We all need to create healthy boundaries. Whether you’re highly sensitive (like I am) or not, this is an essential daily practice that helps you protect your energy and harness it in ways that have a positive impact.

I’ve always been sensitive to the energy of words, the news, how people were treating each other or animals and struggles in different parts of the world. For most of my life I was unaware that I was absorbing so much information around me — but I take in more than just what meets the eye, and I feel things strongly. I often can tell when someone on the world stage is lying, or I can feel what’s not being said when someone is talking; I feel the pain or emotion in a situation, and I empathize deeply with others’ experiences.

We don’t often post personal stories on Wake Up World, but this one really touched a chord. This article is the first in a series from a father who recently turned to Cannabis Oil to help heal his son from a grade-4 brain tumor after conventional radiotherapy treatment failed. We feel this story is a timely reminder of the human side of the medicinal cannabis debate. — Editor.

Hope for Jayden – a Father’s Story

Just over 12 months ago, my son Jayden was diagnosed with one of the worst conditions currently known in the medical world; a Grade 4 Glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor. At the time he was 4 years old. The consultants gave my wife and I the horrific news after completing a biopsy and MRI Scan, which confirmed the illness. It was a freak of nature really, as 2 days before the diagnosis Jayden fell of a spinning roundabout at a local children’s park. He became extremely unsteady on his feet so we called for an ambulance asap.

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness
Concluded from Part 1

David P. West tells us that hemp’s among the most misunderstood plants of our time.

“Surely no member of the vegetable kingdom has ever been more misunderstood than hemp. For too many years, emotion—not reason—has guided our policy toward this crop. And nowhere have emotions run hotter than in the debate over the distinction between industrial hemp and marijuana.” (1)

David also explains the difference between THC, marijuana’s active ingredient, and CBD, the non-intoxicating cannabinoid that’s found in industrial hemp.

“Cannabis is the only plant genus that contains the unique class of molecular compounds called cannabinoids. Many cannabinoids have been identified, but two preponderate: THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, and CBD, which is an antipsychoactive ingredient.

Do you feel it?

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

“The old world is ending – the new world is just beginning”. – Bob Marley

A hidden spiritual power permeates the land around us, and those of us who are willing to open up to it can access and feel it. I’ve just started to tap into it, and I feel it in its strongest doses when I’m in nature.

I’ve only received an inkling of the spiritual power that flows from this land, but from what I’ve felt so far, it’s incredibly potent. I’m sure it’ll eventually uplift those who’ve been lost in unawareness for too long to really feel or understand it, and when it does, we’ll finally see how badly we’ve hurt the earth.

My intuition tells me that this hidden spiritual power is love, which is a force that most people are unaware of in a greater sense and unwilling to pursue with any degree of seriousness...

By Lissa Rankin MD

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

To expose our wounds to people we care about – the icky stuff, the ego stuff, the personal growth edges we’re working on that we haven’t yet mastered – is super vulnerable. Letting others see our “big ugly tails” (hat tip to my dear friend Amy Ahlers, who has seen my big ugly tail and trusted me enough to let me see hers) tends to trigger all our core fears of rejection and abandonment, of withdrawal of love.

But to bear witness to someone’s wound is a privilege and an opportunity to deepen the relationship beyond the idealistic views we might have of each other into the real truth of both our light and our shadows.

By Daniel Gustafsson

Guest Writer For Wake Up World

A study of natural medicinal plants and their potential for treatment of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, ALS and other neuro-degenerative diseases.

This article is the culmination of six years work, having studied ethnobotanical medicine and the field of neuro-disease, making connections between the two in the search for something viable in terms of an alternative treatment option for ALS – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and similar neuro-degenerative conditions.

Mae Chan, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

From our environment, to our food, medicine and lifestyle, we are surrounded by things that depress our immune system. Knowing the culprits can make a big difference in how long and how often you encounter illness.

1. Sugar

Sucrose suppresses the immune system, leads to weight gain and leaches precious minerals from your body. Even in small amounts, sugar is detrimental to your health. Eating or drinking 100 grams (8 tbsp.) of sugar, the equivalent of about two cans of soda, can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill germs by forty percent...

Llewelllyn Vaughan-Lee, Global Oneness Project
Waking Times

The signs of a growing ecological crisis are becoming more and more clear: global warming, acidification of the oceans, the massive depletion of species. Weather patterns are increasingly unstable as our ecosystem becomes out of balance–a direct result of our materialistic, fossil fuel driven culture. We are destroying our own ecosystem, the same finely balanced system that sustains us. And we seem unable to take the measures that are needed to slow down this accelerating disaster–our politicians putting short-term economic growth before any long-term ecological considerations.

Sadly, even the concept of “sustainability” has been co-opted by our culture. Sustainability no longer refers to upholding the viability of our ecosystem, its biodiversity and beauty, its wilderness and wonder, but to the very materialistic culture that is destroying it. This attitude reveals that above all, we want to sustain our energy-intensive, resource-depleting life style, whose very demands are damaging our planet. “Environmentalism is no longer about how to save the environment. It has instead become about how we in the developed world can save our lifestyle.”

Appreciation is the one aspect that will water and grow your relationships and ensure that everyone feels honoured for their unique contributions and beingness. People will naturally want to do their best if they feel efforts are noticed and celebrated by others. Why not spend the day looking for things to appreciate in others and letting them know what you find? ~Archangel Gabriel