HJ: Challenges only become difficult when we resist them.  What you resist, persists.  And what flows shall pass.  And furthermore if you start looking for the lesson — the wisdom you can extract from the very thing you are experiencing that seems difficult or challenging in the moment — then your perspective shifts and that changes everything.

Life is what we perceive it to be.  Life is what we believe it to be.  So change your perceptions…  Change your beliefs… and you will change your results.  You are the artist painting the picture.  No one is forcing your hand.  You decide to what to create.  Will you paint big or small?  Will you paint something of beauty or something of pain…?  It is your choice…

- Truth

5 Steps for Getting Through Any Difficult Situation

How to survive and thrive during a ‘Lifequake’

By Howard C. Samuels, Psy.D. | Psychology Today

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September 11, 2001 started out just like any other Tuesday. Men and women all over the ...

Luke Nephew, Waging Nonviolence Guest
Waking Times 

Blood is dripping down our faces onto the stainless steel of the armored police van. The hot yellow light flickers against the angry eyes of six young black men. We are trembling in pain and rage. Our chests are heaving. We are still breathing. One man’s eyes stare into mine.

“They didn’t have to do that,” he says. He is shaking. “How they hit me in the face when I’m already cuffed? Kicked me too.”

We all chime in, recounting the details of how we were just brutalized.

“They kicked my ribs.”

“They straight smacked my face.”

“They scraped my skin across the asphalt.”

We had just been arrested by the police on the streets of North County St. Louis for peacefully protesting the murder...

My beautiful child; there will be people in your life completely committed to hurting you. They will say things that are not based in truth, they will be rude, mean or ignore you in a bid to get you to react in some way, any way…..for their satisfaction. During this time, you may feel at your lowest and most lonely,
but do not despair! Even as the tides change so will these situations. What felt like the end of your world today, will seem inconsequential tomorrow. Be strong, be courageous, be brave and know The Universe has much bigger plans for you than you could ever imagine. ~ Creator

Christina Sarich, Contributor
Waking Times

A group of international neuroscientists and robotics engineers have discovered for the first time that human brains can indeed ‘talk’ directly to one another, even from thousands of miles away.

A brain-to-brain communication study conducted in coordination with Harvard Medical School has proven that extrasensory mind-to mind interaction can happen over great distances by leveraging different pathways in the mind.

The study, coauthored by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brai...

Andrew Martin, WWOOF
Waking Times

While there may be some dogs on the properties you visit WWOOFING is not the kind that is typically associated with barking dogs or other canine species. A few years back now I had the good fortune to travel around New Zealand and spend a few months WWOOFING on the North Island of New Zealand.

It was an incredible experience and possibly one of the best practical educational experiences of my life. WWOOFING for the uninitiated is an acronym for Willing Workers on Organic Farms.

The simple idea behind the concept is to promote awareness of ecological farming practices by living and working on organic farms. WWOOFING also provides a cultural exchange for people of all ages and co...

So many of you are so beautifully mindful, carefully pondering each decision you make in your desire to avoid making mistakes. We love you for your cautious natures, but you are putting so much stress on yourselves! Dear Ones, your path is self-correcting. All movement is forward movement. Let us explain what we mean by that. If you made a choice that was not in your highest interest, and your intention is to always move forward for the highest good of all, there will be such a huge disconnect between the two, that you would immediately become so uncomfortable that […]

UNI-VERSE, ONE VOICE   Our main goal at this time is to assist each of you in remembering your true “roots” as spiritual beings. Once you understand how the creation process works, it will be much easier to make the changes you wish to see. This can be done literally in the “twinkling of an eye.” What we wish to impart to you today is to find ways to create peace and harmony every moment of your day, no matter what frustrations are presented to you. As you learn more of the dishonesty and treachery imposed upon you from those in places of authority, it is imperative that you quickly move from anger to compassion. The energy of love flows freely; fear and anger glop together and can cause extensive problems. Before any worlds were created, all existed in a state of perfect love. There was no sense of time or space. All that existed were like wispy clouds, floating in and out. There was no such thing as being an individual, all simply was one. There came a time when the essence of One wanted to experience “More” and through many eons, innumerable episodes of ‘Separateness, Individuality and Not-Love” have been experienced. Follow your intuition and allow yourself to walk along the path of discovery. Know that no thing you do is “wrong” or “bad.” All you do is simply an experience. Each of you is living a unique existence. All of you are operating on different levels of understanding and awareness. All of you on earth, in every moment is writing and living a unique play that can be enjoyed by others.

David Garner, Guest
Waking Times

Television is a staple of almost every household in the developed world. Many kids spend more time watching TV than going to school, and the average time spent in front of the tube is 4.5 hours a day and rising. What effect does spending so much time absorbed in watching television have on our spiritual development?

You probably already know that watching television is the world’s most popular leisure activity.

In the 1970s it was uncommon for kids to watch TV before...

Waking Times

For over 3000 years the Blue Lotus was used by priesthood of ancient Egypt for its medicinal properties and as a spiritual sacrament. The Blue Lotus generally produces mild psychoactive effects that are purported to have a “divine” essence, which brings upon the feelings of tranquility and subtle euphoria.

Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the Egyptian blue lily or sacred blue lotus, is a blue water-lily in the genus Nymphaea that grows along the Nile and other places such as the Indian Subcontinent and Thailand.