HJ: Developing emotional intelligence is one of the primary keys to living a deeply fulfilling and successful (how you define that in YOUR own terms) life because it is one of the most fundamental skills we need to navigate our daily lives.  However, it is definitely not taught in most schools or by most parents.  It is something we develop as we travel down the path of self growth and discovery.  Those who master it become masters of their life.

Below you will find 6 of the most important and essential keys to developing your emotional intelligence.

- Truth

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence ― 6 Essentials

Six Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

By Preston Ni, M.S.B.A. | Psychology Today | Preston Ni

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So many of you put tremendous pressure on yourselves in your enlightenment process. Please hear us when we say that you are remarkable beings. You are so innately good, so divine, so brave, so capable! You are the ground crew, choosing to have the experience for all of us to learn and grow from. Just the fact that you have shown up on your planet tells you that you are successful. Take the pressure off yourselves. Know that you are doing a magnificent job. Your unique beingness is more than enough to add immeasurably to the whole! You are loved […]

RELATIONSHIPS   Think of the base of a building in which there are four pillars. If one pillar collapses, the building will fall. The four basic pillars of relationships are love, kindness, empathy and trust. Each of these encompasses a broad range of emotions and possible experiences. Love ranges from absolute hatred or fear to unconditional love. The parameters of kindness range from co-dependency to allowing others to follow their dreams. Empathy ranges from being completely ignorant of another’s emotional state to a feeling that you must persuade others to embrace your beliefs. Trust ranges from total wariness to seeing another as a great Master. Some foundations will remain at a superficial level. These are generally relationships with people you’ve just met or run into occasionally such as the grocery store clerk, post office personnel and people you meet on the street or at social gatherings. Your relationships with these people are dependent on your life experiences and belief codes. If the pillars (belief codes) you set for your relationship foundation include, “If I let someone get close to me, they can hurt me. If someone is kind to me, then I will have to repay that kindness. I don’t want to be bothered by others’ problems; they need to take care of their own problems. People have to earn my trust,” your relationships will likely not grow beyond the moment; there is no bonding. If the pillars you have created include belief codes such as, “In essence, all people are good. I love all without conditions. People are kind.

Dr. Bruce D. Perry is one of the world’s leading pediatric neuroscientists, and he’s making a claim that will rattle the pharmaceutical industry and parents. Perry recently stated publicly that Attention Deficit/Hyper-Activity Disorder isn’t a real disease and suggested that giving children psycho-stimulant medications to kids is dangerous.

Perry told the Observer, “It is best thought of as a description. If you look at how you end up with that label, it is remarkable because any of us at any given time would fit at least a couple of those criteria.”

And if you look at the symptoms of ADHD, it really does seem like we could all identify a symptom or two in ourselves, right? From WebMD:

• Difficulty paying attention to details an...
  

Universities in Germany will begin offering tuition-free higher education beginning this week after Lower Saxony changed its policies to fit the remainder of the country.

“Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped its fees in 2012. “It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”

I think a lot of citizens in the U.S., being choked to death by massive student loans to pay for a college education that doesn’t get you a job would agree.

A spokesman for Germany’s Social Democrats, who are the leading political party in the nation, said during March’s elections, “Tuition fees keep young people from low-income families from studying and are socially ...

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Tomorrow’s “Blood Moon” is the second in an incredibly rare set of four lunar eclipses that will be visible across North America.

Lunar eclipses occur because the moon passes behind the Earth and into our shadow. This alignment usually occurs only once every couple of years. This year’s lunar eclipse is one of a tetrad, or series of four, over the next two years. We won’t see this tetrad again for two decades.

Almost all of North America is going to be able to view this beautiful spectacle, particularly the western US. It will also be viewable in Hawaii, Australia, Japan, and most of the Pacific. The eclipse will begin in your evening hours if you live in one of those regions.

In South America, only early stages of the eclipse will be visible. The moon won’t be in y...

Never forget where you came from.  Even though the conditions of your arrival may not have been optimal, your early learning experiences challenging and your lessons trying to your soul, you wanted to go…..you were joyous and excited about your choice.  And each day your strength, courage and faith is honored with the Divine Song that flows from The Universe to you! ~ Creator

DREAM SYMBOLS   The value of dreams cannot be overstated. Perhaps you have a problem to be solved and that night you dream of a wonderful solution. At other times, the dreams are entangled masses of events or thoughts you had that day or in the recent past. Dreams such as premonitions that come true, can be very profound. Flying, being naked in public places and other such “non-reality” dreams many times are symbolic and sometimes provide clues to intentions you have set in your conscious state. Some dreams are just plain fun, they may reflect how you felt after having a day where everything flowed well for you. Some dreams are just plain strange and may reflect several issues your busy mind is working on. Symbols are “archetypes,” or representations of emotions, objects or events. Look more deeply at the archetypes in your dreams and what they mean to you, personally. For some, roses are symbolic of Mother Mary. Perhaps for you, when you smell roses, it reminds you of a loved one who grew beautiful roses and has now passed away. In your dreams, it is possible that this loved one is trying to contact you. When your mind is relaxed while sleeping, it is sometimes easier for those on the Other Side to make contact. Dreams can help to solve problems and lead you to a life of abundance. It is important to pay attention to recurring dreams. It is also good to decode the symbols in your dream time. Once you understand the symbology, it is much easier to understand your dreams.

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

At this moment in time, as we stand on the precipice of devolution or evolution, what does ‘pay attention’ mean to us? Our hearts seek wisdom and courage, and the justified faith that attention can bring. We came into this, so is attention the price of being born… an obligation?

At the moment I’m thinking that there sure is an obligation; an obligation an awful lot of humans seem to have forgotten. Or maybe, if I am to be kind and more accurate, attention has been and is completely conditioned and programmed out, i.e. “Here are your blinders… learn to regurgitate the opinions we give you, pay attention to the rules, and have a nice day!”

We’re subjects… trapped until we insist on seeing. When we are fitted with the blinders, what h...