If you think of your worries and problems as quicksand, the more you struggle and push against them, the more you will become stuck. You simply cannot create change by pushing against what you do not want because it only engages you further into what you do not want.

Even if someone came along to save you from the quicksand, if you were struggling and resisting, it would be very difficult for them to pull you out. If you surrendered, and put your focus point on a place that was far more in line with where you wanted to be, the assistance would be able to move you to a new, much comfortable space quite quickly.

Do you ask for help and then continue to resist? Why not try asking for help and then surrendering to it, knowing it will always take you somewhere more desirable? Struggle and resistance can never get you where you wish to go, Dear Ones. Surrender and flow allows your helpers, your guides, your highest self, the masters, the universe to assist you, the fastest, most efficient way possible. ~Archangel Gabriel

Source: www.drugpolicy.org | Original Post Date: November 5, 2014 –

When historians look back at the movement to end the war on drugs, they might very well point to the 2014 election as the moment when it all got real.

With marijuana legalization measures passing in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., and with groundbreaking criminal justice reforms passing in California and New Jersey, there’s no longer any denying that drug policy reform is a mainstream — and quite urgent — political demand.

These wins will boost efforts already underway in states such as California, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Arizona to end marijuana prohibition in 2016, as well as efforts in Congress and around the country to scale back the disastrous policies of mass incarceration.

And speaking of 2016, yesterday’s results now mean that Presidential candidates and other prominent candidates for public office will have no choice but to take positions on these issues...

Source: www.collective-evolution.com | Original Post Date: November 9, 2014 –

The world’s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the Netherlands! The bike path that connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer is a 70-meter stretch of solar-powered roadway set to open for the public on November 12th, 2014.

The new solar road, which costs €3m (AUD$4.3m), was created as the first step in a project that the local government hopes will see the path being extended to 100 metres by 2016.

More complimentary plans are also on the table as the country intends to power everything from traffic lights to electric cars using solar panels.

By Garrick Dee

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

A glass of lemon water to start your day can help keep the doctor away. Why do I say that? According to Hippocrates “All disease begin in the gut”, and modern research has also concluded that an unhealthy gut environment impacts the immune system and leads to a myriad of diseases.

Drinking vitamin C rich lemon water (especially first thing in the morning) helps your gut by stimulating the production of hydrochloric acid, a critical ingredient needed by our stomach to digest and expel waste. Lemon is known to neutralize free-radicals in our body, and helps greatly in balancing our body’s pH levels (more on that below). And there are more benefits that I want to share with you too.

By Ethan Indigo Smith

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” ~ George Orwell

As with most societal dynamics, there are various approaches and thought-processes we can employ to help us make sense of the unpredictable nonsense that constitutes today’s politics and corporate spin.

There are four forms of political lies.

Those involved in politics – the politicians, reporters and corporate lobbyists – are constantly lying. We all know it, we just don’t all appreciate the scope of it. Of course, there is outright lying which might be done in any number of ways, including complete conjuration and outright elimination of important information. However corporate heads, politicians and their faithful media normally prefer more nuanced presentations to their lies — so it pays to understand just how they go about it.