Take a moment and ponder this; every single person you have interacted with over the course of your Earth plane existence has given you something. Even if the ending of the encounter was not the best, something good came out of it. It may have been as small as
a recipe you would not have had before or something big….like learning to deal with a difficult emotion and know that you will still be okay after it is all said and done. When you choose to change the focus from ‘bad’ to good, you are giving yourself the wonderful gifts of forgiveness, acceptance and peace. Enjoy! ~ Creator

Soren Dreier, Guest
Waking Times

I’m continuously confronted with this argument from New Agers or people who are supposedly waking up: ‘My soul contract says…’ or ‘My soul contract forbids me this.’

The innovative quest and persistence for staying in spiritual control systems is amazing.

Have we replaced an earthly law firm entity with some heavenly contract agency that in its divine wisdom has terms set out, of what we can and cannot do, while we walk this earth?

There is no heavenly agency where you have a contract with more or less anal-fixated dis-incarnated bureaucrats who are disapprovingly following your every choice.

That’s not spirituality, that’s the opposite.

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Louis R. Valadez, Guest
Waking Times

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ~Albert Einstein

We often hear a lot about the great strength of the human intuition, but rarely are we taught how to accurately listen and perceive our intuition. Even though it has been proven time after time, that our intuition is often a better decision maker than our rational mind. And so, one must ask, how do we develop ...

Listen to Me. There is nothing to worry about. You can stop worrying right now. Half the time, you don’t even know what you are worrying about. You feel something unidentifiable hanging over you, and you worry about a vagueness. Worry assails you. And if you did not worry, you might worry about not worrying. What is worry all about anyway?
 
Worry has been such a hanger-on with you. You don’t know how to deal with its consultations and the anxiety it stirs within you. Be done with anxiety. What would you have to worry about then?
 
Worry with a focus also preoccupies you, as though worry is a safety measure that will offer you dispensation from cause for worry, and so you worry without cause. You can always scrimmage around for a worry.
 
Let’s face it. You have become expert at worry. You have become a professional worrier. Be less practiced in the art of worry. Be a novice. Better yet, don’t worry at all.
 
Worry holds you back. You teeter and totter with worry. You abuse yourself with worry. Worry brings you more and more and better worries. I ask you to desist from worry. You don’t need worry to pass the time. Get out of the worry mode.
 
If cause for worry befalls, it befalls. You don’t have to nourish it along. You are not here on Earth for the sake of worrying. Rather, you are here for a purpose that goes far beyond the reach of worry.
 

HJ: Challenges only become difficult when we resist them.  What you resist, persists.  And what flows shall pass.  And furthermore if you start looking for the lesson — the wisdom you can extract from the very thing you are experiencing that seems difficult or challenging in the moment — then your perspective shifts and that changes everything.

Life is what we perceive it to be.  Life is what we believe it to be.  So change your perceptions…  Change your beliefs… and you will change your results.  You are the artist painting the picture.  No one is forcing your hand.  You decide to what to create.  Will you paint big or small?  Will you paint something of beauty or something of pain…?  It is your choice…

- Truth

5 Steps for Getting Through Any Difficult Situation

How to survive and thrive during a ‘Lifequake’

By Howard C. Samuels, Psy.D. | Psychology Today

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September 11, 2001 started out just like any other Tuesday. Men and women all over the ...

Luke Nephew, Waging Nonviolence Guest
Waking Times 

Blood is dripping down our faces onto the stainless steel of the armored police van. The hot yellow light flickers against the angry eyes of six young black men. We are trembling in pain and rage. Our chests are heaving. We are still breathing. One man’s eyes stare into mine.

“They didn’t have to do that,” he says. He is shaking. “How they hit me in the face when I’m already cuffed? Kicked me too.”

We all chime in, recounting the details of how we were just brutalized.

“They kicked my ribs.”

“They straight smacked my face.”

“They scraped my skin across the asphalt.”

We had just been arrested by the police on the streets of North County St. Louis for peacefully protesting the murder...

My beautiful child; there will be people in your life completely committed to hurting you. They will say things that are not based in truth, they will be rude, mean or ignore you in a bid to get you to react in some way, any way…..for their satisfaction. During this time, you may feel at your lowest and most lonely,
but do not despair! Even as the tides change so will these situations. What felt like the end of your world today, will seem inconsequential tomorrow. Be strong, be courageous, be brave and know The Universe has much bigger plans for you than you could ever imagine. ~ Creator

Christina Sarich, Contributor
Waking Times

A group of international neuroscientists and robotics engineers have discovered for the first time that human brains can indeed ‘talk’ directly to one another, even from thousands of miles away.

A brain-to-brain communication study conducted in coordination with Harvard Medical School has proven that extrasensory mind-to mind interaction can happen over great distances by leveraging different pathways in the mind.

The study, coauthored by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brai...

Andrew Martin, WWOOF
Waking Times

While there may be some dogs on the properties you visit WWOOFING is not the kind that is typically associated with barking dogs or other canine species. A few years back now I had the good fortune to travel around New Zealand and spend a few months WWOOFING on the North Island of New Zealand.

It was an incredible experience and possibly one of the best practical educational experiences of my life. WWOOFING for the uninitiated is an acronym for Willing Workers on Organic Farms.

The simple idea behind the concept is to promote awareness of ecological farming practices by living and working on organic farms. WWOOFING also provides a cultural exchange for people of all ages and co...