HJ: Life will inevitably get challenging, however, you can transcend that experience and slip back into a place of beauty, inspiration and peace.  This wonderful, wise article from Marc Chernoff is all about how to do just that and re-align yourself with flow.

- Truth

5 Ways to Find Beauty in Painful Life Changes

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

Stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation that no longer fits, or no longer exists.

The reason for our suffering, in all walks of life, is our resistance to life’s inevitable changes.

And life is all changes.  To have lived is to have changed often.

Sometimes this is hard to accept…

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Researchers suggest children’s social skills are declining as they have less time for face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of digital media, according to a UCLA psychology study. Scientists found that sixth-graders who went five days without even glancing at a smartphone, television or other digital screen did substantially better at reading human emotions than sixth-graders from the same school who continued to spend hours each day looking at their electronic devices.

The study, published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, studied two groups of sixth-graders from a Southern California public school. One group was sent to the Pali Institute, an outdoor education camp in Running Springs, Calif., where the kids had no access to electronic devices. For the other group, it was life as usual.

“Many people are looking at the benefits of digital media in education, and not many are looking at the costs,” said Patricia Greenfield, a distinguished professor of psychology in the UCLA College and senior author of the study. “Decreased sensitivity to emotional cues — losing the ability to understand the emotions of other people — is one of the costs. The displacement of in-person social interaction by screen interaction seems to be reducing social skills.”

What if you put your faith in love again, and rather than being on high alert for the lack of it, you started looking for the evidence of the love that exists in you and for you? You would embrace being back in the flow of love which is your true state of beingness, and everything else would beautifully unfold from there. ~Archangel Gabriel

By Nanice Ellis

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

For many of us, being called “selfish” is worse than any four letter word that you can imagine. In fact, the fear of being labeled “selfish” often causes us to ignore our own important needs and deepest desires. When our entire lives are shaped around the foreboding dread of appearing selfish, not only do we suppress expression, we also disregard what would bring us the most joy in life. We might even stay trapped in jobs and long term relationships well past their expiration date, simply because we are afraid that our choices might be deemed self-serving to others.

On the spiritual path, or even the path of being a “good person,” we are often told to think of others before ourselves. Maybe as children, we were taught that it is bad to be selfish or we were even punished for thinking of ourselves first. In theory, it might sound nice to put others’ needs before our own, but when we constantly put ourselves last without question, we stay asleep and disempowered.

Take every single wonderful, inspiring, supportive, loving, caring, kind and sensitive thing anyone has ever said to you and stretch it to infinity; that is what The Universe knows you to be! ~ Creator