April McCarthy, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

The message to stop smoking issued by public health officials has been nothing less than paramount, repetitive and consistent in the last several decades. What about soft drinks? Daily consumption of just a half-liter of soda is linked with 4.6 years of additional biological aging, effects comparable to that of smoking, finds a new study.

The study found that drinking soft drinks is associated with cell aging, suggesting sugar-sweetened soda consumption might promote disease independently from its role in...

Every single time you choose to be in your highest alignment, you are creating a beautiful bridge between heaven and earth. It does not matter whether you do it through prayer, meditation, intention, enjoying nature, simply BEing, loving, or spending time in your passions, it has profound and far-reaching energetic results.

If every human being, regardless of their faith or belief system, would make spending time in that alignment a priority, it would have a tremendously stabilizing affect on your world. Can you see why extreme busyness is so destructive to you?

You are all far more powerful in your choices than you realize. Slow down. Connect. Find your joy. Bask in energies that support you and feel good. To do so is to be of service, both to you and your beloved planet. ~Archangel Gabriel

Ayahuasca isn’t about drinking and tripping. There’s more to it than that. There is a growing body of research that shows ayahuasca is an effective drug for dealing with a variety of disorders, like Post Traumatic Stress disorder. Regardless of that body of research, authorities continue to rebel against using psychotheapeutic methods that involve psychedelic drugs, even though ayahuasca, MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms have proven to be effective in relieving different types of trauma.

The few studies in the US that have been down show pretty clearly the potential benefits. So why all of the fear?

The post Don Luis Eduardo Luna On The Healing Properties Of Ayahuasca appeared first on Higher Perspective.

The Elwha river in Washington State flows from Olympic Mountain to the straid of Juan de Fuca. In the early 1990s, the river was blocked to make a hydroelectric dam, which cut nearby native American from their livelihoods of salmon fishing.

It’s been 20 years now, and finally, the Elwha river dam is coming down. It’s obsolete for energy production and no longer needed. This video depicts conservationists and engineers slowly going through the process of safely dismantling the dam.

There are more than 250,000 dams in the US and many are no longer used for anything. Most of them were constructed in the 1950’s and serve basically no purpose today. It goes to show the importance of tearing these dams down, one by one...

Randi G. Fine, Contributor
Waking Times

The human experience is not an easy one. When we enter this world we are given few guarantees about what awaits us on our journey. We are promised times of joy and times of sorrow, times of thriving and times of suffering, times of hope and times of despair.

Pain is unavoidable. No one escapes life without enduring their share of it. It may seem as if some have larger burdens than others, but that is not true. It is one’s perception that determines the weight of an experience. No two people have the same reality so no two people will experience adversity the same way.

There are many factors that contribute to our interpretation of life’s challenges. Upbringing plays a significant role in preparing us for the road that lies ahead. We navigate that road through the use of coping skills, healthy or unhealthy...