April McCarthy, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Scientists have calculated that the amount of force at work when you crack your knuckles has enough energy to cause damage to hard surfaces, yet studies show that the habit does not appear to cause long-term harm. By defining the process underlying joint cracking, scientists seek to discover its therapeutic benefits, or possible harms, their study published last week in PLOS ONE found.

Scientists in Canada have taken a step closer to an answer by discovering what exactly happens when a knuckle is cracked that causes the distinctive popping sounds.

Through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) video, the University of Alberta researchers observed that the cause is a cavity forming rapidly inside the joint.

By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

The Ripple Effect of Conscious Family Relationships

Even if we are conscious and awake, we often find ourselves in families where judgement, blame and negative energy is the norm. Maybe we also contribute to this dynamic, even though we “know better.” When family members are not responsible with their energy or accountable for their behavior, family dysfunction is often the result. In one way or another, this is true for most families and the very reason why we experience so much family discord and disconnection. From a higher perspective, what we consider normal, in many cases, is actually abusive.

But what if you could live in a family where everyone is responsible with their energy and everyone is accountable to a higher (more aware) way of living and loving?

This isn’t the first time I have gotten onto My pulpit, shall I say, and urged you to come from plenty and not from lack. The world has taught you otherwise. The world has taught you to come from lack which amounts to the same thing as coming from possession and attachment. You become possessed or obsessed with possessions. Beloveds, there is nothing you own.

Ownership is an illusion. You become a collector of what? Matter. If you have the Kohinoor diamond in your safe, you are not the owner of it. If you paid a trillion dollars for it, whatever a court might say, you are not the owner of it. You hold some possessions in your hands for a while, yet you are not the owner of what is in your hands.

“This lollipop is mine,” a child might say to a friend. “I have ten lollipops, and you can’t have more than one of my lollipops or they will be gone, and I won’t have any left.”

Lollipops will multiply themselves. In life, the more you give, the more you have. The world has it backwards. Possessions are not yours. You really don’t need to hold on so tight.

When you are attached, it’s harder to give. Do you want to be attached? I’m not asking: Are you attached? I am asking: Do you want to be attached? Wanting and being are often two different questions.

I’m guessing that you would say: “Oh, no, I do not want to be attached. I know attachment is a trap. It keeps me prisoner. I do know that, in life, it is better to not be attached.”

If you did not long for it from the beginning, you would never have chosen to come to your Earth-plane. There are lessons to be learned, things to be experienced and joy to be had. You requested it, therefore you are here. Embrace it with everything in your being. ~ Creator