An underwater volcanic eruption in the Ogasawara Islands archipelago gave rise to a new Pacific Ocean island in late November 2013.

The new island, named Niijima, was about 500 meters from Nishino-shima at the time, another volcanic island that last erupted and expaned in 1973/74.

Image credit: Japan Coast Guard (December 1, 2013)

The two islands soon merged into one and have grown more than 11 times in size by today.

Perhaps next scientists will realize kindness and compassion are forms of intelligence?

According to a new study conducted by researchers at York University, kindness, compassion and a sense of beauty developed in early humans long before intelligence did.

“Human evolution is usually depicted as driven by intelligence, with empathy and deeper emotions following,” said Penny Spikins, human origins researcher at  York University. “However, the evidence suggests it happened the other way round. Evolution made us sociable, living in groups and looking after one another, even before we had language.”

Our success since then, including the evolution of intelligence, all sprang from that,” Spikins said.

The more you choose to live from a place of inner knowingness, the more you can make your decisions from a place of certainty. Certainty is what exists beyond fear and doubt. It is a very solid energy, authentic, grounded, and magnetic, and because of its unshakeable nature, it is a powerful tool for creation and manifestation.

You have all been in a process of discovering who you really are, and from those efforts you will all be emerging as enlightening human beings who have evolved into a place of certainty, embodying their own divinity and BEingness. From that empowered place, you will be creating the life expressions, and the world you seek to experience, with a competency and satisfaction you have never experienced before. ~Archangel Gabriel

Many people are not comfortable sleeping naked, and that’s fine! Not everyone is going to be comfortable sleeping naked, however, it is important to acknowledge the benefits on sleeping naked when it comes to not only your health and well-being, but your love life as well.

Deeper Sleep

Certain forms of insomnia have been tied to faulty regulation of body temperature. According to The Los Angeles Sleep Study Institute, improper body temperature regulation not only throws off your regular sleep cycle, but it also impairs you from drifting into a deeper sleep state.

When you sleep naked, it allows your body to regulate its temperature properly so you don’t over heat and wake up in a sweaty mess.

What is all this about time and timelessness that confuse you? What more exactly do you need to know and what for? You can understand without conscious understanding. You can know without conscious knowing. You know long before you catch on what is written in your DNA and is bound to come out.

The human heart goes where the intellect pauses. Your heart gets it all. Your intellect would go in circles and leave you high and dry. The heart is where you live. The mind queries, much like a detective. The mind runs around with its microscope and makes up theories, reaches the door, yet cannot quite open it and venture in or far enough.

Don’t think I spurn the mind. Contrary to what you may have believed, it’s just that you can count on your bedazzled heart more than your brilliant mind. Your intellect may sputter. Your heart sits still in regions where your mind can only wander and speculate. At the same time, your heart, even when bedraggled, is the door that opens into the Abode of Heaven and Infinity from which all things come. The connection to all you seek is in your heart.

Infinity is like a pocket that you can reach into, yet there is no end to this pocket so you consciously do not reach the bottom of it, for, of course, it has no bottom so is not a pocket at all.

Ah, sweet mysteries of life and love and all the accompanying tones of the music that is played in a lifetime.

HJ: Success is the art of perseverance in the face of challenges, plain and simple.  If there’s a will there’s a way.  You will invariably face setbacks and challenges and unforeseen circumstances on your path but as long as you keep the faith and use simple questions like the ones in this article to keep you focused and on track, success is almost guaranteed.

- Truth

5 Simple Questions that Will Make You 5 Times More Successful

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

There’s nothing more disheartening than a perfectly healthy, reasonably affluent human being with the whole world in his or her hands who’s chronically unhappy and unproductive...

“I could wish that I had such power of language as should avail me to assure those who would set the worship of man above that of the sun. Those who wish to worship man (an historical Christ) make a huge error!” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The sun is such a regular and constant sight in our daily life that we seldom acknowledge its existence. The sun is one of the primary reasons that life exists on earth. How many of us have really thought of the possibility that the sun might be a conscious being? When you think of the relationship we all share with the sun, how can it be just a ball of gas when it is responsible for life on Earth?

The sound of the chirping birds at the break of dawn, or certain types of flowers that wait for the first ray of sunlight to blossom and revel in its beauty; this serves as a reminder of how nature is closely dependent on the sun. Even the beauty of sunrise and sunset touches us all.

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” It’s a fact we all know too well. But not all comparisons look like envy of others. The most subtle, yet equally challenging rivalry is the one we have with ourselves.

We’re in one place and we’d like to be in another. Or, we'd like to skip ahead to the point in time when we imagine everything to be amazing.

• Maybe you've started a business and you’re frustrated that it isn’t successful yet.
• Maybe you’re in a relationship and it’s not moving on your timeline.
• Or maybe you’re exercising and you’re not seeing the results you’d like.

I get it. I’ve been there. When I first started Aligned Holistics, I was pretty naïve. I thought it would be an instantaneous “I’m living my life’s purpose so the cash will flow in.” And it did, but certainly not on my timeline and definitely not in the way I originally envisioned.

Dear Ones, have you ever noticed how certain elements or experiences seem to loop around into your awareness? Often this is the recurrence of a theme that caused upheaval and required a lot of of work and healing to come through. A common reaction could be, “Oh, not this again! I thought I healed this!” Let us explain why this occurs.

When you are in the planning stages of your life expression, you know there are certain elements you wish to experience for your healing and growth. You are also aware that you will be having a free will experience, and will be in a place that involves forgetting what you know, to a great extent. So you will create these opportunities, scattered throughout your life expression to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for the experience to be had.

You make sure that it recurs, because you completely understand there is no guarantee you will master the situation the first time. This is not a form of self punishment to have conditions crop up that are ripe to go through an experience time and again. In fact, it is simply a loving opportunity, placed long in advance by you, for you, to give you ample potential to move into the mastery you seek.