Anna Hunt, Staff
Waking Times

For thousands of years, healers around the world have been using plants for their medicinal properties. It is only during the last 80 years or so that the new medical establishment has turned to chemical concoctions to treat diseases and ailments, and as a result, the public and medical professionals have lost much knowledge about the natural substances provided to us by Mother Earth.

Medicine was very different just eight decades ago. Below is a map from 1932 released by the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association which depicts some of the important species of medicinal plants that were native or cultivated in each state of the United States prior to the emergence of big-pharma.

If you finally allow yourself to heal from wounds that were inflicted from another, it does not mean that you think what happened was okay. It simply means that you have assumed the role of loving guide and parent for yourself and have decided to choose healing over hurt. You are completely capable of creating a safe space for yourself to do so, and to release yourself from the chains of pain that bind you with another. You can celebrate the fact that you are eternally whole and can centre yourself back into that truth whenever you like. Finding your way back to embracing your divine template of wholeness and wellness allows you to take the gift of any experience and leave the rest behind, and that, Dear Ones, is freedom. ~Archangel Gabriel

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God said:

Let Me remind you that We are seeking Self-sufficiency. You are My child, yet not My helpless infant.

Of course, I provide. In all Truth, I am the only One Who does provide. I am God from Whom all blessings flow. You are to honor others. You may be a great receiver, yet be cautious as rating yourself as a Prime Receiver of My Goodness even as you are.

There is no Best of All God’s Children in the Land. Be busy giving of your love to others than to be so in awe of the heights you like to think you have reached!

You are not exempt from responsibility to plow your own fields. You have no place nor time to think you know the whole score, and others -- or even one other -- does not.

I have One Child. Of course, you are glad and grateful when I come to your aid, yet, by all that is Holy, I don’t want you to be lazing around waiting for Me to rescue you. I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: Beat Me to it. Take initiative and get out there and make happen what you want to have happen. Rely on Me, yet don’t wait for Me. Get out there and work to serve Me and all of Humanity. I rely on you.

I do not raise you to ask Me for everything. I do not raise you so that you think you are entitled to special favor, and, that others, perhaps, are not so entitled. Be glad and grateful, and yet don't sit on top of Mount Ida and think you know more than others. Do not sit around thinking that you are more highly evolved than another. You might be surprised, beloveds.

It may seem like “enlightenment” is a place far far away – one that requires us to struggle and suffer to even get close. It may seem like in order to take this “path towards enlightenment” seriously, we need to have the right clothes, buy the right crystals, wear the right pendants, pay for the right courses and follow the right practices. According to these ideas, an enlightened person should look like this:

Enlightenment has become the new “promised land” of spirituality, the state that guarantees peace, happiness, joy and the fulfillment of all desires. It is often portrayed as the “guru” life, one where people will look up to you and consider you as “better” and “wiser” than them. To put it simply, enlightenment can become quite the obstacle to enlightenment.

Dear Ones, do you know what brings you joy? What you are passionate about? What makes your heart sing? Sadly, many of you have been so consumed with duty and caring for others, that your own joyful activities have gone by the wayside.

If you do not know what brings you joy, it is your sacred mission, right now, to figure that out. An easy way to get some clarity is to go to a book store or library and browse up and down every aisle. Where you linger the longest is an indicator of where your interests lay. This is an excellent way of discovering what draws you without investing a large amount of money and time.

We encourage you to decide right now, before the start of a new year, to actively pursue pastimes that make your heart happy, allow you to feel fully present, and honour your own interests. If you understand that following your passions puts you into alignment with your soul and Source energy, there is no such thing as being too busy do so.

Don’t pressure yourself to find the perfect activity or to excel at it. Enjoyment is the indicator of success in this situation, so try many things and if you don’t like something, try something else! It is a embarking on grand voyage of self discovery and joyful expansion, that you simply cannot get wrong. ~Archangel Gabriel

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