I’ve noticed the older I get, the faster the days, months and years seem to fly by. It all seems like a blur! So I’ve been thinking about ways to slow down my days and make each one fuller, and this is what I’ve come up with.

1. Take back your mornings.

Wake, coffee, work, home, sleep. Sound like a typical routine? Step one to slowing down my life was to take back my morning. I wake, I have coffee, I eat breakfast, I read a bit, I do a bit of yoga and meditation, and then I start my day. Do I wake earlier? Yes. But there’s something so nice about being up a couple hours before everyone else.

2. Be fully present.

Wherever you are, be there! Even if it’s somewhere unpleasant like the dentist’s office or stuck in traffic. The moment you’re in belongs to you, so live in it.

No, my love, you have not missed your chance.  Your dreaming has just begun!  Dream bigger, more beautiful and beyond anything you have ever imagined.  It is there just waiting for you. ~ Creator

Waiting for luck or good fortune to finally smile upon you is not an empowered way of living. It is waiting to be rescued, which indicates a belief that you think you are powerless and that life is something that happens to you. Dear Ones, that is much like sitting on a well stocked picnic basket, with your stomach growling, waiting for someone to come load your plate and feed you!

Your life is a co-creative process. You are the director of your team of helpers. How can you ever get the results that satisfy you if you are giving all your power away? How can your helpers satisfy you when all you hold is some vague desire for circumstances to sweep in and make it better? What does better mean to you? What can you do right now to embody what you wish to experience?

Assume your rightful role as CEO of your life expression. Declare what you wish to experience and then, with consistent focus and actions that match your intentions, watch the energies begin to respond to your leadership. It does not need to be hard work. Far from it! It is a joyful experience filled with excitement, magic and fun when you start to work with the incredible power of the flow and a completely cooperative universe, that supports you in whatever you choose. ~Archangel Gabriel

Source: www.collective-evolution.com | Original Post Date: October 21, 2013 –

The Department of Animal Care and Control estimates there are hundreds of millions of cats in our world today, with the US having the highest number of registered cats at around 80 million. That makes for a lot of hairballs. Cats have developed an interesting relationship with humans over the course of history, playing a key role in our survival during the dawn of agriculture and later becoming one of man’s best little friends. Some ancient cultures even worshipped the cat, seeing them as sacred animals that possessed inherent wisdom. Recent studies even reveal some unique healing abilities of cats.

Recent archeological findings reveal that cat domestication may date back even further than the ancient Egyptian era to around 9000 BC. In 2004 a Neolithic grave was excavated on the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, which contained the skeleton of a man and an African wild-cat, revealing an earlier relationship between man and the feline than previously thought...

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack answers this question, and intrigues us to consider the implications of this finding. Not all water is H2O, a radical departure from what you may have learned from textbooks.

Dr. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington professor of bioengineering, has developed a theory of water that has been called revolutionary. He has spent the past decade convincing worldwide audiences that water is not actually a liquid.

Dr. Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of bioengineering. For years, Dr. Pollack had researched muscles and how they contract. It struck him as odd that the most common ideas about muscle contraction did not involve water, despite the fact muscle tissue consists of 99 percent water molecules.

By Paul Brundtland

Many of us know that feeling, that nagging voice inside saying “No, I want it THAT way”.

One can argue that perfectionism can bring out the best in us and others in certain situations. The great inventors, artists, scientists, engineers and architects in history undoubtedly found themselves struggling to realize exactly what was in their heads, and pushing those involved past what had been previously considered acceptable.

But for many of us perfectionists, we’re often not talking about finding the perfect angle for a structural member in a building. We might be more at the scale of finding the perfect angle for the hat on our head or getting our look for the day perfect. Maybe it’s the perfect way to end an email or expecting the perfect response at the perfect time from a colleague, friend or partner.

“What’s wrong with that?”, you may ask. Well, nothing, if it causes you no tension and doesn’t drive the people around you mad.

Zen Gardner, Guest
Waking Times

I don’t know about you but the schism between truth and lies seems to be widening pretty drastically lately with a lot of confusion and disorientation sewn into the mix.

Just recently I’ve seen friends facing personal upheavals, con jobs, personal attacks from very strange quarters, new and very revealing understandings of personal perspectives and relationships, and just about everything, for myself as well.

It’s like we’re viewing the perceived world as being fractured into shards of broken off new perspectives to be grasped and understood, making the big picture that much more lucid.

If we connect the dots.

I’ve said for a long time the split between the willing awakeners and the willful asleep would widen and we’d see more and more psychotic behavior on the part of the truth resistant. The revelation of what’s really going on within these vectors of society, as well as in the so called Truth movement, are something to look out for and be consciously aware of.

By Jack Adam Weber L.Ac., Dipl. C.H.

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

From the get-go I want to clarify that by “victim consciousness” I do not refer to those who have been hurt and are earnestly trying to heal. I refer instead to those who have been hurt, as many of us have been, and take on victimhood as an identity, victimizing those around them, defending against goodness to remain in their suffering, and finding every reason not to heal, not to work out their issues, and therefore to deny joy.

“Victims” (as I will henceforth call the coveters of “victim consciousness”) are those who are attached to their suffering and cling to it. In contrast, those who want something more than egregious suffering gravitate towards letting go of pain even, and especially, by embracing difficulty. For the healthy and able person, this journey is a healing crisis on the way to more love and belonging. For the victim, his visit with disaster and misery is home base, what is comfortable. The healthy, courageous person lives through pain for transformation, while the victim stagnates in pain and creates protracted suffering for himself and those around him.