HJ: Inner wisdom and strength are your guides down the twisting and turning path of life.  The more you cultivate these skills, the better your life will become.  However, quality guidance in this area is sparse at best.  Below you will find an article by Rick Hanson based on a lifetime of experience and study that is filled with gems and wisdom to help you grow and expand in this area.

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Grow Inner Strengths

Inner strength like resilience and compassion are vital for well-being & success

By Rick Hanson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today | Rick Hanson

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What would make a difference inside you?

The Practice: 
Grow Inner Strengths.

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More and more, people are concerning themselves with their overall health. Drinking water in the morning is a great way to get your body’s functions going after your sleeping fast, but adding one tablespoon of honey and a little bit of lemon juice yields great health benefits like:

• Reduced weight
• Energy
• Purification of the body
• Antimicrobial effects
• Helps with coughs or head colds
• Immune strengthening
• Accelerated metabolism
• Helps with constipation
• Calms the nerves
• Removes bad breath

Try it out and let us know what you think!

I am the Creator, and We can say that you are the Experiencer of Creation. We can also say that you create along with Me. Creator and Experiencer, Experiencer and Creator are One. Two edges of the same sword, so to speak, except the sword is Love, and there are no two edges. Hold your Greatness and Humanness in Good Stead.
 
Would you, those who see themselves as across from Me, defame what I have created? Would you defame the Creator, the Created, and the whole process of living Life? All is not as you think. All is not as you see.
 
All My Children are Heroes of the Day. There is no least of you. There is no one who comes last despite what you believe. There is no fol de rol. Think of it, lives portrayed on Earth, and you are part of it. You are swept up in the Adventure of Adventures.
 
You are at a Feast, and you eat a Fabulous Meal. All of life is incredible in its Exquisiteness. Food is as delicious as the Queen’s Banquet, and all are guests everywhere.
 
Sorrow is an illusion, as if love can be lost or less than I say it is. 
 

Consumer Reports, the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization/magazine, has thrown its support for GMO labeling, and advocates are cheering the support.

On Tuesday, Consumers Union, their policy arm, began touting two studies on consumer behavior and product claims in support of genetically modified food labeling ballot issues in Colorado and Oregon. Consumer Reports is occasionally involved in other policy issues, but the GMO labeling mandate is the only one the nonprofit will be involved with this election cycle.

“Foods that are frozen, made from concentrate or homogenized are all required to be labeled. Why shouldn’t products containing GMOs also be ...

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Waking Times

Fancy yourself a connoisseur of all things weed? Then see whether this trip from ancient China to modern Alaska takes you anywhere unexpected.

What do Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, Maya Angelou and well over 100 million Americans all have in common? They’ve all smoked pot. Throughout its history, marijuana has attracted plenty of unexpected users and proponents. And much of the history of greenery is now familiar to us—thanks to History Channel specials, the burgeoning legalization movement and the popularity of anti-pot propaganda films like

I used to think that religion was for idiots and spirituality was for hippies. I was a teenager who wanted to believe that the only things that were real, were the things I could see. Perhaps I was spurred on by the fact that my brief stint with Wicca in the 8th grade did not bear the fruits I desired. More likely, being “atheist” was considered cool and I worked desperately to cultivate an air of calculated indifference on these matters. (I failed quite spectacularly at that, by the way. I care too much.) But more than anything, I felt abandoned and wanted to remain depressed.

Like anyone who naturally favors extremes, it was only a matter of time before I exhausted that and came to believe that a power greater than myself may indeed exist. The only problem was that no religion aligned with what I intuitively felt, leading...