Brendan D. Murphy, Guest
Waking Times

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~Charles Swindoll

The notion that how we feel is merely caused by events around us or directly involving us, is a scourge of our modern times. To believe that the external world and its perceived relationship to us is the major determinative factor in how we feel (“I can’t believe he/she said that to me—that’s so outrageous!”) is disempowering and self-destructive.

We impose our “shoulds” on what we perceive as “the world out there”, and then when it fails to live up to our arbitrary and abstract standards, we pout, mope, grumble and complain that it “should” have been different. Rather than tweaking our perception, we demand that the thing we perceive should tweak itself! When people fail to conform to our whimsy, we often then fall into yet another error avoided by the mindful: we replay upsetting events (events that we perceived as upsetting) and our emotional response/s to them in our heads over and over, further upsetting ourselves!

HJ: Creativity, insight and inspiration are the products of habit, not chance or luck.  Like sowing seeds in a garden, you must plant the seeds of creative inspiration in your life and particularly in your brain.  And furthermore these can be planted by adopting certain mindsets and ways of viewing the world and approaching life.  In fact, there is an entire science of modeling these traits from the worlds most successful and/or creative people — it’s called Neuro Linguistic Programming (or NLP for short) and it is very powerful.

Either way you go about it, the article below is a quick, powerful primer on how to train you brain to quickly get in touch with your creativity, insight and inspiration and make it an integral and effortless part of your day to day life.

- Truth

Insightful Thinking: How to Do It

You can learn how to be more creative.

By William R. Klemm, D.V.M, Ph.D. | Psychology Today

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1. You’re more in touch with your spiritual foundations through transformative meditation:

You realize, as Jung noted, that “the experience of the Self is always a defeat for the Ego.” And through the seven primary chakras you are becoming one with the cosmos, receptive to stimuli to which, in the time before, you were insensate.

You’ve felt the powerful kundalini energy rising up from your roots, passing through the sacred waters of the sacral, basking in the fire of the solar plexus, breathing in the vital breath of the heart, absorbing the ethereal voice of the throat, pouring through the dissolution of the Third Eye, and spilling up and out like a mighty fountainhead into the greater cosmos.

2. You are beginning to want more freedom and less stuff

By Lissa Rankin MD

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

When I talk to some people about spirituality, they commonly respond with, “Oh, but I’m not religious,” to which I respond, “Yeah, me neither.” Then they look a bit puzzled. The way I see it, every religion is some human being’s interpretation of spiritual principles, and while there’s a lot of overlap in the teachings of all religions that probably points to some spiritual truth, I find myself resisting any dogma that says that one way is “The Way” and everything else is hogwash.

By Zen Gardner

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Many of the symptoms we’re witnessing amongst those around us can be explained in terms of the vibrational change we’re undergoing. The shift is on, and people are responding by either welcoming or resisting it at all kinds of levels. It’s quite a fascinating phenomenon to behold, as well as a bit disturbing as people who don’t get it lash out at whatever influence they perceive is the culprit for their disorientation.

Fascinating stuff, but intrinsically important to what’s happening here at the surface level.

Most importantly is the personal level of this transformation that’s happening whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Fighting the structural degradation of old paradigms is always a messy affair, with seeming little to support our old viewpoints, except desperate grabbing on to old thought patterns and resultant behaviors which have shaped our lives. Such is the death of the old.

Mike G, DeSmogBlog
Waking Times

The threat posed by fracking to water quality is an issue receiving a lot of attention lately (see here, here, andhere, for instance), as is the looming collapse of the fracking boom. But the Center for Environmental Health, suspecting that the whole story wasn’t being told, partnered with 15 different local, state, and national organizations to study fracking’s impact on the air we breathe, and the results are not pretty.

Your reality, your paradigm, your existence is exactly how you wish it to be. The power of creation or destruction is in your hands. ~ Creator