Richard Smoley, New Dawn
Waking Times

Politicians constantly evade the truth. Why can they get away with it? According to a recent study conducted at Harvard University, it’s because people have such terrible attention spans.

Behavioural scientist Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School and Michael I. Norton of the Harvard Business School conducted a simple experiment to see when and whether people can detect a dodge. They recorded a speaker answering a question about universal health care (a controversial issue in the US). Then they attached the same answer to three separate questions: the original question about health care, one on illegal drug use, and a third about terrorism. Amazingly, subjects found the speaker just as trustworthy when he gave the response about health care to a question about illegal drug use – a related but different subject – as when he responded to the original question about health care. Moreover, when quizzed immediately afterward, almost none of the subjects could remember exactly what question had been asked.

HJ: We are the source of all the love we experience in our lives.  Even when it seems as though it is coming from other people, we can only experience it to the degree that we are willing to allow it into the core of our being.  I know people who are loved greatly by those around them but they do not love themselves fully and therefore constantly worry about self worth and even though they are held in high esteem by many, they do not feel the deep self love which others radiate towards them.

Outlined in this wonderful article by Manal is some sage advice and wisdom on how to become more loving towards yourself, towards others and towards life in general.  Great read.

- Truth

How to Be More Loving

By Manal Ghosain | One With Now

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Dreams, as we understand them, have two definitions. One being the spaces, places and faces we find while we sleep, and the other being the goals we set out to achieve in this life. Both are an integral part of the human experience, interweaving our subjective and collective realities in ways it is impossible to understand. Without them, life as we know it could not exist.  Here, then, are 10 quotes on the magnificence of dreams.

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” – Steven Spielberg

Luminita Saviuc, Purpose Fairy
Waking Times

There are so many limiting and toxic beliefs we hold on to, beliefs that keep us from living the happy, joyful and meaningful life we all deserve to live. And by giving up on them, by  letting go of all the extra baggage that is weighting us down, we allow ourselves to be happy. And we give life permission to shower us with the many wonderful and precious gifts it has to offer. So without further adieu, I say, give up and be happy. Let’s begin…

1. I am not enough

Give up this limiting and toxic belief of you not being enough

How much stress are you carrying around? Do you feel burdened by life’s circumstances and emotional issues? Becoming more grounded and happy starts with letting go of worry and stress. I learned this in my own journey, through overcoming drug addictions, healing myself from depression, and walking away from a career in corporate to follow my heart and be a successful writer and life coach. In the process, I had to let go of a lot of things to become the person I am today.

Physically, spiritually and emotionally, I had to learn how to let go of the person I thought I should be in order to be the person I really wanted to be. Letting go of anything in life can be a little scary, but it can also be an amazing act of self-love.

Letting go of my worries and stress made a difference for me; of course I still dip in and out of some of my stress jar from time to time...

Modern life can be overwhelming.

We have smartphones, tablets, desktops computers and TVs in our faces all day long. This causes mental dispersion- a sort of chaos of the mind. We’re now connected to the rest of the world 24/7. This is great, but it also has its disadvantages.

We spend so much time looking at screens instead of real people, put so much focus on building virtual friends instead of nurturing a small group of close friends in our daily life and technology has made us so fanatical about trying to keep up with a million things at once that our productivity sinks, our minds never rest and we gradually build up stress and anxiety.

This on top of our obsession over material items are the major reasons our lives have become over-complicated. We connect happiness to getting the next new gadget or some other toy...

Dear Ones, as you take an inventory of your life and what you would like to change moving forward, do any of those changes seem daunting or hard? We encourage you to take anything that you still believe is stuck, stagnant, difficult to change, or feel you are stuck with, and reevaluate it. Is it really that difficult an issue? Is this truth, or an old belief system? Is it your own fear or negative focus that is bogging it down?

If you have an issue that no matter what you do you just cannot seem to budge, simply surrender it to Source with the clear intention of moving forward into the highest outcome. Allow your highest self, your guides, your helpers to lead the way, and you will find the empowered change you seek. ~Archangel Gabriel