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What Is An Empath And Are You One?

Have you ever wondered why people who are strangers or people you hardly know open up to you and share their most trusted thoughts? Do you have an instant connection with animals? Are you unable to watch violence, cruelty, or tragedy on television or in the movies because your soul just can’t bear it? Do you have an instant knowing about the character of the people you meet upon first meeting them? Are you highly spiritual and find the physical world and everything in it heavy? Are you often tired and have physical ailments that cannot be medically explained? If you answered, “yes” to any of these questions you may be an “empath.

Empaths are people who are highly sensitive to the energy and the emotions of the people, animals, and sometimes even the spiritual imprints that exist around them. Some are even sensitive to the energy of plants. This extreme sensitivity applies to the familiar as well as the unfamiliar; people we are intimately close with and total strangers. We experience the world around us and feel what other people are feeling through our extraordinarily heightened senses and keen intuitions. We often internalize the feelings of others without being aware we are doing it and interpret those feelings as being our own.

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Triple Water Astrology – The Anaretic Degree! Sun in Cancer 2015 newsletter

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Welcome to Sun in Cancer, 2015. Happy solar return to those with Sun in Cancer, including myself! If you have Sun, ascendant, or other features in your natal chart emphasizing the Cancer sign, one of your influential planets is the Moon. The Moon symbolizes the primary emotional need in the chart/personality (very succinctly, if you know your Moon sign, this starts the ball rolling: [Moon in] Aries/initiation; Taurus/material security; Gemini/gather information; Cancer/emotional security; Leo/self-expression; Virgo/analysis; Libra/balancing; Scorpio/transformation; Sagittarius/exploration; Capricorn/achievement; Aquarius/be unique; Pisces/seeking the source). The Moon is the inner unconscious part of ourselves around which the ego/Sun operates. While it’s very powerful (note that Sun and Moon are the same sized disk in the sky from our perspective), we aren’t normally cognizant of it. It bubbles up occasionally into the consciousness, through our daily habits, and when emotions are expressed.

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Laser 'tricorder' can diagnose malaria through the skin


Malaria is a huge problem in many parts of the world (Image: Stephanie Aglietti/AFP/Getty Images)

It's a weapon that fights malaria – a laser scan can give an accurate diagnosis in seconds, without breaking the skin, just like the fictional tricorder in Star Trek.

It works by pulsing energy into a vein in a person's wrist or earlobe. The laser's wavelength doesn't harm human tissue, but is absorbed by hemozoin – waste crystals that are produced by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum when it feeds on blood.

When the crystals absorb this energy, they warm the surrounding blood plasma, making it bubble. An oscilloscope placed on the skin alongside the laser senses these nanoscale bubbles when they start popping, detecting malaria infections in only 20 seconds.

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DAy 34: The Dark Night, Ix 8

THE DARK NIGHT   Dark energy patterns do occur in your physical and astral bodies. They are created by your thoughts, words and actions. There is a universal law that “like attracts like.” Light or positive thoughts flow freely in energetic patterns. Dark or negative thoughts glop together like a sticky substance. Be aware of your words.

The first time you say something like, “I am sick and tired,” you have created an energetic pattern. It is considered “negative” because it emits a low frequency thoughtform. The next time you repeat the same words or energy pattern with feeling, this thoughtform will attach itself to the first thoughtform. As time goes on, if the attitude remains the same and the feelings occur repeatedly, this dark glop of energy will continue to grow.

Once imbedded securely, these glops of dark energy become so large, tight and energized that it actually manifests into a physical dis-ease within your body. How to break through these patterns, whether they have already manifested physically or still in your auric field?

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Self-Compassion: Tips for Loving Yourself Just as You Are

Do you love yourself just as you are? The way that people answer this question reveals a great deal about their upbringing. Well-loved children absorb from their parents a sense of self-worth that lasts a lifetime. But receiving mixed messages as a child is more common. These messages include the following:

  • I love you as long as you love me.
  • I love you as long as you are being good.
  • I love you as much as you deserve.
  • I love you, but don’t ask for too much or you’ll be spoiled.

You may remember such mixed messages from your childhood or not, but they all place conditions on how much parents love their children. Conditioned love is the norm, quite likely, even though unconditional love is the ideal. Can you change your inner image of how much you are loved and lovable? I believe so.

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What Does Humble Mean? It Means You Are Open.

God said:

Come to the place where you love yourself. Love yourself as I love you.

I love you. I see the pure light that you are. I love you as Myself. You are Myself.

For you to love yourself doesn’t mean you consider yourself imperious. You don’t see yourself as above others. You are not the Queen of the May. You make mistakes and are not bound by them. You make no excuses. You are Being.

There is no separation between Us, yet there is separation between you and ego. Your ego is an adjunct you do not take seriously. Just when you think you know everything, just when you think you’ve got life down pat, that’s when you are riding for a fall. You no longer swagger.

When you love yourself, you are humble. You see the wondrousness of yourself, yet you are humble. What does humble mean? It means you are open. You are receptive to others. You are aware you still have much to learn. You are not a know-it-all. You know that everyone contains the same spirit as you.

The expertise of life is to love. You come from love. You don’t parade it. You are it. It is the chair you sit in. It is the view you see from. Loving yourself certainly doesn’t mean you are stuck on yourself. You can be awestruck at the wonder of you and the wonder of others and the wonder of God Who created you and everyone and everything, yet you are not exactly in love with yourself. You do not love yourself to distraction.

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Truth is eternal. Truth is. Truth simply is. It is never new, it is never old, or, it is as old as mountains and as new as the dewdrops on the grass leaves in the early sun. It is both and it is neither; it is both and beyond.

But you cannot arrive at this conclusion only by thinking, you will have to move into experiencing.

Truth has to become an existential phenomenon to you: you have to live it. Only by living it will you be able to know it, not vice versa; not by knowing it will you be able to live it, no.

That's what has been traditionally told to you: know about truth so that you can practise and live it. That is utter nonsense. Live truth so that you can know it. Living comes first, experiencing comes first, and then the shadow falls on your intelligence too and your intelligence can make an understanding out of it.

-Rajneesh

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Young Medical Marijuana Patient: “I’d Rather Be Illegally Alive Than Legally Dead.”

If you don’t believe that there is any value in medical marijuana, as many government officials do, then you’re simply not looking at the mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Last weekend, Coltyn Turner, a fifteen-year-old medical marijuana patient spoke at a symposium on medical marijuana research in Denver. He explained:

“I’d rather be illegally alive than legally dead.”

Turner suffers from Crohns disease, a disease of the digestive system that results in extreme pain, extreme diarrhea, among other devastating symptoms.

“I was just on every pharmaceutical there was out there until I would end up in a wheelchair,” says Turner. Eventually, his mother would turn to CBD oil as her last resort.

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Venus Shadow starts today!

 

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Today Venus enters the territory over which she will retrograde as of July 25, heralding the start of the 'Venus shadow' period. Venus Retrogrades happen just under every couple of years, and offer a fabulous opportunity to review, reshuffle, rewire, heal, clear and transform all that is Venusy: love, relationships, self-love, self-value, self-worth, our inner feminine qualities, how we view ourselves and others as women (both individually and collectively), our ability to receive nourishment, nurturing and pleasure, and express ourselves creatively.

Venus is most commonly associated with love, but really she stands for the Feminine, which ultimately affects everything from our relationships to our income, abundance, health, happiness and heart fulfillment.

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Solstice Solar Synchronicity

Solar synchronicity - the Solstice has occurred simultaneously to 6 M Class Solar Flares occurring so far, and with each one being stronger than the next more are likely to come.

I have lost count of the amount of times I get a sudden burst of writing energy after a period of relative quiet only to discover that the Sun is erupting high-grade Solar Flares after a relative period of quiet. All this energy can manifest as creative drive, but it can also manifest as anger or irritability arising out of nowhere: liken it to being plugged into an electric socket. It's either going to rev you up in a good way, or short-circuit you for a bit leaving you feeling a bit frayed and on edge.

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Overcoming Negative Emotions

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“Balance cannot be known unless you taste both extremes. You will dabble, struggle, even suffer until you muster up the the extraordinary courage necessary for embracing all of your humanity.” ~ Amy Larson

Two words that any spiritual seeker is inundated with, no matter what school of thought they are a part of, are “acceptance” and “love”. It doesn’t really matter which spiritual practice we are following or which teacher we are listening to, we are constantly told to accept ourselves as we are, accept others as they are, and unconditionally love everything, including all of our “negative” emotions.

And as simple as many spiritual teachers make it sound, the actual concept of acceptance and love can actually be not only more confusing than it seems, but harder than it looks. How many times on your journey have you told yourself that you can accept that you are angry, let’s say, attempted to love it (in hope of making it go away), and nothing happened?

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Plants Communicate Using An Internet Of Fungus

Hidden beneath the surface and entangled in the roots of Earth’s astonishing and diverse plant life, there exists a biological superhighway linking together the members of the plant kingdom in what researchers call the “wood wide web”. This organic network operates much like our internet, allowing plants to communicate, bestow nutrition, or even harm one another.

The network is comprised of thin threads of fungus known as mycelium that grow outwards underground up to a few meters from its partnering plant, meaning that all of the plant life within a region is likely tapped into the network and connected to one another. The partnership of the roots of plants and the fungi is known as mycorrhiza and is beneficial for both parties involved; plants provide carbohydrates to the fungi and in exchange, the fungi aids in gathering water and providing nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen to its partnering plant.

This fungal network has been found to allow plants to aid one another in growth and flourishing. University of British Columbia graduate Suzanne Simard was the first to show that trees such as the Douglas fir and Paper birch were capable of transferring carbon to smaller trees that may not be receiving enough sunlight, allowing seedlings to grow in the shade of other trees. Simard believes that many of the world’s seedlings would not be able to survive if it weren’t for the lifeline this network provides.

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Why Do We Ignore the Obvious?

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I have a hard time with people not being willing to recognize what’s obviously in front of their faces. It’s a voluntary mind game people play with themselves to justify whatever it is they think they want. This is massively exacerbated by an array of social engineering tactics, many of which are to create the very mind sets and desires people so adamantly defend.

But that’s no excuse for a lack of simple conscious recognition and frankly makes absolutely no sense.

We can’t blame these manipulators for everything. Ultimately we all have free choice. Plainly seeing what’s right in front of our noses, no matter how well sold or disguised, is our human responsibility. That people would relinquish this innate right and capability totally escapes me.

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Benevolent Hand, Opposing Hand

By Open
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

How are we helped and opposed in our spiritual unfolding?

As we unfold spiritually and step onto the path of self realisation, the veils of limited reality are peeled away and our consciousness expands into multiple realms of existence. Whilst the centre of our consciousness and therefore frame of reference remains in this realm, we begin to experience increased psychic sensitivity; higher synchronistic activity and greater intuitive capability. We seem to automatically access a place of higher knowing…

Crossing the threshold of multidimensional experience

When we cross this threshold of multidimensional experience, the natural order of higher consciousness flowing through all experiences reveals itself in the synchronistic patterning of events. We notice we are we being aided and opposed in our continued evolution. What forms does this influence take? How can we understand it better and benefit from it?

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Raising Healthy, Happy Kids

By Lissa Rankin MD
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

When I wrote the title of this post, I think I might have been overly ambitious. How DO you raise healthy, happy kids? It’s a question I ponder almost every day and one my readers ask me about frequently.

Because I’m a mom, a doctor, and an entrepreneur, I’m often asked about my parenting choices, and as you may have noticed in my articles, I pretty much steer clear of anything you might call “mommy blogging”, not because I don’t have plenty to say about the topic but because:

1. Anything even beginning to resemble parenting advice can push a parent into a shame spiral quicker than you can blink...

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