God said:

Be like butter - easy to cut through. Nothing abrades you. You are not an obstacle to another. Someone doesn’t like you? What care you? You do not resist. You do not resent. You let go of resistance, for resistance amounts to hard feelings. Don’t have hurt feelings in the first place. Whatever occurs in life, your hard feelings are not to be one of them. Be like butter.

Nor are you easily flattered. You are not high and mighty. Nor are you laid low. Have you not had enough hurt feelings now to last a lifetime? Be done with hurt feelings this minute. The world is not to buoy you, nor is the world to put you down. Be your own Tour Guide.

No longer do you live in a world where offense takes over, and you are like dried hard stale bread crumbling from the past. Soft as butter, you are not a sob-sister. You are someone who knows what is significant and what is not. Your world does not hinge on your being well-received. What is it to you when someone does not favor you? It is not an ordinance in the world that everyone has to favor you.

It feels like a tragedy to you, yet why? Does your life really depend on someone else’s receptivity? Do not cast someone off because he or she needs more than you can give them. Do not make your life a trade-off. If someone lacks joy to give you, does that have to be your problem? Does being liked or not liked have to be your modus-operandi? Can you not be who you are regardless of what and where someone else happens to be at a given moment?

By Stacy Vajta
Guest Writer For Wake Up World

When it comes to how to work with your energy for self healing and spiritual growth, there are a lot of different modalities out there. It seems as though, as you evolve in your awareness and ability to work at a vibrational level, the conversation about energy work becomes more and more involved.

Start talking with someone who does energy healing work, and you may find yourself getting into some pretty “out there” stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I can talk crystalline structures, grids and multidimensional awareness with the best of them. Yet, when it really comes down to healing and working with energy, it’s all about simple, grounded tools and practices.

Even though you may find yourself these days in a new energetic paradigm, which requires a whole new road-map to best understand the more complex energies you’re working with, the approach is still actually quite simple. If you make it too complex, you may miss out on what really needs to shift.

The US Federal Government has long been accused of doing far more to assist the global drug trade than fight against it. They were caught assisting the Sinaloa drug cartel, they helped save Afghanistan's opium production, and the DEA may be little more than a spy agency in disguise. Well now there's even more hard evidence from Bolivia:

Drug dealing now represents less than 1% of the Andean country's GDP, in a sustained reduction ever since the expulsion of the United States DEA agency.

According to data from the United Nations, Bolivia achieved a reduction in the amount of coca fields — the plant which is used as a raw material for the elaboration of cocaine — approximately in an 11% since the year 2014, and in over a 30% since 2010, which amounts to four consecutive years of decline, from over 30 thousand to some 20 thousand hectares.

Being able to pick up on others energy and feel what they are feeling is a wonderful gift to have.  It can also be one of the most burdensome curses.  If not managed properly, empathetic abilities can cause you extreme emotional, spiritual, and psychological distress.

Have you ever been around someone and had your energy completely drained from how negative they are? Or have you ever been around someone who is in a state of depression, and then you get caught up in feeling that same depression as well?  Being an empath is a gift, but it requires that we have a special skillset to prevent ourselves from losing our energy and our sanity.

Here are 3 essential coping tips for people with empathetic abilities:

1) Guard your thoughts

Here is a very common experience empaths go through.  Let’s say you are sitting down with a friend, and another person walks into the room and you start picking up on what they are feeling.  When you start picking up on what they are feeling, pay attention to the thoughts that arise in your mind when this happens.  They may be thoughts like: