia.  Each one of those religions has millions of followers in several countries around the world, and in spite of its roots are related, their traditions and ways of live their faith are different.


     Nowadays, even though each person professes a different religion, everyone lives its spirituality in a personal way sharing a general feeling of unity. Of course there is people who feel they don’t need a religion for being in touch with their spirituality, with the knowledge of good and bad is enough for them. Many other people likes their religions and everything it carries.


     As I said at the beginning, spirituality is a need of human beings, it is part of what define us, it helps us to focus. Religions are a way to explore our spirituality in a community way, surrounded of people with the same needs to connect with a superior power, something bigger than us.

Feng Shui

    Feng shui is descibed as the rules of an ancient Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation, in relation to pattern of yin and yang and the flow of energy. Those rules take into account for favorable and unfavorable effects in Buildings and furniture designe. Feng shui is also described as an art and a science.


    From second half of twentieth century this philosophy has extended in several countries through Asian continent, European continent and North and South of American continet. In The United States its popularity has increased since architects, real states developers and interior designers start to using principles of feng shui to build and arrange places for people to living and work, based on supposed benefits of a positive flow of energy that feng shui provides.


    This practice also has detractors who qualify it as a pseudoscience with no scientific bases which verify its functionality. Skeptical people wondered if everything about feng shui it’s truth or just a fairy tale for having more sales or clients. In spite of it many feng shui experts believe on its worth and support it with several anecdotes of people whose lives dramatically changed, from negative to positive, after taste feng shui practices in their lives.


    Tale or truth, feng shui it’s an ancient tradition with hundreds of years of activity, and it’s being followed for people who wants to try something different to bring harmony and balance to their lives.

                      Spiritual renewal.                                spiritual renewal is pretty close or related with religion, but at the same time I think that you can have a spiritual renewal without you have to belong to a specific religion. I think you can have a renew or refill in that way. For example you can retire yourself in a monastery or a mount or whatever place where you find peace, you need to avoid hectic places and you need people vibrant that motivate your will. fasting is a great way of get your spiritual renewal you can do it, refrain from the thing that you love is for me really good. Other thing in which you have to work is in your humility and gratitude that two thing are essential for replenish your soul. You can do all that thing without you have to  belong of any religion. In the same way if you belong to any religion you can do that thing too many religions like eastern religion uses fasting.

                         Workplace privacy.                      Actually I work for a company in where are a system of surveillance it feel a little weird that everything that you do or talk is watching for others. At the same time we feel demeaned for our employer. The employer says that they have right of use surveillance with the end of evaluate the quality of our work. I think, that for a way surveillance is great because it could be helpful for the employees because we can use it as a way of protection for the employees of many thing. Now I accept the surveillance and the other thing related with deter quality of our work, ok the thing which I'm not agree is with the people that eavesdropping our personal conversation and when they force us willy-nilly to take drug test.

The Tipping point
The Dominican Republic has been in his  Best moment.The metro and 911 are the most important things nowadays
Many peple to use the metro becauses it is a comforble transportation and fast too.
911 is using by the poor population is comforble and fast too.

Honesty is the Best policy , be honesty is the Best things on the World,  but in some cases can be difficult.
Honesty is the Best value but can be aloof too.

Workplace Privacy.

Employers have a legitimate interest in monitoring work to ensure efficiency and productivity. For me this practice is good, because I have seen many people in the news they were recorded by cameras, when they pretend that they were hurt in work just for getting money from the company they are working.


For example: This employee of a Florida company in the United States, dropped an object from the ceiling on her desk and then struck with it to simulate an accident at work. After checking that she was alone she took that piece and hurt herself on the head.


This woman tried to make her believe that she had fallen directly to her from the ceiling, but she didn't know, that there was a security camera recording the whole scene, and the company could defend about this fraud.

 

Workplace privacy

I know it is important for every company and employers to see what their employees are doing during the work hours and I don’t think that it’s something bad, for me everything depends on where you work and what is your job, because I believe there are places where it is necessary to have surveillance and there are places where it’s not.

I really don’t feel well working in a place where they have cameras everywhere, even in the cafeteria, because it’s difficult for me not to have privacy at all, people need privacy in some places and some moments of their daily lives and routines

But surveillance it’s something that is spreading more and more every day so my opinion about this topic is that we will have to get use to work like that or not working at all if we are not willing to do it being watched. 

Spiritual Renewal

This is a topic I like because it’s about divinity and although they talk about many religions there is one important thing and it is that the main goal of this unit it’s to let us know how can we get closer to God no matter what name they call Him in each religion. I have practiced some of the ways they mention in the unit  to renew my spirit, fasting, praying, I read the Bible and I used to go to church but I don’t go now. Even though I’m not going to church anymore I still believe in God and His divinity, I still talk to Him every time I need to and I thank Him every single day because I’m still alive and for the thinks He has given me and the things He hasn’t, and the most important thing I still believe He is good all the time…

What is Feng Shui?

I am not used to posting things with words that are not mine but I don’t have any experience in this topic and if you have read my posts I love to write about my personal experience, I often try to adapt the topic of the unit and write about myself and my family but this is not the case, I’m just going to leave this interesting definition that I found on internet here.

Feng shui offers a variety of easy and practical tips to improve 

your life

What is feng shui? This is a simple question that can be quite difficult to answer. Feng shui is an ancient art and science developed over 3,000 years ago in China. It is a complex body of knowledge that teaches how to balance the energies in any given space - be it a home, office or garden -  in order to assure good fortune for people inhabiting it.

As good fortune comes in many ways - better health, successful career, fulfilling love life, etc - feng shui has detailed tips for almost any area of one's life.

Feng means wind and shui means water. In Chinese culture wind and water are associated with good health, thus good feng shui came to mean good fortune, while bad feng shui means bad luck, or misfortune. Feng shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi, or energy.

To finish I just want to say that I would like to try this science to see if really works beacuse I am not so sure about it right now.

Thanks for reading. 

Feng sui is an ancient form of Asia this practice is using in their buildings disigner.
The supertition, wealth and good luck are the principals parts in their buildings ,they like to put water becauses this elemente simbolize the abundance and wealth.
They dont like to sit with the back of the door becauses can be caught off guard.
Feng Shui has been present in Asia for Long time (3,000,00) years ago This practice becoming more accepted outside the Asia such as USA, Canadá Europe,and Latín American.

Uni # 7 Wokrplace privacy

Hello everybody.

Well, in my opinion. The workplace must be a place where you can work without pressure, great technological advances have simplified the life of humans but at the same time  it has become in something to worry about it, many of these technological advances are being used in a bad way, as in the case of surveillance cameras.📹

Many companies have surveillance cameras in inappropriate places, and because of this many employees don't work well since they don't feel in confidence because all their movements are monitored 👀 and I think this causes stress, but on the other hand the security cameras protect the employee from possible thefts💂 and  the employers of any problem that happens within the company.🔫👮

Sentences
The fulfilment of your ideas.
We must concéntrate on the present with an ideas of the future.

The Internet is a important implement for work,  education ,science  , entertainment and others things. This implement has become so popular but in some cases can be dangerous .Can become the Internet in an addict?
Researchers a StanFord University conducted a random telephone survey  of 2. 513 adults in the U.S and found that 70% o the respondents were regular Ínternet users. The Ínternet has revealed  unprecedente oportunities for learning,  communication , and business . However,  as it play an increasing role in our society.

                                                                  The Tipping Point





          The Tipping Point refes to the most important moments in the people's life or the most important historical dates or  moments of a country or city.  The tipping points for a human being are his birth date, his marriage date, his childrens' birth dates, and his parents' birth dates. The Dominican Republic has several tipping points that are histgorical dates, beggining with the independance day February 27, 1844, Trujillo' s death in 1961,  the civil war in April in 1965, and 1978, the year Dr. Balaguer was removed from presidential power.  The city of Santo Domingo has a very important moment or very important event that becomes in the tipping point that is the beginning of the subway of Santo Domingo.  We have World' s tipping points or humanity' s tipping points.  The first and second world wars are the biggest examples of tipping point wich are very negative moments o events for the humanity.

                                                                         Honesty




          Honesty is a very important quality for us the human beings.  Smart people must act and react honestly.  When people decide to lie, mislead other people or conceal (change, falsify) information, they think or feel that they are cheating on others, but the reality is that they are lying themselves.  I think and believe that the most intelligent action is always to act honestly and speak with the truth.  Liars only preoccupate for the moment, but people always discover the truth and take them of the veneer or mask.  Lies always erode relationships and these erosions are very difficult to overcome.
We must always be relentless (diligent) in telling the truth.

                                                            Workplace Privacy




          Nowadays is very common the use of equipment and modern technology in the workplaces.  The employers justify the use of cameras and other devices saying that it is for the employees' protection, but we know this is for surveillance and eavesdropping the employees in any moment and anywhere in the workplace or working center.  This reality is driving employees to feel demeaned and disrespected.  Employees sense someone is always watching them and this is making them feel stress or increasing it.  This controversial situation is only causing a low performance in the work of the employees.

           
                                                                Spiritual Renewal




          This is a very important topic for us the human beings. We were created by a Spiritual God and he gave us part of his Spirit so we need to be connected spiritually with our creator.  The spiritual renewal is the way we will always be close to God and the most important he will always be close to us.  There are several aspects of our lives we must change, do or better to achieve this spiritual renewal: we must keep us full of humility, we must pray God everyday and ask for his protection, we must offer our help to everyone who need it, and something very important is fasting to keep us separated from the material world.  Nowadays we have seen how the humanity has deteriorated and we know for sure that only God has the solutions to all our problems.

MY TIPPING POINT IN LIFE: MY SUCCED.

 
        "I decided long a go never to walk in anyone shadows, if I fail, if I succed at least I live as I beleive, no matter what they take from me, they can´t take away my dignity" A piece of a song "The Greatest love of all" by Whitney Houston.

         I mentioned this part of the song, because it remids me how I started to succed in life, both economically and personally, I used to live with my mom, so I decided to fly away. First I started to work in Occidental Hotels and Resorts, that was my first job and as young girl I did not know what to do with all that money I earned. So I started to spend money in unnecesary things.

         I was hanging out with my friends, drinking, dancing. How this affected my personal life? Well, I didn´t go to classes in the university, I started a bad relationship with my family, I didn´t have a bank account, and so many things, all this was for not knowing how to manage my money well. Then I started to work in Karisma Hotels and Resorts, in there I earned more money and I still didn´t know how to manage my money.

         I got married and my husband helped me to manage it, and together went ahead, so we bought an apartment and he had a car, my money was increasing and now I work in Silanes International, a Mexican Laboratory and unfortunatelly I got divorced and we sold the apartment, but I have my bank account, I save money, I live with my mom now, but at the end of the year I will buy my new apartment with my effort.

I succedded in life, I thought I was not going to do it.