Anna Hunt, Staff
Waking Times

According to a new study out of the University of Virginia, academic pressures of the United States (U.S.) educational initiatives, such as No Child Left Behind, and Common Core, have transformed kindergarten away from the much-needed focus on early social skills, play-based learning and other creative activities, into a rigid, taxing environment with far too much attention placed on academics and direct instruction.

The study’s researchers, Daphna Bassok, Scott Latham and Anna Rorem, compared kindergarten classrooms between 1998 and 2010 using two large nationally representative datasets. The aspects analyzed included teachers’ expectations, time spent on academic versus non-academic content, classroom organization, and standardized testing. Their assessment revealed that the experience in kindergarten has changed dramatically:

Can you look in the mirror at yourself with love today? Can you speak only tender words to and about yourself today? If this seems like a daunting task, you have just uncovered what is most pressing for you to do for your growth and evolution. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2016/04/09/daily-message-saturday-april-9-2016/

God said:

There could be another name for the Game of Life, and that is: On the Way to Peace, for, of course, you are. You are realigning yourself with Truth.

As it appears to you, My Children on Earth, life is not a game at all. It is a fight to the finish. You, of course, mistakenly accept death as the End of Life when there are no loose ends in Infinity or ends at all.

The only stop there is to Life is your body. You see essence packed in your body. You know yourself as known as a body. Your family and friends correlate you with your body, yet your body is like one of those signet bands around a cigar. The paper names the cigar it encircles. The cigar is wrapped up with the signet ring around it, yet the signet is not the cigar. Your perspective is off. You can get around in life that way until there is no cigar. Not even the signet remains in plain sight.

Yet those of you have apparently lost a loved one, you really do know that your loved one is no longer in the wrap-around sarong body that once seemed to carry your loved one's beautiful soul.

The physical body is something like a dog's collar around the dog, yet everyone knows the dog's collar is not the dog. The collar was always an adornment, nothing more. Your dog's leash is a physical tie between you and your dear dog, a visual and touch connection from one soul to another, much like holding hands.

If you make a decision and have to ask others if what you have done is ‘right’, it probably is not. Allow The Universe to be your guidance system. Truth exists there and it is waiting for you to claim it. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/is-this-right/

If you are experiencing a stressful time in your life, we encourage you to play a little game called “In This Right Now Moment”. Most stress is caused by the unknown of the future, or pressure for things to come together in a way that is satisfactory. Unfortunately, worry does not create any kind of positive fuel for your creations. In fact, it is your fear that something may not be good in the future that makes you have the experience not feeling good right now. You are instantaneously creating the very thing you fear through your focus.

The vast amount of time, your right Now moment is just fine. Your power to create desired change comes from harnessing the infinite power of the Now. So, if you find yourself consumed with worry about future outcomes, we invite you to check in with yourself and start to connect with what is right with your present moment.

For example, “In this right Now moment, I am warm, and fed, and safe.” “In this right Now moment, I am breathing, I am alive, and I am ok.” “In this right Now moment, everything is just fine. By focusing on the things that are working, I can ease my tomorrow.”

by Alanna Ketler, Collective Evolution

While it may seem obvious that a good hike through a forest or up a mountain can cleanse your mind, body, and soul, science is now discovering that hiking can actually change your brain… for the better!

Hiking In Nature Can Stop Negative, Obsessive Thoughts

Aside from the almost instant feeling of calm and contentment that accompanies time outdoors, hiking in nature can reduce rumination. Many of us often find ourselves consumed by negative thoughts, which takes us out of the enjoyment of the moment at best and leads us down a path to depression and anxiety at worst. But a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that spending time in nature decreases these obsessive, negative thoughts by a significant margin.

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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

‘Rockefeller’ and ‘Rothschild’ are two of the most common names discussed in the conscious community, and if you’re like me, all of the talk about them (and the so-called ‘elite’ families in general) has made you want to know more about what they’re doing and how they came to power.

In the interest of satiating curiosity, I’d like to look briefly at the history of the Rockefeller and Rothschild families and, in doing so, provide a glimpse of what these families have done to become so much more powerful than the government that they essentially own it.

If you’re going to research the history of families like these, I recommend alternative sources of information that can give you the full picture and provide clarity on why they’re mentioned so often in alternative circles.