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Neurogenesis Allows Adult Brains to Change According to the Environment

How pliable is the human brain? Previous beliefs revolved around a static brain – a brain which did not regenerate neurons when old ones were gone. This is the way we used to believe, but now, a new belief contradicts that idea entirely.

A paper called Trends in Cognitive Sciences, written by Princeton University’s Maya Opendak and Elizabeth Gould proposes that neurogenesis, which is the process of regenerating neurons, happens in the hippocampus when the environment changes. This process helps with adaptation when stimulus causes change in both negative and positive ways.

In a recent press release, Opendak stated, “Neurons actually tune the hippocampus according to predicted changes. You can change your brain either by avoiding negative experiences or stimulating positive ones.”

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Portugal Cut Addiction Rates in Half by Connecting Drug Users With Communities Instead of Jailing Them

Fifteen years ago, the Portuguese had one of the worst drug problems in Europe. So they decriminalized drugs, took money out of prisons, put it into holistic rehabilitation, and found that human connection is the antidote to addiction.

The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection

This gives us an insight that goes much deeper than the need to understand addicts.

Professor Peter Cohen argues that human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. It’s how we get our satisfaction. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with anything we can find—the whirr of a roulette wheel or the prick of a syringe. He says we should stop talking about ‘addiction’ altogether, and instead call it ‘bonding.’ A heroin addict has bonded with heroin because she couldn’t bond as fully with anything else.

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Six Signs You May be Experiencing a Spiritual Disconnect

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“The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.” ~ Bill Benenson

First of all, if you are not prepared to reconnect with your soul, or if you are afraid of rejoining with the infinite source of all things, then this article is definitely not for you (but I dare you to read it anyway) and you should probably stick with the following article instead: 7 Ways to Remain Unexceptionally Ordinary.

If you feel like you are already connected and would like to take it to the next level, then read the following article after reading this one: 6 Signs Your Crown Chakra May be Godding.

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10 Tips For Raising The Positive Vibrations Of Your Home

Home is where the heart is. I’ve always believed that. But home is also where the soul is. Our spirit energy is shed into our surroundings. Face it: we have really negative times in our lives, be they arguments with our spouses or sick days. For that reason, it’s important to raise the vibration of your home once in a while. We’ll walk you through how it’s done.

1. Burn sage and incense.

Both sage and incense serve as ways to purify the energy of your home. Sage clears unwanted energy from any room. Incense has also been found as a treatment for depression! Make sure you’ve opened a window to allow the smoke, and the negative energy, slip out.

2. Do a little bit of clutter clearing.

There’s nothing more satisfying to me than doing some clutter cleaning...

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Soul Living

By John Holland

If you really want to tap in to the power of your soul and live a life of passion and potential, then the most important step is to remember that you are a soul.

I find it ironic that we all come from a place of Divine Source and inspiration, and yet so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to find it again! When you acknowledge that you are a soul and not just a body, then there’s really no limit to what you can achieve. When you begin living and viewing the world from a soul level and start to understand the nature and workings of the spiritual power of the soul, you’ll have a higher perspective and a deeper understanding of your purpose, your life, the world, and everyone in it.

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The New Home Battery: Is Off Grid Living About To Become Mainstream?

Source: www.naturalsociety.com | Original Post Date: February 18, 2015 –

One of the brains behind Tesla motors and Paypal, Tesla Motors CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new invention up his sleeve that will help power homes at low cost, and it will make living off-grid easier than ever.

A Florida woman had to stand up to a local judge to continue living off grid when he declared it illegal, but if millions of people start to live more self-sufficiently and sustainably, what will the corrupt judiciary say then?

Musk’s new invention is based on Tesla’s lithium-ion battery technology, and the new battery is expected to help the company become a leader in the growing home energy-storage market.

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Venezuela Officially Declares Bush And Cheney Terrorists, Bans Them From Country

Source: www.theantimedia.org | Original Post Date: March 3, 2015 –

Pentagon Holds Departure Ceremony For Rumsfeld

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that VISAs are now mandatory for US citizens visiting the country.

He also banned George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Venezuela, among other American politicians, calling them terrorists for their war crimes.

The new measures were aimed that those who “violated human rights and bombed villages as in Iraq, Syria and Vietnam.”

An article from RT says,

“Former US President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Republican Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Menendez, and Marco Rubio...

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25 Powerful Images Of Animal Love Can Teach Us So Much About Ourselves

Source: www.preventdisease.com | Original Post Date: February 17, 2015 –

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We can learn so much about love and ourselves by observing animals. Their interactions are a sure sign of that expression through body language without verbal communication. One look at these pictures is all it takes to appreciate not only the love between animals of the same species, but also cross species.

Mammals have the same brain structures and intricate emotional systems hard wired in their brains. We often do not give animals as much credit as they deserve for being complex, thinking, sensitive and empathetic beings, but they are. In fact, they demonstrate an unconditional love that all humans can learn from in their daily lives when dealing with each other.

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The Origins of Daylight Savings and Why it Wrecks Your Health

Dr. Mercola
Waking Times

For Americans, it’s that time of the year again—time to move your clocks an hour ahead; losing a precious hour of sleep in the process. For many, the time change associated with daylight savings time1 (DST) also means spending several days or even weeks feeling generally off-kilter.

As reported by Prevent Disease:2

“A study, published in 2007… combined surveys from 55,000 people in central Europe with data on 50 individuals’ sleeping and wakefulness patterns for eight weeks around the shifts to and from daylight saving time.

The researchers found people never fully adjust their circadian rhythms to the hour shift associated with daylight saving time (or, as it is known in Europe, summer time).

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If our spiritual experience does not resonate deep within our being, it is not truth. If what we hear does not echo in the chambers of our consciousness, it is not truth.

Mind, imagination, and emotion distort the purity and reality of many by making them think they are on a spiritual path of consciousness. They follow what they think, but do not know what they feel.

Awakening is our discovery within of the truth and nature of our consciousness. No one can bring us to this realization, but us. In consciousness, we are both teacher and the one taught.

Our awakening is ours.  Our consciousness is ours.  No one can give awakening to us. It is our personal discovery of the nature of our being and our relationship to all existence.

Namaste.
Robert and CJ

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5 Steps from Fear to Freedom

By Lissa Rankin MD

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

The following is an excerpt from my latest book “The Fear Cure

When we’re willing to view life as the teacher, even in the midst of uncertainty, a journey begins. This journey—some might call it the spiritual path—challenges us to shift from fear of uncertainty to trusting life in the face of that which we can’t know and don’t understand. After interviewing many people about what they’d learned on their own spiritual journeys, I discovered that the journey from fear to freedom, which is all about coming into right relationship with uncertainty, is a predictable journey, one that many have traveled before you and many will travel after you. As you read through the five phases, consider where you are on your own journey. It is a map of sorts and can help you assess where you are on your path.

The Journey from Fear to Freedom

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How Clean Is Your Drinking Water?

How Clean Is Your Drinking Water

By Dr. Michelle Kmiec

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

It isn’t a secret that clean water is vital for health, but just how clean is the water we drink?

Though we are told that tap water is safe to drink, there are many studies linking the chemicals found in tap water to various health conditions. So, to be on the safe side of health, what can we do to ensure that we are drinking the cleanest and safest water possible?

Let’s take a look at some popular options...

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Daily Message ~ Wednesday March 4, 2015

During times of accelerated energies, it can be confusing as to why some people seem to thrive, and others seem to struggle. Shouldn’t the energies be having the same effect on everyone? How can people have such different experiences in the same energy? If you understand that all movement is forward movement, it will begin to make perfect sense to you.

The people who are thriving in fast moving energies, are those who are non-resistant to their healing journey. They have likely already gone through their own dark night of the soul, which has facilitated their growth, expansion, and desire to step onto their own enlightenment path. The energy serves as an amplification of the energy they are already holding, and supports the unfoldment of what they have been working on consciously creating for themselves.

Those who may be struggling in the energies are also moving rapidly forward on their paths. It may be that they have been stuck in old patterns or habits, or living unconsciously. Rest assured, no matter how painful their experiences may seem, they serve the purpose of racing them headlong to the energetic bottom their soul requires for them to embrace change. When it becomes too painful to stay the same, a person will then surrender and their healing journey will begin in earnest.

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Astrology Forecast for the 2015 Virgo Full Moon

by Kathy Biehl

March 5, 2015 1

4 Virgo 50 / 14 Pisces 50

10:05 AM PST / 1:05 PM EST / 60:05 PM GMT

The Virgo Full Moon pulls our minds and spirits into the eruptions of the hyperactive first week of this hyperactive month.

A lot has been changing quickly and drastically, inside and out. We’re all in for some emotional catching up and processing. The question is what to do with our minds, and with each other.

It’s a high stakes moment. We’re nearing the final peak in the radical structural change that has been ongoing since 2012. Uranus and Pluto are setting off one last round of tectonic plate shifts as they move into the last of seven squares on March 16.

Each of them has cosmic assistance in their corner. Bigger-is-better Jupiter has been whipping up Uranus, the unpredictable, rebellious and individuating agent of sudden change. Now this Virgo Full Moon is tilling and moistening the ground being worked over by Pluto, the agent of unavoidable change. What we contemplate, vent and process now pours directly into that ground.

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