Jona Bryndis, Guest Waking Times If we are thinking, dreaming or hoping to find our True Love, ‘Soul Mate’ or TwinSoul, or if we believe that we found our ‘perfect’ relationship, we may be in for an ego surprise…. Relationships can be based on True Love or on Ego (see article ‘Understanding True Love’); on …
Debbie West, Contributor Waking Times Meditation, an ageless practice that involves clearing away the information overload that builds up in our psyche, is gaining popularity to deal with today’s fast-paced environment where our minds are constantly inundated with a steady stream of information. Stress often caused by “mind clutter” is identified as the primary cause of …
Debbie West, Contributor Waking Times The part of the person that is one’s ego is a construction of self arising from external views or perceptions of who we are. The ego measures us against others and competes for a greater sense of self and fulfillment, bound by ideas of what we have done in the past …
Jona Bryndis, Guest Waking Times The English language offers two meanings for ‘True Love’, describing either the kind of love we feel for someone and/or the person your true love is subjected to. Both meanings primarily reflect on an emotion directed at somebody else. When searching for the deeper meaning of True Love we will …
Mary Rivas, Contributor Waking Times Most of us live hectic lives that make it challenging for us to make time for ourselves. Our thoughts race non-stop, day in and day out. We are constantly thinking about our schedules, dinner plans, money worries, grocery lists, concerns about tomorrow, regrets about yesterday and the list goes on! …
Milan Ljubincic, Contributor Waking Times Do We Need to Experience Pain in Order to Grow? Whether physical or emotional, pain is part of the human experience. All emotions that cause pain, from shame and guilt to anger and anxiety, are teaching experiences that guide our growth. Just like positive emotions, they have the potential to …
Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease Waking Times It may be suggested that the representation of happiness in online media is collective in nature because it is a picture of happiness communicated by relatively few individuals to the masses. But what means most to our collective happiness? According to a study from Lund University, collective picture of …
Rebecca Gladding, M.D., Guest Waking Times I recently saw what seemed to be an inspiring quote attributed to Mother Teresa: “People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people …
Beverly Blanchard, Contributor Waking Times What is the thought you thinking right now? Is it an empowering thought? Is it a thought about the argument you had yesterday? Is it a thought about what you have to do tomorrow? Is it a thought about what you saw in the news? Whatever that thought is; you are …
Rebecca Gladding, M.D., Guest Waking Times I realized today that in all my posts regarding the brain and how to sculpt it with mindfulness, I’ve never actually explained how and why meditation works. Specifically, the science behind how your brain changes the longer you meditate. I think this is important for many reasons, but one of the most salient is that this …
Stuart Wilde Waking Times Wu Wei is accepting life and not forcing it. It is being aware of the ebb and flow of the seasons, aware of the spirituality of all things, aware that in the great abundance of the God-Force, there is no time. It is knowing when to act, and not acting until …
Marcela Cruz, Contributor Waking Times Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. All of the people, things and activities which comprise our daily lives seem to take …
Ida Lawrence and Soren Dreier, Contributors Waking Times People say there’s a thin line between love and hate, good and evil, right and wrong. There may be a thin line…we could call it the everyday decision point. If we look at it that way, the line helps us lay out the coordinates of an inner guidance …
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times Autumn is a wonderful season especially for those sensitive to the pulls exerted by the Earth’s core. That means those ready to be pulled downwards. Those who do not resist the binding of all disparate energies recalled to the source during ‘The Fall’. Here is where we find ourselves again. In …
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times Note: This is the final of a series of 3 articles. Please read Part I here, and Part II here. This is my final article in a short a series on my Taoist spiritual and professional interpretation of the ‘Ego’. In my previous post I explained how the Ego, though well meaning, …
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times The world is awakening at an exponential rate, thanks largely to Washington’s war mongering madness despite world wide outcries. The more they push, the more galvanized the awakening becomes. Apparently their efforts are about to reach a frenzied crescendo. That or their drunken spree in the face of global protests …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times What was I listening to when I was sixteen? Cultural programming, or a message for my higher self? I’m thinking about one of my favorite songs of the time: “Soldier Boy” by the Shirelles. The song seems so simple, but to me it’s embedded with something very precious and beautiful… …
Julie Umpleby, Contributor Waking Times During a recent equinox celebration, I was urged to create a very specific meditation process that was focused on multidimensional healing, and particularly in re-connecting with and healing the ancestral patterns within us. In the process of structuring the meditative journey, I was drawn to look with fresh eyes at …
Julie Umpleby, Contributor Waking Times “Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.” Samuel Levenson “Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.” Lao-Tzu If you ask people want they want most in life, you will find the answer in the majority of cases to be that they ‘just want …
Belsebuub, Guest Waking Times Simply by perceiving the moment we can feel the beauty that emanates from consciousness, as inner peace is a quality of consciousness. If we perceive the whole we can be aware not only of the world we are in at that moment, but also our thoughts, feelings and emotions, and by …
