An awakening is a highly rich and complex phenomenon that takes place, increasing your level of understanding and endowing wisdom.

When you experience a spiritual awakening, you are experiencing a state of enlightenment and people on this path undergo a great change within themselves.

Everyone taking the road less traveled to awakening, will experience tremendous growth.

The best definition provided for “enlightenment” is death and rebirth– a death to your former self and life to anew. A death to former ideologies and perceptions and birth to new life; a new a mind frame of reality.

An evolution of consciousness, and the ability to see and experience the world in it’s truest form of light and love. A world where everything is connected.

Joseph S. Gallwitz, Contributor
Waking Times

A tree falls in the forest. If no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Many reductionist scientists, and most open-minded scientists, will say yes, due to the propagation of sound waves. Some quantum researcher may argue that it does not, as the tree and forest do not really exist as such, unless it is observed to exist by conscious beings, like us, that may directly influence the reality around us.

NEW THOUGHTS, NEW BEGINNINGS    One of the laws of the universe is that like attracts like. If you are continually focused on being a victim and believe that everyone is out to get you or that you have bad luck, this is what you will attract to you. Your thoughts and things you pay attention to are what create your reality. In every situation, there will be people who see blessings and those who will focus on its curses. The good news is that each of you has the ability within yourself to transcend negative thinking.

Once you gain control of your thoughts, you will then be able to release belief codes and change behaviors that have kept you locked into negative thinking. Many of you are locked in suspension, not knowing which way to go. Those of you who are afraid to make the wrong choice, we suggest you go inward and allow yourself to experience what feels best at the time.

By Dr. Edward F. Group
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Fluoride was originally added to the water supply sometime around the end of World War II in an effort to improve overall dental health. Despite the well wishes, the public did not anticipate the physical health dangers. Now, more and more people are recognizing the effects, and one of those is how it damages the pineal gland.

If you’ve never heard of the pineal gland, know it’s got a pretty important job. Located in the center of the brain, it’s responsible for melatonin synthesis (which plays a role in maintaining normal rhythms and sleep cycles), and also helps convert signals between our nervous and endocrine systems.

Unfortunately, the pineal gland can develop problems because it can also absorb a lot of fluoride — even more than our bones.

By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

If I could give you just one piece of advice, it would be, “Trust Yourself.” Stop looking outside for the answers. Stop looking to others to tell you how to live your life – or to hand you temporary solutions to problems that only came about because you did not trust yourself in the first place!

Trusting yourself should be the most natural thing to do, but it’s not. Our world is structured, in such a way, that everything tells us, “Whatever you do, don’t trust yourself.”

If you cannot trust yourself, you are powerless to make good choices, which often leads to making choices based on pressure or opinions of others. Even if they are well-intentioned, no one ever knows what is best for you, but you. If you spend a lifetime dis-trusting yourself and seeking external guidance, eventually you end up with a life that doesn’t suit you or make you happy. If you do not trust yourself, you are also likely to repress self-expression, ultimately leading to chronic complacency or even depression.

Have you ever taken a moment to think about what joy really is? Joy is such a whole-hearted embracing of the present moment it creates a full alignment with Source energy. If you wish to experience more joy in your life, consciously seek out activities that make it easy to embrace your Now.

It may be choosing to notice the splendour of nature. It may be opening yourself up to a stream of creation by writing or creating art. It may be spending time with your loved ones, small children or animals. It may simply be moving your body in a way that feels pleasing, or meditating, or giving prayers of thanks. Choosing to be of service to others is a heart based flow that will lead you to the right time/right place scenarios that allow you to feel that alignment, as well.

Joy does not need to be elusive, Dear Ones. It is simply choosing to place yourself in the conditions that allow your full presence and appreciation, and with that preference and a little awareness, you will find you can enter into that state more often, with ease, over the simplest of wonders. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/08/09/daily-message-sunday-august-9-2015/

While you are here, remember to revel in your humanness! Very few of you choose to come to your Earth-plane. It can be challenging and painful but, it is also an experience of love, joy and truth. Learn well and have fun doing it! ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/have-fun/

"Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?"

There are few stand-ups in the history of comedy who possessed more passion and vitriol than Bill Hicks. As with all the greats (Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor) he pushed the art-form to its limits, extracting alchemical gold from some of the darkest aspects of the human psyche. Nothing was untouchable. Everything from the war on drugs to the abortion debate to television being ‘Lucifer’s Dream Box’ were covered during his seemingly off-the-hook but meticulously well-crafted stage performances. At one point he actually displayed footage he shot himself of the tragedy in Waco Texas to demonstrate how the media distorts the truth and crafts propaganda to fit its agenda. One need only watch a handful of his performances to get a clear idea of his on-stage persona as an angry, outside-of-the box thinker with a razor-sharp mind and wits set on ‘kill’.

By Charles Francis

We all have difficult people in our lives—some almost impossible to get along with. It seems like almost every time we engage them, we end up getting caught in a power struggle, which can often escalate into volatile situations. Though it is indeed a challenge to turn these relationships around, we can at least make the situations significantly better.

They Are Wounded People

The first thing we need to remember is that difficult people are that way for a reason. They are often angry at the world because they feel hurt and victimized by the general population, so they take out their anger on everyone they encounter.