The beginning of the year is a time for resolutions, when we all promise to eat healthy, exercise more, wake up earlier than usual, and start saving. More often than not, we start the year enthusiastic with the prospect of a clean slate, but over the succeeding months drop off, and by the end of the year abandon our resolutions all together.
Fuel the high hopes for the New Year and sustain it until the year's end with corporate gifts that inspire. Whatever the resolution is, there are motivational gifts to encourage people to eat healthy, exercise, save, or come to work on time.
- Encourage employees and family members to wake up on time this New Year with corporate gifts such as wristwatches and alarm clocks. Wristwatches are excellent gift items because they have a higher perceived value and thus leave a good impression with recipients.
- Are employees willing to eat healthy but don't know why? Why not get them cookbooks offering healthy recipes? Instead of the usual Christmas hamper with ham, cheese, and chocolates, why not give them a starter kit containing healthy ingredients they can use in their own kitchens such as olive oil and organic food products?
- Stress is a reality in this generation, thus wellness kits including massage oils, aromatherapy candles, and relaxing body scrub and basically anything that will help the corporate warrior sleep well make perfect New Year corporate gifts. You might want to up this with a coupon equivalent to an hour's massage session. Be assured, your gift will be warmly received.
- Presents that encourage recipients to manage their money wisely are a hit especially in this economy. Give children piggy banks to inspire them to save money. The bill-paying organizer is an efficient extra hand to the adult who badly needs some help in balancing his checkbook.
- Equally timely New Year corporate gifts are products that encourage recipients to pursue sports activities. Aside from jumping rope or golf sets, a gym bag, yoga mat, or maybe a DVD of the hottest exercise routine are well-meaning presents. With all this inspiration, wouldn't you be motivated to see your New Year's resolutions through?
I want to share some of my reasons for sponsoring New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular. Of course, I am Chinese, and the Chinese New Year is part of my tradition and heritage. I love the colorful costumes, beautiful music and dance depicting ancient myths and legends. It reminds me of stories from my childhood. In addition, the cause, the people involved and the performances themselves have touched me profoundly, they have a healing effect in more than one sense.
Most people in the West don’t know that traditional Chinese culture has really been destroyed by the communist regime. What people nowadays get in China is very shallow as it has been stripped of all its deeper inner meaning and is laden with communist party culture. So while there are other Chinese New Year Galas, I find that only NTDTV has been able to recreate a New Year celebration that is truly authentic, and at the same time has a charming multicultural flavor. It is performed in dozens of cities around the world, and people everywhere enjoy it tremendously. It contributes to greater harmony and understanding between people and cultures.
Right now Chinese society is in the process of a great transformation as millions of Chinese have quit from the communist party during the past 24 months. China is facing the abolishment of communism and a return to its rich cultural heritage. I believe that the annual NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular is promoting the spreading of traditional Chinese culture globally and helps speed up the rebirth of traditional values in Mainland China.
Another reason why I sponsor this event is because there is a spiritually uplifting energy in these wonderful music performances. It is actually a healing energy. I am a doctor of Oriental Medicine and also have a western degree in Neuroscience. I practice vibrational energy medicine as my profession, and I am very sensitive to healing vibrations. The pure energy produced during these shows is very powerful. During the entire show, I find my mind, body and soul are deeply resonating with the music waves. I realized that this is not just a show for entertainment, it goes way beyond ordinary art performances.
In my practice I am seeing increasing numbers of people suffering from different kinds of mental and physical problems. I believe they are a result of our fast-moving, competitive, materialistic, and stressful lifestyle which causes imbalances in the autonomic nervous systems and blocking mental, physical and emotional energy pathways. Many people, including teenagers, listen to noisy, meaningless and mind-disturbing music, which I feel are also contributing to psychological problems including ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, and more. Many studies indicate that mental stress and negative emotions can cause physical diseases. This is already a common reality today.
One of the treatment modalities in my practice is sound therapy. It involves a complex process of playing certain sounds and frequencies to a patient and monitoring their brain activity to determine what is most harmonious and beneficial in changing their condition. Many patients, including stroke victims, have responded extremely well and recovered from a variety of serious problems using sound therapy.
From my many years of working with sound and music I can tell what kinds of sound and music promote healing and well-being. I found that the NTDTV performances have such an effect. I have shared the DVD of last year’s show with many friends and patients as well.
I plan to close my office on January 9th and take my family to the Los Angeles show at the Kodak Theater. I hope you can see it at a theater near your home. Enjoy the Chinese New Year at its best and have a healing experience! http://shows.ntdtv.com
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