When suffering from an illness that requires a lot of attention, many of us tend to do the wrong thing and focus all our energy on it. We let it become a big part of our lives and eventually it begins to take over our lives. We let our illness define us as people and form an attachment if you like. Perhaps this is why it takes so long for people to fully recover and heal?

The mind and body are connected, and what we focus on grows. People who are suffering from an illness or are recovering will be sure of telling you at some point about it because it’s a big part of their life. They make it a part of who they are now. If you become attached to the illness and make it ‘yours,’ then how are you going to let it go and get better?

The ego will not enjoy reading this truth, I know because I have experienced it myself. It is not to say you’re not suffering from an illness, but by making ‘your’ illness a part of who you are then, you are letting it define you as a person, you’re letting your ego latch on to the illness and the story of what it has made you become.

By Frances Masters

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

There’s a lot of research into happiness right now. You know it’s serious when even the government wants to know how happy we are!

The success of any nation can no longer be judged just on Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A lot of time, money and resources are now being focused on measuring our Gross Domestic Happiness too.

There are various ways of measuring well-being. The current one favoured in the UK asks people their rating of life satisfaction.. rating of how worthwhile the things they do are.. rating of happiness yesterday.. and rating of anxiousness yesterday.

Source: www.generationopportunity.org | Original Post Date: April 17, 2015 –

Investigative journalist Benn Swann reports that medical marijuana activist Shona Banda’s son has been taken from his mother after he defended the use of medical marijuana in a drug education class.

Banda has Crohn’s disease, which causes the immune system to attack healthy bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, leading to chronic inflammation. She says she has used cannabis oil to successfully treat the disease. You can watch her video interview with Benn Swann here.

When she and her son moved from Colorado to Kansas, her medical use of cannabis oil became illegal under state law. She continued to advocate for the treatment while encouraging others to speak out as well.

COME TOGETHER   There is nothing you cannot accomplish when you are working together.  Continue to network and stay in communication with those you meet. Join together, supporting each other as needs arise. Comfort those who have fallen. Feed the hungry by teaching them to grow their own food. Share your wealth, that which you have accumulated through the years: your wisdom, knowledge, material gains and food resources.

Teach each other how to heal your inner wounds through prayer and meditation.
Teach each other how to heal your outer wounds through herbs, not medication.

Take time to dream your highest dream. What will it take to leave the unsatisfying chores of this day? What do you desire to do with your time? How can you be more kind, compassionate and loving? Be responsible for the raising of the children and caring of the elderly, for they are your past and future. Come together and begin changing your mindset, knowing that together you are One.   Dream big for all is attainable!  Muluc 8

To read this Message in its entirety, scroll to Day 229 at: https://mayanmessages.wordpress.com/days-222-234   Please include this web address when posting and sharing with others.  Many blessings, Theresa Crabtree

Before we can be real with others we must be real with our self first. We must put away the games and illusions and touch the real core of awareness within us. Then and only then can we have real and lasting relationships built on trust and honor.

The truth compels us to act from honor and allows us to share openly and humbly. We do not hide behind a well-constructed front built on illusion and ego, because we realize that transparency through awareness is the only way to total and complete healing.

Our strength is based on this newly discovered truth within us and we find courage within its clarity to stand tall within our being. Our vulnerability becomes a badge of honor within our heart and we are used by it as a key to unlock the hearts of others.