By Marcia Sirota, MD

A lot of people are attached to the idea of being “nice.” It’s not so easy for these individuals to let go of their need to be nice, or to appreciate how different it is from being kind.

This distinction is important, however, because these two ways of being lead to very different outcomes in one’s personal and professional life.

It will be easier to understand the difference between “nice” and “kind” if we focus on the opposing motivations behind each way of being.

The nice person is externally motivated. He’s driven by the need for other people’s approval and validation; he craves acceptance and is fearful of rejection.

The kind person is internally motivated. She has good self-esteem and isn’t looking for approval. She’s less concerned about what others might think of her and more interested in doing the right thing. Her compassion comes from an overflowing of her positive self-regard and not from the need to please.

HJ: Right here, right now, happiness is waiting for you.  When you let go of how you think things should be and start appreciating how they are — seeing the wisdom, good and beauty in how they are, that is always there just waiting to be noticed, then you will find happiness, right where you left it… in the present moment.

– Truth

31 Ways to Appreciate The Present Moment and Feel Happier Right Now

By Jessica Blanchard | Tiny Buddha | Jessica Blanchard

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~Arthur Ashe

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

A groundbreaking new study published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research titled, “Interspecies communication between plant and mouse gut host cells through edible plant derived exosome-like nanoparticles,” reveals a new way that food components ‘talk’ to animal cells by regulating gene expression and conferring significant therapeutic effects. With the recent discovery that non-coding microRNA’s in food are capable of directly altering gene expression within human physiology, this new study further concretizes the notion that the age old aphorism ‘you are what you eat’ is now consistent with cutting edge molecular biology.

Exosomes: The ‘Missing Link’ In How Plants and Animal Cells Communicate and Collaborate

This is the first study of its kind to look at the role of exosomes, small vesicles secreted by plant and animal cells that participate in intercellular communication, in interspecies (plant-animal) communication.

By Carolanne Wright
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

“The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.” ~ Dr. José Delgado. Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974.

“Military neuroscience” — Manipulating brain frequencies and energy fields

1. You feel like you’ve woken up dead.

Basically your mind wakes up but your body doesn’t, so you essentially feel trapped inside of your body unable to move. Many people wake up feeling like they’re dead.

2. It happens as you fall asleep and wake up.

Sleep paralysis can happen during either of the two transitions in your natural sleep cycle. Your body goes into REM and must eventually come out, but sleep paralysis happens when your body has trouble making the transition.

3. Sleep paralysis often includes hallucinations.

People with sleep paralysis have reported nightmares, but while awake. The mind is alert and the eyes are open. Some of these hallucinations end up being terrifying ones that feel as real as any other waking moments.

4. You can’t wake your body up.

You just have to wait it out.

5. It’s natural and it can happen to you.

It can happen to anyone really. Most people will have at least one episode of it in their lives, but may not actually be aware it happened.