by Judith Orloff, M.D.

Ecstasy and bliss are your birthright. The only thing that keeps you from these is fear. There comes a time when you can set aside this fear and simply rejoice is everything. Love is all there is, truly.

Wonder and gratitude will tune you into the secrets of abundance that comes from love and the heart. When you know this, really know this, bliss will permeate your moments here.

This is an affirmation / prayer based on The Ecstasy of Surrender to awaken the wonder in your heart and keep it alive. In hard times and good times, repeat it to keep you aligned with abundance, success, and miracles.

I surrender to the miracle of all things.

I surrender to abundance in every form.

I surrender my fear and surrender to love every moment, every breath...

HJ: Your emotional state is everything.  You will rarely do something out of alignment with your emotional state.  And so it is important to be able to get a handle on it — but that does not mean denying or repressing or trying to escape an emotion, but therapeutically accepting and processing it in a healthful way that allows you to transcend it and move back into a place of peace and wholeness.

- Truth

How to Dissolve Negative Emotions into Emptiness

By Giovanni Dienstmann | Wake Up World

Do you sometimes feel oppressed by negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, shame, worthlessness, or depression? Are you open to discover a way to overcome them – transcend them – that requires no medication nor years of psychotherapy?...

Recently, bald eagles were reported flying around Staten Island. It may not sound like much, but it’s the first time in over 100 years that the eagles have been seen in the area. It raises hope that New York City may someday be home to bald eagles again.

Bald eagles nearly met their match at the hands of deforestation, hunting, and DDT poisoning. The national symbol of the United States dwindled to only 500 eagle pairs in the lower 48 states by the nation’s 200th birthday. Today, their numbers are ten times higher. In 2007, the bald eagle was de-listed from the government’s Endangered and Threatened Wildlife list.

Even still, the birds aren’t completely out of the woods. DDT is banned in the US now, but other toxins like mercury and lead are fatal to the eagles, even in lower doses...

In the coming time, you may feel beset on all sides by the negative energy of others.  When this happens it is very important to remember to send, surround yourself with and know you are LOVE!  The Universe with its endless supply will never leave you lacking. ~ Creator

By Jack Adam Weber L.Ac., Dipl. C.H.

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

“Many people want to have love, but few are willing to become it.” ~ Rumi

When John Lennon convinced millions that “All you need is love,” I think he was wrong. Unless, of course, he meant love in a more all-encompassing sense than the feeling of love, which I don’t think he did. Maybe this is where the pervasive (and incomplete) meme began that good feelings are enough to change the world. Little could be further from the truth. So, I side with Rumi on this one.

t’s not enough to “love,” as in love the feeling. Love must also be an act, otherwise we can become too woozy and detached, and quite frankly, selfish, always pining for that feeling at any cost without considering that we can have it at any moment, by giving it. When we act lovingly, we become love. We also set in motion the likelihood that more will come back to us, as the other end of love, which we receive — Yang and Yin, respectively.

Photo by PocahontasBrandy, 2014

An intuitive message by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Your mission entails doing what you can to bring yourself and your planet into the light, and the harder you work (and play), the more you’ll achieve and the higher you’ll raise the collective vibration.

You have to remember to stay in an uplifted space yourself before you can properly uplift the rest of the world, and this is why you’re encouraged to play as hard as you work; have as much fun as you can and remember to make life enjoyable for the people around you.

You can only do so much to improve the quality of life of the people around you, but you’re encouraged to make any effort you can, big or small, to uplift them and everyone else who’s in need of the awareness and upliftment you’ve come to earth to provide.

By Nanice Ellis

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Have you ever lacked the confidence to speak your truth, express your creativity or even set boundaries? This is true for most people, but the real core issue is that we are not confident to be ourselves.

It’s funny to think that we need confidence in order to be our authentic selves, but it is true, nonetheless.

We are all born with innate confidence to be ourselves because we don’t know anything else. Try keeping a two year old from being himself. But as years go by, most children become socialized “not to be themselves.” A world where we are judged either worthy or unworthy is not a world where children, or adults, feel safe to be themselves. As time passes, the pressure and persuasion not to be oneself grows even stronger; “don’t do this, don’t do that, be this, but don’t be that.”

It is very easy to write 'don't let other people's thoughts and opinions influence you or define you' - it's a really common phrase and I'm sure I've written it plenty of times myself. However, let's be real: it is one thing to write it or be inspired by it, and another thing entirely to learn to actually be that way.

It is a growth process that can take a lifetime, to be so strong within yourself that you don't sway from your truth and centre when others criticise, misunderstand or judge you. Some people feel completely debilitated by external harshness. Most of us fall somewhere in the range of small, medium or mega wobbling like one of those bowling pin dolls.

Last week I had to wonder if someone had thrown some kind of agitating dust in the air creating mass wobbling because there were more than a few comments happening (anonymously on my blog) mis-interpreting my words and the words of others, creating an atmosphere that felt extremely judgmental and button-pushy.