Source: www.nationofchange.org | Original Post Date: July 5, 2015 –

According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could benefit.

Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much money and went broke; the generous banks gave them money, but Greece still can’t pay the bills because it mismanaged the money that was given. It sounds quite reasonable, right?

Except that it is a big fat lie … not only about Greece, but about other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland who are all experiencing various degrees of austerity. It was also the same big, fat lie that was used by banks and corporations to exploit many Latin American, Asian and African countries for many decades.

Greece did not fail on its own. It was made to fail.

By Raluca Schachter
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

“Antioxidant” — these days, definitely a buzz word used by everyone interested in holistic health, or hoping to find a panacea for their multitude of ailments. Look online or in health food stores today and you’ll find a huge variety of precious antioxidants for sale – capsules, powders, fruits and tinctures from all over the world. Most of us have now found out about acai, maqui, goji berries, raw chocolate, green tea, blueberries and the rest.

Antioxidants are feted for their never ending list of health benefits… but are they really the magical cure-alls we’re led to believe? As so often the case, it’s not quite that simple. 

What Are Antioxidants and Why Do We Need Them?

An antioxidant is a nutrient or a molecule capable of suppressing the oxidation of another molecule. Antioxidants suppress the negative effects of excess free radicals. They are of two kinds: exogenous (from food, like vitamins C,E, A, D) or endogenous (produced by the organism: catalase, superoxide dismutase, gluthation, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid.)

By Dr. Joseph Mercola
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world. An estimated one billion pounds a year is sprayed on our food crops,^1,2 resulting in the average American eating several hundred pounds of glyphosate-contaminated food every year.

How might that affect your health? Dr. Anthony Samsel is an expert in this area, and he reveals a number of glyphosate’s adverse effects. Armed with this understanding, you’ll likely be far more motivated to eliminate this pernicious toxin from your diet — and to take action to get it out of our food supply so that everyone can be protected.

Dr. Samsel is a research scientist who is passionate about farming, gardening, and agriculture, making him particularly suitable for investigating glyphosate.

You possess something that never has, does not and never will exist again; the ability to be exactly who you are in this moment.  These moments, are precious and completely unique…….show them to the world and remember you are loved for it! ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/be-you-2/

“So, what do you do?”

This is a question I often get asked.

It’s a question with many answers.

I do a lot.

I breath. I sleep. I eat. I spend my days with my 3 kids.

These answers I know are not what people who ask that question want to hear. Really they want to know what I do that defines me or more precisely what is my job.

Strange really how our jobs define us as people. We are writers, electricians, teachers, administrators, etc.

But are we really? Do any of the above actually define who or what we are?

I say no way. We are so much more than what pays our bills or where we drive to each day.

By Jack Adam Weber

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

You likely don’t know the treasure-trove of wisdom contained in the Yin-Yang symbol. Much of it in fact was not even taught to me in Chinese medicine school. This ancient symbol has been a subject of deep meditation and learning for me over the last couple decades. So, I will share with you here the essence of how valuable this symbol is for our healing and thriving.

Without light and goodness, life is meaningless. Yet so much of the light we need is paralyzed in violence and greed, pain and suffering. The way to release these hidden riches and create more light and love is through transformation. This yields sustainable light, when the dark has been befriended and healed, transformed into an ally.

by Dr. Terry A. Gordon

While walking through the forest last fall, I acknowledged that summer had run its course and was yielding to autumn. The brightly colored leaves made it obvious that change was occurring.

A gust of wind blew through the canopy of trees causing several leaves to let go of their attachment to the trees. As they slowly drifted down, the leaves spoke volumes to me.

If you think about it, the only constant in life is that everything changes. We are different from breath to breath. The river as it flows past   will never be the same river again. Nothing remains the same — ever.

As painful a task as it may seem, change requires that like the leaves, we must let go. It’s unnerving when we contemplate changing prevailing thought. Copernicus tried to do that when he presented proof that the sun and the solar system in fact did not revolve around the earth as religious leaders of the time had taught. He was denounced as a blasphemer by the Church and was forced to recant. Not surprising, it took over 300 years for the Church to finally accept that Truth, an awakening that forever changed the institution.

The ego loves homeostasis. We self-sabotage so that things will stay the same.  The moment things change, new results are manifested.

Anything that is unknown, which is any type of change, triggers a fear within us. That fear is normal and healthy for our survival. What is unhealthy is when we allow that fear to outweigh our desire to make positive changes. When that happens, we sabotage our efforts and get “stuck”.

Everyone’s ego will kick in at a certain point in their “changing” process:

1. Fearing Change at the Mental Level 

Some people are completely closed off to any new, out-of-the-box ideas because they conflict with a pre-existing belief. To them, a brand new idea could potentially create a lot of change at the mental level. Everyone usually knows at least one of these people. When you introduce them to a new concept they will often staunchly argue their point of view without listening to you, or shut the discussion down completely. This is their ego interfering with their ability to accept new ideas because of a deep fear of change at the mental level.