Color psychology is the fascinating science of human the colors of the light spectrum influence our mood and behaviour.  For example, placebo pills that are hot-colored tend to produce a stronger effect when patients believe they are taking stimulants, and light blue pills produce a stronger effect when they believe they are taking medication for depression.

According to a 1997 survey by Cooper Marketing Group, 35% of Americans say that their favorite color is blue, followed by followed by green (16%), purple (10%) and red (9%).  It is believed that blue and green have such a calming and positive effect on people because of what we would have associated these colors with in our ancient history.  50,000 years ago, blue and green would mean water, food sources and shelter.

1. This moment right now is precious. Live fully in it.

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

“People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

You are not your past. You are not your future. You are not even your present as you experience it. You think so many outer events accrue to you. It is the inner realizations that accrue to you. I am within you, and I accrue to you now. I look upon you with favor which simply means that I see the Truth of you.

Whatever I see, you can also see. You can be blind and see. You can be the biggest roué in the world according to the world’s appraisal, and, still, you accrue to Me. You are Mine. There is no one who is not Mine. That you are Mine means I hold you dear, and I hold you close to Me, so close that indeed, on the level from which I speak, We are One and the same. You are Mine, and you possess all the faculties that are Mine. You may rather like to pretend that you are not worth very much and you go so far as to want to lead others astray as well. What you imagine to be true and actual Truth are not always the same.

The more you see Our resemblance, the closer to Truth you are. You are not a book only kept in mind and never written. You are published, yet you haven’t read your own autobiography. You blank out the Truth of you. You simply don’t see what is in front of you. I am in front of you as you play your game of Peek-a-boo with yourself. Come out of hiding.

Of course, you likely have wandered from the Truth of you. You wandered off somewhere in a daze. When you wander off, you have the opportunity to wander back. You can find your way back to the Reality of Who You Are. You are wandering now.

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

There’s so much I don’t know, so much it would seemingly benefit me to know, and SO much knowledge available to us right now. Recently a friend showed me some of the spiritual/metaphysical videos he had been watching, and he remarked on the availability of such previously sought-after information. It’s true… some of this is treasure! Why is it now freely given to millions?

In the past, people who wanted knowledge would have to first discover that there is such a thing, and then go through great effort to get to the location where that knowledge is, and once found, they would have to qualify to receive it. So ‘seeking to know’ would have to be the person’s destiny: can’t help it, born to do it, pulled to it in fact.

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times 

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” – Albert Camus in The Plague

That bad habit you have been trying to break is likely causing you consternation for more reasons than you think. Perhaps you’ve sworn to yourself that you would stop being late for appointments, or binge eating ice cream at 3 in the morning, but you can’t seem to change. It is likely due to a delicate dance going on between your neuronal synapses. There is a way to re-wire them, in effect, but it helps to understand what caused your brain to develop that habit to begin with.