By Debbie Hampton
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

While the idea of having either a sunny brain or a rainy brain is a little bit extreme, it’s not too far off base because optimistic brains actually do function differently than pessimistic ones.

As science has begun to unravel and validate the complex neurobiology of positive emotion and optimism, it’s been discovered that three brain regions play a crucial role in making and keeping you optimistic.

How Your Brain Makes Optimism

The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the “executive center” of your brain, guides your behavior, regulates emotion, and motivates you towards reward and away from pain or danger. The PFC also allows you to set goals and plan for and imagine the future, which are directly related to optimism.

Many of you are doing a wonderful job of starting to recognize yourselves as the masters you really are. The next natural step from there is to start to recognize everyone else on the planet as a master, as well. It is incredibly encouraging and empowering to honour everyone as the experts of their own unique path. That acceptance supports the freedom to self express, which allows every person on the planet to grow and experience in the ways that are divinely perfect for them, and that, Dear Ones, is unconditional love. ~Archangel Gabriel

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Small things make your Earth plane existence worthwhile. Others may come but, they will never be the same as the one in the moment. Enjoy them as they present themselves. ~ Creator

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God said:

What matters to you is love, and that’s it. Oh, yes, you think wealth matters to you, looks matter to you, your position in the world matters to you, where you live matters to you, health matters to you. Yet all these matters, next to love in your heart, these other matters are not the most essential even as you may so well think so. The flow of love is the most influential factor for your awareness of well-being. There is no getting around this.

When all is said and done, what matters most to you is the love you have given and give now and the love you have been and are blessed with. Love has come to you from all parts of the Universe, and love goes from you to all parts of the Universe as well. What you amount to, beloveds, is your love. All the other matters you put great stock in do not light a candle next to love. Remember love.

Did I leave out mention of Me, God? Nope, for I am included in love. You want to be glad for your blessings, and I am your blessing along with your family and children and all that have carried you and that you have carried and supported all these years on Earth. I am your Supporter, and you are Mine. We love.

It is understood that there are times certainly when you have felt that you were denied rather than blessed. Be wary of comparing yourself to others. You tend to feel aggrieved when you see a disparity. Comparing yourself to others is a trap. Be glad that others have what they have. You can be glad that someone else has all wonderful things to be glad for.

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

The teachings of many of history’s religious and philosophical figures are timeless, but are often mistakenly taken at face value. It’s easy to slap a quote on an image or a t-shirt and pass it around, but it takes deliberate thought to actually internalize the true meaning behind the words, and often these quick philosophical ‘bytes’ are passed over too quickly for this to happen.

It’s easy for us in this day and age to be “spiritual” by identity and pass it off well without ever truly living spiritually — without  recognizing and benefitting from what we can learn from having a spiritual relationship with ourselves and this world. Because of that, it’s common to come across a great deal of logical spiritualists and fake ‘new-agey’ type personalities that don’t truly live the core of what these great teachers have shared.

So I wanted to share my own perspective on the true meaning behind some of these quotes.

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

Christina Sarich, Contributor
Waking Times

“. . . It is the mind which wants to make the experience which it calls truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth. Truth is always new: it is to see the same smile and see that smile newly, to see the same person and see that person anew, to see the waving palms anew, to meet life anew. . .” ~ J. Krishnamurti

What creates a mind that can see things anew? Not the stale, crusty, crumbs of ‘truth’ that have mold around the edges, causing us to see reality in a fractured, disintegrating, purely entropic way, but a truth that shines with life and newness like a spring bud bursting from its yellow-green casing?

What allows a radical new theory – like a black hole devouring stars from the inside to create dark matter – to take hold of a scientist’s mind to help explain the origins of gamma-ray bursts, or the study of something as simple as a string of RNA blossom in a curious head so that the boundaries between biology and chemistry start to dissolve? Or even a mind simple and new enough to see the world as it is and not how we wish it could be?