“I am a sensory being full of creative potential. I embrace life with passion & enjoy plunging in joy and happiness. My senses are alive, aware and connected.” ~ an affirmation reads

Sacral chakra or Swadhisthana chakra is the sensuality centre of the body, a hub of creativity, emotions, passion, pleasure and giving & receiving acts. It is responsible for the existence of our individual consciousness, as it acts like a magnet to attract the reality, that mirrors the thoughts and feelings stored in this chakra. All your unconscious desires, especially sexual desire, is stored here.

It is associated with the element of water, the sense of taste, and the act of procreation. Sacral chakra is the seat of the self where, Swa means ‘I’ and dhisthana means ‘seat’. Symbolised by an orange lotus flower, the six petals are significant for our emotional connect, affection, delusion, destructiveness and feelings of contempt. An imbalance in the chakra can lead to sexual difficulties, confusion, purposelessness, jealousy, the desire to possess, overindulgence in food or sex and problems in the genital area, bladder, spleen etc.

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An intuitive message by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

You have every reason to be joyful and celebrate your existence, but it’s easy to feel like you should stifle your excitement because of the bad things that happen on your world every day.

It’s easy to convince yourselves the world is an awful place to live, but life is what you make of it and if you’re willing to have a positive perspective in the face of every negative situation you face, you’ll realize that life doesn’t have to be as difficult as it’s been made out to be.

Your life on earth is precious, and you only get one chance to participate in the shift that’s taking place.

You’re encouraged to do as much as you can in your short time on earth, and when you don’t feel motivated to contribute, you’re encouraged to find some way to rekindle your spark and realign with the motivation and excitement that come with participating in a collective spiritual evolution.

Fifteen brave students at the for-profit Corinthian College announced this week that they will refuse to pay their federal student loans, launching an unprecedented U.S. student debt strike.

The students hail from Corinthian Colleges Inc., a chain of for-profit schools that has been plagued by allegations of fraud and predatory lending. Corinthian faces hundreds of individual lawsuits, including one by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which accused Corinthian of juicing job placement numbers and conning students into predatory loans. And everyone from the Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), to a group of Senators led by Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have called on the Department of Education to forgive Corinthian debt.

But rather than wait for the Department of Education to heed these calls, these students have taken matters into their own hands, and called the debt strike.

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Portland residents can now generate green electricity simply by turning on their water taps and flushing their toilets. Fast Company reports that the Oregon city is using a state-of-the art system to capture energy from water flowing through the city’s pipelines. Small turbines installed inside the pipelines are turned by the flowing water, sending energy into a generator and off into the power grid.

“It’s pretty rare to find a new source of energy where there’s no environmental impact,” Gregg Semler told Fast Company. Semler is the chief executive officer of Lucid Energy, the Portland start-up behind the new system. “But this is inside a pipe, so no fish or endangered species are impacted. That’s what’s exciting.”

By Phil Watt

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

We all meditate, whether we know it or not. This is because meditation occurs when we alter our brain wave frequency, and different activities, such as exercise, can do it naturally. Once we are aware of this, we can consciously participate in the ways in which we do meditate.

And considering how productive meditation is for our health, recognising the moments in which we are meditating in action will potentially increase its benefits.

Another sure-fire way to reap the rewards of meditation is to incorporate into our daily routine. Many people have wanted to try meditation, but never have, or they did but gave up after a relatively short time. This might be due to different reasons, such as they didn’t think that they were learning anything, it was too tedious and ineffective in the short term, they didn’t want to invest the time required or they felt they didn’t have the capacity to become advanced at it.

By Emmanuel Thelamour

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Love… The ever illusive word that carries multiple definitions. If I were to ask what does love mean to you, I would have countless answers. In some way, I can imagine that most of the answers would sound the same. But, what is love really?

Is it that feeling I get when I give family members or friends a hug? Perhaps it’s the one that I get when I lock eyes with someone who can see into my soul. It may be the waves of emotion that hits me when I look into someone else’s eyes and see their life story as my own. It may be that rapturous moment that occurs when you realize just how much a part of this world you are.

Love may seem like an abstract subject, however it is very easy to pick up on tangible acts of love when you see them in the world around you.

By Marc and Angel

Sometimes changing your circumstances isn’t possible – or simply not possible soon enough.  You can’t get to a new job in an instant.  You can’t make someone else change against his or her will.  And you certainly can’t erase the past.  So what options do you have left?

Change your perception, belief or opinion about your circumstances.  Doing so will help you change your attitude and ultimately allow you to grow beyond the struggles you can’t control.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said it perfectly more than 2,000 years ago: “People are disturbed, not by things (that happen to them), but by the principles and opinions which they form concerning (those) things. When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles and opinions.”