Today we would like to clarify the difference between trying (forcing) and flowing. Trying is unsupported movement. It is often frustrating and exhausting, and no matter how hard you try, you get limited gain. Flowing, on the other hand, is supported movement, and your highest creations come together with grace and ease. How can you be sure you are flowing rather than trying? Pay attention to your body. If you are trying, you will often feel tension in your body, especially in the abdominal area. When you are flowing, your energy will be moving through your body with ease. This […]

Valerie Burke, GreenMedInfo
Waking Times

What if you found out that your child was being slipped a dangerous drug in his school lunches, without your consent? What if you discovered that this drug never underwent the usual safety testing, as the government turned a bind eye? Would you be shocked? Outraged? Or perhaps in a state of profound denial that something so egregious could happen in this country?

This may seem like a nightmare scenario that could never happen in the United States of America, in a democracy valuing freedom and consent. But the shocking truth is that it happens every day. I’m not talking about a drug, per se, but your family is being exposed to something potentially even MORE destruc...

Live with a sense of anticipation. You want to live with the idea that something wonderful is about to happen to you or come to you or come from you. Anticipation is an awareness of something more to come, something delectable, something that will give you happiness and, therefore, happiness to those around you.
 
You can call this expectancy, if you like, only you hold it lightly, not tightly. You welcome it, yet you do not command it to come. It is a light invitation you put out to the Universe. You await its arrival, yet you don’t hang on to it. You do not have it on a leash that you tug. You simply are ready to welcome it, like a guest you are happy to see.
 
You anticipate a guest. A guest is coming. You get a room ready. You think of what you will cook. You don’t as yet know the date of your guest’s arrival. You won’t know who the guest will be, and, yet, you are ready. Why not have a guest’s arrival in mind?
 
Why not savor the arrival of a guest surprise in your life? And why not invite this guest and have the guest come and exceed your expectations? Why not a welcome arrival every day? Why not a couple of welcome arrivals every day? Why not a group of welcome arrivals every day? How happy your heart will be.
 
The guests that come are surprises! Even as you anticipate the surprises, you may have no idea what form the surprises will take.
 
Enter the springtime of surprises. Truly, why be surprised when glad tidings reach your door? Have I not said that glad tidings will come to you?
 

Zen Gardener, Guest
Waking Times

No matter where I turn the awakening is screaming out at me. Every event and announcement of intention by the dark side, no matter how destructive and disturbing, is only precipitating more conscious awareness and very present, personal involvement by humanity. It’s a thrilling time. If it weren’t for what we consider to be terrible and tragic events being perpetrated on humanity, our tidal wave of awakening would not have the momentum it has gathered and continues to gain.

I’m not saying to bring on the madness, but I am saying they can’t do anything against the truth, only for it. ...

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

The gravity of the situation… we hear a lot about that. In our souls gravity is not a low-vibe thing: it’s a feeling room. Even if I had the opportunity to hang with the high-vibe folks and talk about how simple the profound is and how profound the simple, I wouldn’t make a life out of it. Day-to-day life is friction. It’s where the rubber meets the road. It’s where our growth comes from.

There is no escaping our feet on the earth life, with sons and daughters and loved ones and strangers who go through things. And it’s not just them… we go through it with them, with our own stuff mixed in. Human beings go through it. Sometimes it’ll send you to your bed to curl up and pull up the covers, and shed a few ‘this stuff’s heavy’ tears.

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You could be asking yourself:
 
“Why am I not happy? I have a lot to be happy for, yet I am not happy. What prevents me from being happy? It has to be that I believe in lack. I must have set it up this way so long ago. Since I do not have everything I want, I am not happy. I have decided I am not happy. So long as I lack, I must think I cannot be happy. When I have gain, it may not stay, so even with gain, I have worry. It is like I have chosen a certain umbrella. It has holes in it. I do not know how to keep the rain of unhappiness off me.”
 
Beloveds, you might as well get rid of that umbrella altogether. There is nothing but life. To your mind, life is meant to fulfill your desires. Perhaps you look for proof that I love you, and you keep setting higher and higher standards and now requiring more. Perhaps you feel that unless you have everything, you have nothing. And there is always more you desire. In this case, desire gratitude.
 
I’m for your desiring, and I suggest that you dream Big. There is a difference between desire and expectation. If you feel thrown out of Heaven because all your desires are not fulfilled, you work against yourself.
 
You want to come to the place where desire of itself is a boon to you. To have a desire is fulfilling of itself. Your desires do not have to be fulfilled on the outside. Let the joy be in the desire.
 

HJ: For most of us the problem is not finding motivation, but getting past our own fear and self-doubt.  If only we could get rid of them, we would be able to achieve anything we set our mind to with ease.  And it’s true (to a certain extent).  Without these two emotions we would move forward rather effortlessly.

But there is a reason why we experience fear.  It is meant to keep us safe and alive.  It is a built in survival mechanism and without it, well, we probably wouldn’t last very long…

However, the problem lies not with fear itself, but irrational fear.  This is learned fear of things that do not actually threaten our survival or wellbeing.  This kind of fear is counterproductive and keeps us stuck where we are at despite our best intentions to move forwards and grow.  This is the kind of fear and self-doubt you need to get rid of and exactly what the article below deals with.

- Truth

Manage Your Brain to Play a Bigger Game

Be the master not the victim of your brain.

By Marcia Reynolds, Psy.D. |

A gentle reminder; a person’s connection to the Divine is as varied as there are humans on your Earth. Spirituality need not be somber, quiet or meditative and it is certainly not about denying the human experience! A truly spiritual being is very rarely any of these things. Instead, they have learned to embrace the flaws of being human, find joy and comfort in them and realize they are in a learning phase. Take time today to look a bit more closely at your fellow journeyers. They will often teach you things you least expect. ~ Creator