When the proverbial hits the fan, it’s easy to let go of the intimacy and connection in your romantic relationship, letting sex fall to the wayside.

That’s silly really, because sex is the cheapest and best tool you have available to help you ride out the current storms you’re facing in life.

Sex Reduces Stress

Apart from giving you cardiovascular exercise which can lead to endorphin releases, sex releases other feel good chemicals into your body that help you feel happier and lighter and function more effectively.

Regular sex will have you feeling lighter and happier, and most likely less prone to depression and mood swings.

Sex Is Something To Do & Look Forward To

You know how we joke about big families not having a TV? Well sex is actually pretty great entertainment – if you can remember that far back.

Once you get into a regular sexual rhythm with your partner, you’ll find yourself being more adventurous and open, and that excitement will add a major positive boost to all the other areas of your life as well.

By Lynn Newman
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

When we’ve got a hundred things on our plate, it’s super hard sometimes to know how and when to take a break. And even when on vacation or in the times we have to relax, it can be difficult to let go and free ourselves from tension. Our minds may continue without us, coming up with the next thing to put on our lists — jutting out to the future to keep up with all the many things we want or have to do.

But there’s a quick and simple tool you can use to instantly relieve yourself from tension… it’s this thing called stopping.

Taking a PAUSE

By PAUSE, I don’t mean taking a Facebook break. A PAUSE means wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, no matter what you’re racing to – you stop.

LIKE some people who might rather not admit it, wolves faced with a scarcity of potential sexual partners are not beneath lowering their standards. It was desperation of this sort, biologists reckon, that led dwindling wolf populations in southern Ontario to begin, a century or two ago, breeding widely with dogs and coyotes. The clearance of forests for farming, together with the deliberate persecution which wolves often suffer at the hand of man, had made life tough for the species. That same forest clearance, though, both permitted coyotes to spread from their prairie homeland into areas hitherto exclusively lupine, and brought the dogs that accompanied the farmers into the mix.

Interbreeding between animal species usually leads to offspring less vigorous than either parent—if they survive at all. But the combination of wolf, coyote and dog DNA that resulted from this reproductive necessity generated an exception. The consequence has been booming numbers of an extraordinarily fit new animal (see picture) spreading through the eastern part of North America. Some call this creature the eastern coyote. Others, though, have dubbed it the “coywolf”. Whatever name it goes by, Roland Kays of North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, reckons it now numbers in the millions.

God said:

I call your name. Hello, I say.

Sometimes you hear, and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you prefer not to be called. It disturbs your focus on sundry items. Imagine, God an interruption! Let yourself be interrupted then from reverie of life past and of life flippant. Let Me place My hand on your shoulder so you can turn yourself around, turn your life around, and raise your playing field in all this imagined time and space.

Now is time for you to honor yourself and save yourself from the waste of time which does not even exist. You have been scammed, beloved. Come, soar the Heavens with Me. Let’s start a Journey of Surrender. Let Us be on Our way to a new Camera of Life. Have you not had enough of the other, this quandary of the so-called past?

Let’s take a Journey to the Stars. Let’s roll the Movie Reel of Life Back, and start over. Let’s hear a different tune, a milder tune. Do not back-track. Start anew and anew and anew. What is all the Present about anyhow?

Be glad you are you. Whatever you may imagine life is about, imagine more. To imagine more, you must empty more. Let not your thoughts keep you back. Let a vacuum fill you in on new terms. No sitting back on your laurels. The Present just now is no longer the present. The minute the Present seems to occur, it is now relegated to the past. The Future comes in front of your eyes soon enough.

Dylan Charles, Editor
Waking Times

Nowhere is the disconnect between science and spirit felt more intimately than in matters of mental health.

We can speak empirically on this by saying things like, “America spends over $113 billion a year on mental health treatment,” or “depression affects over 14.8 million adults,” but, cold data marginalizes actual human experience, so if you’re suffering, this doesn’t really help much.

The statistical view does, however, tell us that mental illness is epidemic in our culture, that an enormous economy has risen around the mainstream medical approaches to treating mental illness, and that this industry does not appear to be effective in reversing the growing epidemic of mental illness.