By Dr. Michelle Kmiec

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Natural and alternative health advocates have long known that artificial (synthetic) food additives have had a negative effect on human health.

Currently, although links have been made between consumption of food additives and increased hyperactivity (as well as cancer, chromosomal damage and other adverse affects), the FDA continues to drag its feet by still maintaining its stance that the results of such findings are “inconclusive” and continuing to recommend the use of ADHD drugs, while allowing the use of these dangerous additives.

By Lorraine Ereira

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

We all do it, all day, every day. Even while we sleep. In fact we never ever stop doing it. If we did we would die. But do we ever think about it? Do we realise just how much of an impact it has on our bodies, our minds and our overall health?

It is the simple act of respiration. That’s right – breathing! Believe it or not, there are different ways to breathe, which have different effects on the body and our health. But let’s just take a look at two. Nose breathing which induces relaxation, calm, and improves health, and the other mouth breathing, which most of us do by default, because of the lives we lead, which contributes to many health concerns like elevated blood pressure and an increase in resting heart rate.

By Open

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

I didn’t plan the Divinicus Tour as such. I stood in front of a wall calendar and felt dates ‘spike’ in my consciousness, then penciled them in; feeling them until the sense fully landed. Only then did I go ahead and make the venue and flight bookings. I had the strong sense to be back home in the UK around 11th November and no later than the 13th. It would seem the completion of my journey was timed to carefully avoid “Bombogenesis” – an ‘extratropical surface cyclone’ – delivering a big freeze across swathes of North America, affecting Europe too.

A big ‘lesson’ of the Tour’s conclusion was for us to expect upheaval from Gaia as we move into a future of uncertainty – the perfect conditions to develop spiritual mastery…

By Jack Adam Weber L.Ac., Dipl. C.H.

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Despite its advertised promise, the experience of heartbreak is often chaotic, confusing, and messy. Most people want to get out of it as soon as possible. And for good reason; it hurts. Trying to escape heartbreak prematurely, however, leads to the perpetuation of pain, otherwise known as suffering. While everyone´s journey through heartbreak will be unique, there are many helpful tips as well as a context of healing for how to embody this process in order to be released from the depths of pain and loss as a renewed, wiser, more genuinely loving person.

At some point each of us faces heartbreak. Whether we lose a loved one, our health, a piece of land or a whole planet to over-development and toxicity, each is a kind of heartbreak. Some heartbreaks bring us to our knees, and these occasions hold the promise the most growth and initiation into deeper love.

He cheated on his wife with a much younger employee. She abandoned her newborn baby. He drinks until he beats his children. She manipulates her feminine wiles to get what she wants from men. He took their hard-earned money and then squandered it for selfish motives. She killed him. He raped her. She sells her body for money. He heads up a sex trafficking ring. She molests children. He sells drugs to teenagers…

You might judge all of these people, labeling them as “immoral” or “wrong”. But as I described in my recent article Are You “Spiritual But Not Religious?”, I think spirituality is largely about choosing to withhold judgment, trusting that everyone’s soul is on its own journey, learning what it’s here to learn (and teach), and everyone is entitled to their own journey.

I’m in no way condoning such behaviors, but what if, instead of your judgment, you could perceive these individuals as suffering beings and offer them your love and compassion instead? What if Reverend John Watson was right when he said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle?” What if we all grew our empathy muscles instead of judging?