HJ: Mindfulness is the art of detaching from your thoughts and therefore the suffering they invariably generate.  By doing so you drop into a deeper state of consciousness which gives rise to higher states of emotional intelligence and awareness, such as peace, happiness, contentment, joy, compassion and so on.  You begin to tap into and reveal your true self.  Below you will find a great article by the always wise Ronald Alexander musing on some quick but powerful ways to drop into deeper levels of peace in your life through the power of mindfulness, based solidly on timeless noble truths from Buddhist philosophy.

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The Art of Mindfully Transforming Your Life

Learn to let go of your attachments with the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.

By Ronald Alexander, Ph.D. | Psychology Today

Just like the angels, it is not for you to judge good/bad or right/wrong. The lessons that others choose are their lessons, their experiences and their perceptions. What you think and feel makes no difference. Your only job is to love, love, love! ~ Creator

Many of you hold back, waiting for a situation to prove itself to you. We understand that you see this as being cautious but this is faulty thinking because if you are entering into any situation with doubt, fear or distrust, you are automatically blocking the flow and its ability to bloom into its full potential. Giving partial energy can only ever result in partial results.

Such an approach comes from fear of the unknown. Dear Ones, your life is not happening to you, it is responding to you! You are the one who sets the energetic tone for your life expression. When you finally accept your infinite ability to create, you will shine brightly and beautifully, and from there, will create the life of your dreams. ~Archangel Gabriel

By Nanice Ellis

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Did you know that virtually every emotional wound is intertwined with issues of worthiness? In fact, feelings of unworthiness keep us from creating the lives we most desire. In order to heal our emotional wounds and consciously create, we must conquer our fears of unworthiness, but in order to do this, we must first understand why we are programmed to feel unworthy.

Like most “subconscious programs” the Worthiness Program is often passed down, unknowingly from our caretakers, but even, on the rare chance, that you did not inherit this program, by the time you are in first grade, the program officially begins.

On day one of first grade, we are taught that there is right and wrong, deserving and non-deserving, and passing and failing, all adding up to either worthy or not worthy. Year after year, with every test and evaluation, we must prove our worth. But not just worthy to move on to the next lesson, the next grade or to graduation, we are asked to prove that we are worthy of approval, acknowledgment, appreciation and even love.

Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo
Waking Times

A groundbreaking study published this month in Nature challenges a century old assumption about the innate pathogenicity of these extremely small, self-replicating particles known as viruses. 

Titled, “An enteric virus can replace the beneficial function of commensal bacteria,” researchers found that an “enteric RNA virus can replace the beneficial function of commensal bacteria in the intestine.” Known as murine (mouse) noravirus (MNV), researchers found that infecting germ-free or antibiotic-treated mice infection with MNV “restored intestinal morphology and lymphocyte function without inducing overt inflammation and disease.”

Paul Cavel, Contributor
Waking Times

Emancipation or freedom from slavery and bondage is ultimately what the human spirit craves. From the perspective of your spirit, slavery encompasses how the attachments in your life—such as sex, material items, money, power and all that they bring—prevent you from being free. Bondage has to do with the ways in which your ego (or collection of identities) and your karmic loops bind you into the reality you experience, and thereby limit your human growth. So the question is: How can you free your spirit and, in so doing, realise your human potential?

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