Randi G. Fine, Contributor
Waking Times

Have you ever wondered why people who are strangers or people you hardly know open up to you and share their most trusted thoughts? Do you have an instant connection with animals? Are you unable to watch violence, cruelty, or tragedy on television or in the movies because your soul just can’t bear it? Do you have an instant knowing about the character of the people you meet upon first meeting them? Are you highly spiritual and find the physical world and everything in it heavy? Are you often tired and have physical ailments that cannot be medically explained? If you answered, “yes” to any of these questions you may be an “empath.

Empaths are people who are highly sensitive to the energy and the emotions of the people, animals, and sometimes even the spiritual imprints that exist around them. Some are even sensitive to the energy of plants. This ex...

My life can get kind of hectic sometimes, and I’m sure yours can too. That’s one of the reasons why I like taking quick 5 minute meditation breaks throughout the day. It’s a great way to recharge yourself midway through the day. Let’s get into the five reasons why we should all be meditating.

For starters, it increases your mental clarity. Do you ever get that midday fuzziness in your mind? Find it hard to focus? Meditation can help you put an end to that. Doctors studying the brain using Electroencephalography (say that ten times fast) have discovered that during meditation, the brain’s alpha and theta waves drop, while beta waves increase. This basically means that you’re consciously choosing to relax and your brain is responding by also relaxing. This relaxation helps keep the...

I stumbled upon this really excellent essay written by Lieutenant Commander Diane Goldstein. She has spent her entire professional life on the front lines of the “war on drugs” and can see through the facade into what it all really is. She penned this essay on Substance.com. Here’s part of it:

I was a police officer for 20 years, enforcing drug laws in California and thinking I was doing my part for society. But what made me think properly about drug use for the first time was my experience with my older brother, Billy. I had watched him struggle with a lifelong problem with drugs. But I still did not understand what it meant to be Billy until my husband convinced me to open up my heart and our home to save him in 2002.

It was in this intimacy of watching Billy try, during the year he lived with us, to live up to the expectations of society and those he l...

Grass is great, don’t get me wrong! Nice to sit on, maybe have a picnic, but at the end of the day, it’s an ecological disaster and an enormous waster of water. If you’re not going to go with the low water use method of xeriscaping, you’d might as well use that water for something productive, right?

Growing vegetables at home is one of my favorite things to do. The food is delicious, it saves money, and it’s helpful for the planet. Give it a try!

The post Watch: A Video Guide To The Benefits Of Tearing Up Your Lawn And Planting Food appeared first on Higher Perspective.

Last year, on a nighttime swim with Manta rays off the coast of Hawaii, these divers came upon a bottlenose dolphin hat lingered around them and appeared not to be able to swim normally. Keller Laros, the diving instructor, recognized that the dolphin wasn’t just curious but was asking them for help. It was then he saw a hook was lodged in his pectoral fin.

Wasting no time, Laros approached the dolphin. As if it knew exactly what was going to happen, the dolphin complied and positioned itself so that Laros could get the hook out of him. “I was at the right place at the right time. I am honored to share the footage with all of you,” writes Martina S. Wing, who shot the footage above.

The post Incredible! A Dolphin Tangled In Fishing Line Asks Divers For Help appeared first on Higher Perspective.

Keep looking up at the stars! Stars renew you. Stars are suns that brighten your heart. Want to be inspired? Look up at the stars.

You are My Created Being. We can say that you come from the stars. You are on Earth now, and yet you come from a different dimension from Earth. On Earth you may feel lonely. You may be a stranger to Earth but never to the stars. Do some star-gazing. Feel yourself drawn to the stars. No matter how far way science says the stars are, you are no distance at all from the stars. Of course, the same goes for Me. There is no distance from Me. Distance between Us does not exist.

If there were distance, We could not be One. The stars and you and I are also One. And the Moon and the Sun and the Waters of the Seven Seas, and all that exist in Heaven or on Earth are also One.

What a composition I created. What pictures I drew. What music I created. And now what a story you tell.

On Earth, you see differently from how you see in Heaven. You come from a different angle. Earth is new to you, and you look at it every which way. You look to recognize the beauty that you are accustomed to. You are exploring all the newness before you on Earth, and you yearn to make something of it. You want to see better and make out what life on Earth is really about. You wish to discern. You wish to see and feel the beauty that you have long been accustomed to.

I suppose it shouldn’t come as too much of a shock given how many stars are in our galaxy, and given the fact that most of those stars probably have planets. But a group of astronomers have published research that asserts the possibility of complex life on an incredible hundred million worlds in our galaxy alone.

It may seem like a lot, but it’s actually a pretty small number when you take into account the 17 billion earth-sized planets in our galaxy. At the very least, the conditions necessary to support life may exist on 100 million worlds, but maybe not necessarily complex life.

If this estimate applies to all galaxies, there could be as many as 500 billion planets harboring complex life. Wow!

Their research was published in Challenges of Astrobiology.

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HJ: The position of the stars and planets at the moment of your birth does not determine the course of your life.  That is up to you.  However, what it does do is bestow upon you the talents, dispositions and personality with which you will navigate your path.  And therefore it is hugely influential, but, as always, you have free will to decide what to do with what you have been given.

- Truth

October 2014 Horoscope – Astrological Psychology

By Dr. Ron Holman | Discerning Wisdom

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