National Anthem Guatemala

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Himno Nacional de Guatemala

English: National Anthem of Guatemala
National anthem of	Guatemala
Lyrics	José Joaquín Palma
Music	Rafael Álvarez Ovalle
Adopted	1896
Music sample
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The National Anthem of Guatemala was written by José Joaquín Palma (1844-1911) and composed by Rafael Álvarez Ovalle. The anthem was adopted in 1896 as the winning entry in a competition held by the government. The lyrics were modified slightly in 1934 by Professor Jose Maria Bonilla Ruano, a Spanish grammar scholar. Some verses were softened in their bloody context while others were enhanced in their poetic beauty.^[1]

The anthem is often erroneously "titled" Guatemala Feliz! from its opening lyrics, but the anthem has no official name and is only referred to in the country as Himno Nacional.

Contents  [hide] 1 Sheet music 2 Spanish lyrics 3 English Lyrics 4 References 5 External links

[edit]Sheet music

• Piano sheet music of National Anthem of Guatemala

Transcription in F, original key. Transcription in C for children and female voices, and for easy piano.

[edit]Spanish lyrics

¡Guatemala feliz...! que tus aras

no profane jamás el verdugo;

ni haya esclavos que laman el yugo

ni tiranos que escupan tu faz.

Si mañana tu suelo sagrado

lo amenaza invasión extranjera,

libre al viento tu hermosa bandera

a vencer o a morir llamará.

CHORUS:

Libre al viento tu hermosa bandera

a vencer o a morir llamará;

que tu pueblo con ánima fiera

antes muerto que esclavo será.

De tus viejas y duras cadenas

tu forjaste con mano iracunda

el arado que el suelo fecunda

y la espada que salva el honor.

Nuestros padres lucharon un día

encendidos en patrio ardimiento

y lograron sin choque sangriento

colocarte en un trono de amor.

CHORUS:

Y lograron sin choque sangriento

colocarte en un trono de amor,

que de Patria, en enérgico acento,

dieron vida al ideal redentor.

Es tu enseña pedazo de cielo

en que prende una nube su albura,

y ¡ay de aquel que con ciega locura,

sus colores pretenda manchar!

Pues tus hijos valientes y altivos,

que veneran la paz cual presea,

nunca esquivan la ruda pelea

si defienden su tierra y su hogar.

CHORUS:

Nunca esquivan la ruda pelea

si defienden su tierra y su hogar,

que es tan solo el honor su alma idea

y el altar de la Patria su altar.

Recostada en el Ande soberbio,

de dos mares al ruido sonoro,

bajo el ala de grana y de oro

te adormeces del bello quetzal.

Ave indiana que vive en tu escudo,

paladión que protege tu suelo;

¡ojalá que remonte su vuelo,

más que el cóndor y el águila real!

CHORUS:

¡Ojalá que remonte su vuelo,

más que el cóndor y el águila real,

y en sus alas levante hasta el cielo,

Guatemala, tu nombre inmortal!

[edit]English Lyrics

tra, may your altar

Never be trampled by the tormentor

Nor should slaves lick the yoke

Nor should tyrants spit in your face

If tomorrow your sacred soil

Is threatened by foreign invasion

Free into the wind, your beautiful flag

To victory or death it will call

CHORUS

Free into the wind, your beautiful flag

To victory or death it will call

Since your people, with fiery soul

Will be dead before enslaved.

From your old and hard chains

You forged, with an ire-driven hand,

The plow that fertilizes the soil

And the sword that saves honor.

Our fathers fought one day,

Lit up in patriotic burning

And they were able, without bloody clash,

To place you on a throne of love.

And they were able, without bloody clash,

To place you on a throne of love,

That our Nation, in energetic assent,

Gave life to the ideal redeemer.

Your emblem shows a piece of the sky

In which a cloud gets its whiteness

Wretched is he who dares in madness

stain your colors

Well, your brave and proud sons

who admire the peace within

will never avoid the rough battles

if they are to defend their land and their home.

CHORUS

They will never avoid the rough battles

if they are to defend their land and their home

that honor is the idea that reigns their souls

and the altar of the mother country their altar

Lying in the magnificent Ande

with two oceans at hearing distance

under the wing of seeds and gold

you become entranced from the beautiful quetzal

Native bird that lives in your seal

protector that protects your soil

hopefully he will fly high

more than the condor and the royal eagle!

CHORUS

Hopefully he will fly high

more than the condor and the royal eagle

and in his wings, raise up to the sky:

Guatemala, your immortal name!

Flag of Guatemala

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 National flag. Flag ratio: (5:8)

 Civil flag and ensign. Flag ratio: (5:8)

Presidential Standard

The flag of Guatemala features two colors: sky blue and white. The two sky blue stripes represent the fact that Guatemala is a land located between two oceans, thePacific Ocean and the Caribbean sea; and the sky over the country (see Guatemala's National Anthem). The white color signifies peace and purity.

In the center of the flag is the Guatemalan coat of arms. It includes the Resplendent Quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala that symbolizes liberty; a parchment scrollbearing the date of Central America's independence from Spain, 15 September 1821; crossed rifles, indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be; abay laurel crown, the symbol for victory; and crossed swords, representing honor.

More information [1]

The Central American flag was used in Guatemala until 1851, when a pro-Spanish faction took over and added the Spanish colors of red and yellow to the flag. The original colors were restored on August 17, 1871, but as vertical (rather than horizontal) stripes and with a new coat of arms.

The Resplendent Quetzal previously appeared in the 1830s in the flag of Los Altos, the sixth state in the Federal Republic.

Color scheme	Brilliant Blue		White		Brilliant Blue
Pantone[1]		297		Safe		297
RGB		73-151-208		255-255-255		73-151-208
CMYK		64.9-27.4-0-18.4		0-0-0-0-0		64.9-27.4-0-18.4
Web colors		4997D0		FFFFFF		4997D0

[edit]History

1825-1838 (Within Central America)	1838-1843	1843-1851	1851-1858
1858-1871

TM Article in Guatemala Free Press

Free Press Guatemala--PrensaLibre.com  

The practice of meditation reduces stress in patients with breast cancer

Meditation helps to improve the emotional state of everyone.

EDITORIAL GOOD LIFE

16:19 | 30.10.2009

Transcendental meditation reduces stress and improves emotional and mental well-being of breast cancer patients, suggest the findings of a recent study.

The two-year study included 130 patients at Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, over 55 years, randomly assigned to a transcendental meditation group or a control group that received usual care. Quality of life was assessed every six months.

"The emotional and psychosocial stress contributes to the initiation and progression of breast cancer and cancer mortality," he said in a press release from the Saint Joseph Hospital study author Nidich Sanford, principal investigator of the Maharishi Institute of Natural Medicine and Prevention Management University in Fairfield, Iowa.

"The technique of transcendental meditation reduces stress and improves emotional and mental health in older patients with breast cancer. Women in the study found that the meditation practice was easy to carry out at home, and reported significant benefits in quality of life in general, "said Nidich.

"It's wonderful that now doctors have a variety of interventions to use, even transcendental meditation, to benefit cancer patients. I think this method should be appreciated and used more widely, " he said in the press release the author of the study, Dr. Rhoda Pomerantz, chief of gerontology at Saint Joseph Hospital.

The study, published in a recent issue of the journal Integrative Cancer Therapies, was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health USA.

Transcendental Meditation Program in Guatemalan Prisons

Transcendental Meditation Program in Guatemalan Prisons 

Recently the government of Guatemala has requested that a program including the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique be offered to prisoners throughout the prison system of Guatemala.  The goal of the program is to provide genuine rehabilitation for the inmates of the prisons and to improve the quality of life in the nation as a whole by reducing collective stress and creating greater national coherence.

Transcendental Meditation Technique

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple, natural, effortless process practiced 15–20 minutes twice daily while sitting comfortably with eyes closed. It is unique among techniques of meditation, distinguished by its effortlessness, naturalness and profound effectiveness. 

The TM technique allows your mind to settle inward, beyond thought, to experience the silent reservoir of energy, creativity and intelligence found within everyone—a natural state of restful alertness. During the practice, your brain functions with significantly greater coherence and your body gains deep rest

(http://www.tm.org/).

Transcendental Meditation in Rehabilitation

The Transcendental Meditation program has been widely used for effective prison rehabilitation. Studies indicate that it produces positive changes in health, personality development, behavior, and reduced recidivism (lower return to prison) among inmates. One study of recidivism found that 259 inmates of Folsom and San Quentin prisons and Deuel Vocational Institute in California who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique had 35-40 percent fewer new prison terms compared to the matched controls, whereas it is known that traditional prison education, vocational training, and psychotherapy do not consistently reduce recidivism.

A large scale study of 11,000 prisoners and 900 staff officers in Senegal, West Africa in 1987 found that the Transcendental Meditation program markedly decreased prison violence, health problems and that it reduced recidivism to a mere eight percent (http://archive.tm.org/discover/research/summary.html).

TM Program in Guatemala City Granja Penal de Pavón Prison

In 1984 the TM technique was offered to the administration, guards and prisoners of the main women's and men's prisons outside of Guatemala City. The men's prison was Granja Penal de Pavón prison located outside the town of Fraijanes near Guatemala City. The women's prison was the Centro de Orientacion Femenino (COF) also in Fraijanes. The prison meditation programs were studied and the guards reported less violence and drug use when inmates and guards both practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique.

Granja Penal de Pavón

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• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• In Memoriam: Charles N. Alexander, PhD, 1950-1998
• INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
• The Transcendental Meditation Program: A Consciousness-Based Developmental Technology for Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention
• HIGHLIGHT: A COMMUNITY-BASED SENTENCING PROGRAM FOR PROBATIONERS
• The Enlightened Sentencing Project: A Judicial Innovation
• SECTION I: THEORY AND REVIEW
• Effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Criminal Rehabilitation and Substance Abuse Recovery: A Review of the Research
• Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Neuroendocrine Abnormalities Associated with Aggression and Crime
• SECTION II: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ON REHABILITATION
• First Prison Study Using the Transcendental Meditation Program: La Tuna Federal Penitentiary, 1971
• Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners I: Cross-Sectional Differences in Development and Psychopathology
• Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners II: Longitudinal Study of Development and Psychopathology
• Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners III: Reduced Recidivism
• Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Recidivism Among Former Inmates of Folsom Prison: Survival Analysis of 15-Year Follow-Up Data
• Consciousness-Based Rehabilitation of Inmates in the Netherlands Antilles: Psychosocial and Cognitive Changes
• SECTION III: PREVENTING CRIME AND VIOLENCE
• Attacking Crime at Its Source: Consciousness-Based Education in the Prevention of Violence and Antisocial Behavior
• Preventing Crime Through the Maharishi Effect
• Preventing Terrorism and International Conflict: Effects of Large Assemblies of Participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs
• SECTION IV: TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN PRISONS AND PRISON SYSTEMS
• The Transcendental Meditation Program in the Senegalese Penitentiary System
• Cost Savings from Teaching the Transcendental Meditation Program in Prisons
• REFERENCES
• Index