HJ: To feel and be empowered is a key quality necessary to step into your full potential and reach the highest levels of self-actualization.  This is a power that comes from being unabashedly you — a power rooted in deep self-love and acceptance.  It is one of the most beautiful states of being a person can achieve and it bestows a charisma and natural attractiveness in the best possible way.  People want to be in your presence and shower you with love.

It is rare in our society and therefore exceptional.  When you fully tap into your personal power, the world bows at your feet and anything truly becomes possible for you.

The article below is designed to get you in touch with this momentous force within you, if that is something you seek.

- Truth

The Powerful Self

Would you rather feel powerful or be powerful?

By Steven Stosny, Ph.D. | Psychology Today

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Basketweaving 101 ~ Weaving Happiness into Your Vibration

by Jennifer Deisher

Happiness is a factor of life and one well worth striving for. It’s a necessary component for us to completely embark on a spiritual path. Our heart, soul, and spirit don’t live in the energy of “not good enough”, or where there isn’t enough time, or in our negative energy. Let’s face it, some of us have had our fair share of addiction, trauma, and tragedy. Those who have experienced some of the more “hard core” issues, or are currently working through them, may find that sometimes we have to work a little harder to find our Joy.

Many of us have experienced the fallout of what we sometimes call “the matrix”. I prefer to think of it as limited patterns of controlling behavior which constricts our true power as creators because we think we have a limited amount of choices. What we forget sometimes is that we actually have to learn or re-learn how to be Happy...

Lean back. Forget about what’s on your mind. Let your mind be free and your heart full. Life is not an ogre that you must run away from. Life stirs your heart. Let life stir your heart clockwise, not counterclockwise.
 
Life may keep you on your toes, yet life succors you. You may often feel that life is after you, and you wish life would mind its own business and be on the sidelines. The truth is that you are on the sidelines. You just haven’t learned this. Although you do set up your life and point it in certain directions, life isn’t for you to boss around. Life is not meant to be a call to arms. Life accommodates you as much as it can. Even when you feel steamrolled or railroaded, life isn’t steamrolling you or railroading you. It’s just that life has a different agenda from yours. In a manner of speaking, you are not meant to take life personally.
 
If you did not take life so personally, you would not be so fraught about life. There doesn’t seem to be any end to what you take on to worry about in life.
 

The Homegrown Revolution has been called a new revolution in urban sustainability, and we feel compelled to agree! Cities are becoming more and more filled with urban blight; the green spaces are fewer and further between, and all the food needs to be trucked in from elsewhere. Which is where urban homesteads are coming into the picture.

The Dervaes family has transformed their home in Pasadena into an urban homestead model. They’re able to harvest three tons of food off their 1/10th acre garden, all while taking advantage of back-to-basics practices, getting off the grid with solar energy and biodiesel.

This is the way of the future, and it’s a revolution I’m happy to be a part of.

We get so caught up in avoiding the things that are bad for us or that we don’t want for ethical reasons that sometimes we forget to praise the good things out there. Below is a list of 400 food companies that have declined using GMO ingredients in their products. They should be rewarded with our business for opting not to use frankenfoods.

365

479 Degrees

A. Vogel

Adams Vegetable Oils

Agrana

Agricor Inc.

Ah!Laska

Alexia...

And not the kind of drug you’d probably truly enjoy. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Terence McKenna talk about social issues and our culture as a whole. In this video, McKenna talks about television, and how your TV communicates mass-violence and brainwashing materials 24/7.

The average American now watches TV about as much as they work; 40 hours a week. That’s 8 hours of television, 5 days a week. Isn’t that just insane? Going out into the world and seeing nature, new people, and new places is better than any television show you’ll ever watch...