Mel Schwartz, Guest
Waking Times

An Epidemic of Depression

Our society is in the throes of a virtual epidemic of depression. The numbers are quite staggering. More than twenty percent of the American population will experience at least one episode of what we refer to as clinical depression. We need to look deeper into this phenomenon to understand it and overcome it. My contention is, firstly, that our cultural values and memes induce us to live in ways that are, indeed, depressing. Secondly, much of what we refer to as clinical depression is inaccurate. Most depression is situational. The symptoms of depression are often due to depressing circumstances, not disease. In other...

Dr. Mercola
Waking Times

Food allergies affect an estimated 15 million Americans, including one in 13 children. Statistics indicate something strange is afoot, as food allergies in children rose by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011 alone.

Similarly, in Great Britain one in three people are allergic to something, be it pollen, dust mites, or food.1 Previous research has drawn parallels between the rise in allergies and increased antibiotic and antimicrobial use. One study

SOAR LIKE AN EAGLE   Like the eaglet, you must first be fed by your mama. This is like receiving information from other sources such as books, videos and conversations with those who feed you information to help you grow. Just as an eaglet sheds its baby feathers, so must humans shed their fears and out-dated belief codes in order to be able to fly. As negative belief codes are shed, allowing you to be in your integrity and to speak your truth, the freer you become. Like the eagle, you can soar higher and higher, playing with the thermals and keeping a sharp eye out for your next meal, simply living in the moment, flowing with life while taking care of your basic needs. As you mature, it is time to leave the nest. For humans, this is a time for introspection, going within and learning to rely on yourself. Each of you must make this solo flight if you want to reach your highest potential. It is your choice to create the path you wish to walk, taking responsibility for each step along the way. As you get better at making choices that lead you toward your desired destiny, life gets easier and more profound. This is like the eagle that has mastered his flight patterns and is adept at catching his prey in order to sustain himself. Then comes the day when the eagle chooses a mate. If you still tend to harbor anger and resentment towards your friends, you will surely do the same with the one you live with. For those of you who have completed your “homework” and have cleaned your nest of unnecessary habits and belief codes, you will draw unto yourself appropriate mates.

Beloveds, sometimes it is true that no one understands you. Even friends, even good friends, see only a fraction of you, or even mis-see. Everyone has a partial picture of you. No one knows you as well as I do.
 
People may think they know you and know you well, yet there is far more to you than the picture people see. People may even think they know you before they have laid eyes on you.
 
This seems like a pity, yet this is not a pity. This is how it is. You yourself don’t begin to know all the dimensions that lie within you. At the same time, you do know more of the layers that exist within you than others do. Pretty much, you do.
 
Not everyone surmises the same aspects of you. Some may even see opposite aspects.
 
Would that the world grasped your full content. Yet not even you do. There are sun’s rays you also have never noticed. You are a deep well.
 
Without full awareness of yourself, you nevertheless feel that others are to have a greater understanding of you than they do. If others really saw your light, it could be too much for them, yet it would be well worth their blazing through.
 
No question, odds are people undervalue you, including those who love you.
 
You are greater than the eye can see. There are ramifications of you that, so far, only I know. You may have a glimpse now and then, yet you don’t seem to know how to keep that glimpse in front of you. Something is missing from your perception. You also put yourself down simply by not seeing your full radiance.

HJ: When you are feeling stuck, it’s a sign that something needs to change.  Usually that means simply looking at your life and situation differently, because after all, when you shift your perception, it changes everything.  Suddenly you find yourself seeing opportunities in challenges and lessons in ‘failures’.  You see the ‘puzzle’ that is life from a new perspective and things that were always there but that you didn’t notice previously suddenly appear and lead you down new, expansive paths.

However, that being said, feeling stuck at times is just part of life.  So don’t fret.  Don’t get depressed.  Don’t fight it.  Just accept that in this very moment, it’s what you need to experience.  Embrace it.  Doing this releases much of its hold over you instantly.  And then, as mentioned previously, start looking at things differently.  Get out of your normal habits and routines and shake things up.  Take a vacation.  Do something new or challenging… and your stuckness will float away like a cloud in the sky.

- Truth

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Zen Gardner, Guest
Waking Times

I was thinking about this very subject and sat down to put some notes together when I stopped to moderate comments on the site. And here was this synchronistic and very wise comment from Soliel:

Despite all the fear-mongering out there, many have remained steadfast in their truth. The juggernaut of fear, greed and inertia still rolls on but it has been redirected into a more positive and life enhancing outcome.

When you look deeply at the news – in whatever form – printed, digital, carried by sound, light or other frequency range, it can be skewed, rearranged and reconfigured in some way to cause an intended outcome.

How do you know that any o...

Tom Shroder, AlterNet
Waking Times

In the past decade, after thirty years in the deep freeze, research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. FDA-approved pilot studies and clinical trials using the drugs under controlled conditions and in combination with talk therapy have shown they could be used safely, delivering promising results in a wide range of tough-to-treat maladies, including opiate and tobacco addiction, alcoholism, a...

Imagine if someone asked you to log onto their computer to help them with something but refused to give you their password? Wouldn’t that be a frustrating situation? You could be stuck for ages trying to guess what it might be, when all they had to do was give you the information you needed to assist with ease. It is essentially the same thing when you do not communicate clearly what your needs are. People can try a myriad of different combinations of things, but unless you are clear, the likelihood of them getting it perfect is very unlikely. Dear […]

Mired in, wallowing in, stuck in……….what do these mean? It is your conscious mind’s way of saying, “I refuse to move for you”. Go into your heart and ask there. The Universe will always know and teach you a way of freeing yourself. ~ Creator