By Zen Gardner
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

It is time for humanity to rise up.

If I see another “petition” asking for the selected “powers that shouldn’t be” to do this or that I’m gonna spit nails. It’s ridiculous. The very positioning of the populace into a place of “petitioning” others to get things done only reinforces the matrix of control and deceit.

The answer is to rise up.

This is done individually most of all, and collectively as a result...

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By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Overthinking is the best way to make ourselves miserable, and in my opinion, one of the most important aspects of our spiritual evolution is learning to decrease the mind-driven pressure we tend to put on ourselves and just exist, free of any stresses, worries or concerns.

Negativity is inevitable, and whether it’s from outside or within, we’ll always have to deal with it as long as we’re on this planet. We can choose how to handle it, however, and instead of feeding it or letting it bring us down, we can recognize that despite how real it seems, it’s always been an illusion.

As we’re learning, true reality is found when we transcend the rigid, overactive mind and find a place of peace and inner silence. We won’t find true reality by searching for it, externally or in the mind, and in my experience, the best way to find it is to stay active and progressive yet calm and silent within.

Throughout our attempts to stay active, we might find that our own mind makes us unhappy. Thought after thought tends to pour in regardless of our mood or our emotional state, and if we’re in a negative frame of mind, our thoughts will reflect that negativity and we’ll make ourselves miserable.

Dear Ones, heartfelt gratitude is a beautiful energy to choose for yourself. It is pure, it is high, and it has a powerful effect on your Now moment, as well as your future moments. You might consider it your way of sending a love letter to the universe. ~Archangel Gabriel

Open your eyes! You have been asleep a long time, my beloved. It is time to awaken to your infinite possibilities; to stretch, learn and grow. Breathe in your new day and welcome to it. You are beautiful! ~ Creator

Think of someone you know who is always calm. He or she never becomes rattled. You are lucky if you know one such person in a lifetime.
 
This person can have great responsibility at work, yet this person seems to take care of it all like a piece of cake. He doesn’t get harried. It doesn’t even seem a possibility to this person to have too much to do or to ever feel he is in a tight position.  He doesn’t seem to even get tired. He is bright, caring, vital, genuine, pleasant and never frazzled.
 
Oh, to have an employer like this. Oh, to be like this.
 
Of course, it’s possible that it never occurred to you to desire to be like this. Yet what a boon this person is, and you could be this person.
 
There are things you cannot ever be in this lifetime, yet this is something you can be.
 
I bet you anything that this easy-going person came to it. I bet he had his rough days, and everyone could tell. It took no special announcement so that you could notice.  Perhaps he clenched his teeth and perspired under the strain he felt. I bet you anything that this calm person you know today has really come to this point. He isn’t covering up how he feels. He simply learned along the way to take everything in his stride. He learned not to make a big deal of life as though the sky would fall if he were not tense. Rather, he learned to be calm as he went along.