Recycling in Japan . This article shows how the Japanese have come up with a new process for recycling plastics.

"...Their method is also much simpler to implement on a large scale since it eschews costly pressure chambers and wasteful energy inputs in favor of typical laboratory glassware."

When I visited El Salvador I was happy to see the common recycling logo on the bins in the airport. I have no idea how often the citizens are actually encouraged to recycle. However, store owners have a vested interest in keeping their "Coke" bottles. They customarily will pour the soda into a plastic baggie and give it to the customer with a straw. This is so they can return the glass bottles for the deposit.

Many of today's self help books carry the message similar to "Energy flows where attention goes," or "you get what you focus on." It's in the movies The Secret and  What the Bleep? It's in the books "Happy for no Reason," "Harmonic Wealth," the teachings of Bill Harris from Centerpointe, and many other self help "gurus" talk about this principle that many call The Law of Attraction.

I am a self help book junkie, and even though I've slowed down in buying these nonfiction books since I've had kids, I just can't stop. My husband, however, doesn't read books. He doesn't like self help movies like the ones I mentioned. We're quite an odd couple!

So he bangs his head on the proverbial wall every time one of his children (my stepchildren) does something he hates, like dressing like gangsters, throwing gang signs in photos, acting lazy, not working when they are supposed to, and ending up in court. He exerts more mental energy focusing on hating going to court than on its opposite, living in peace. About five years ago, when he had to accompany his boys to court the most, he used to come home and  repeat to me, "I hate court! I hate court! Why do I always end up in court when I never want to be there again!" I tried to calmly tell him, "If you focus on hating it, you'll get more of it. You have to accept it and make it like any other daily activity." And he would say, "I'll NEVER accept going to court!" I stopped trying.

So, back to this week. He's been teaching his older son, now 18, how to run the family business. It has not gone smoothly. He is frustrated that his son moves so slowly, has no enthusiasm for the job, and would rather spend time with friends than in prepping for the next day. So it has come down to a confrontation and his son decided to move away rather than stay and learn the business.

My husband had an epiphany and realized that he was just unconsciously repeating what happened between he and his father years ago. His father also tried to teach him the family business and he hated it! Things come full circle. As he realized this, he offered a full apology to his son and actually said those magic words most wives wish their husbands would say, "I WAS WRONG".!!!!

And then he distilled his life's lesson into these words, "You get what you hate."

And this, friends, is just another way to say "you get what you focus on."  Lesson learned.

Your investment of time in doing The Work. The important inner work, that is. All of us have a personal responsibility to work out our "issues" and lighten our "baggage" so as to succinctly raise our own vibrational rate, thereby raising the collective vibrational rate of society. Doing The Work will enable us humans to evolve more rapidly!

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