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Micro Moments of Love
by Barbara Frederickson

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It’s time to upgrade our view of love.

First and foremost, love is an emotion, a momentary state that arises to infuse your mind and body alike. Love, like all emotions, surfaces like a distinct and fast-moving weather pattern, a subtle and ever-shifting force. As for all positive emotions, the inner feeling love brings you is inherently and exquisitely pleasant -- it feels extraordinarily good, the way a long, cool drink of water feels when you’re parched on a hot day. Yet far beyond feeling good, a micro-moment of love, like other positive emotions, literally changes your mind. It expands your awareness of your surroundings, even your sense of self. The boundaries between you and not-you -- what lies beyond your skin -- relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others -- really see them, wholeheartedly -- springs open. Love can even give you a palpable sense of oneness and connection, a transcendence that makes you feel part of something far larger than yourself.

Love, like all emotions, surfaces like a distinct and fast-moving weather pattern, a subtle and ever-shifting force. And the new take on love that I want to share with you is this: Love blossoms virtually any time two or more people -- even strangers -- connect over a shared positive emotion, be it mild or strong.

Odds are, if you were raised in a Western culture, you think of emotions as largely private events. You locate them within a person’s boundaries, confined within their mind and skin. When conversing about emotions, your use of singular possessive adjectives betrays this point of view. You refer to ‘my anxiety,’ ‘his anger,’ or ‘her interest.’ Following this logic, love would seem to belong to the person who feels it. Defining love as positivity resonance challenges this view. Love unfolds and reverberates between and among people -- within interpersonal transactions -- and thereby belong to all parties involved, and to the metaphorical connective tissue that binds them together, albeit temporarily. More than any other positive emotion, then, love belongs not to one person, but to pairs or groups of people. It resides within connections.

Perhaps most challenging of all, love is neither lasting nor unconditional. The radical shift we need to make is this: Love, as your body experiences it, is a micro-moment of connection shared with another. And decades of research now shows that love, seen as these micro-moments of positive connection, fortifies the connection between your brain and your heart and makes you healthier. [...] It can seem surprising that an experience that lasts just a micro-moment can have any lasting effect on your health and longevity. Yet there’s an important feedback loop at work here, an upward spiral between your social and your physical well-being. That is, your micro-moments of love not only make you healthier, but being healthier also builds your capacity for love. Little by little, love begets love by improving your health. And health begets health by improving your capacity for love.

--Barbara Frederickson, in Love 2.0

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Today's Daily Health Tip

Mood, Music, and Genre
by Hiyaguha Cohen

We regularly write about the powerful impact music has on body and mind, and here's a reprise.

Two new studies verify that music can play a powerful role in mood control. The studies come from opposite ends of the spectrum. The first found that uplifting music improves mood, and the second found that sad music comforts people suffering from a broken heart. In other words, there's room for music of many tones in your collection.

In the first new study, participants set out to deliberately improve their mood using music as an aid. The study asked 167 students from the University of Missouri to set their minds to getting happier. Then, the students listened either to the dissonant, somber music of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for 12 minutes,or to the far more chipper music of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo." A control group also listened to "Rodeo," but without setting the intent to get cheerier.

After listening, the participants rated their happiness level on a scale of 1 to 15. The passive listeners who hadn't set a goal didn't improve their mood in spite of the upbeat music, and neither did the Stravinsky contingent. But those who listened to the Copeland composition with intent improved significantly. The same results were found over the long-term. Subjects listened to the upbeat music every day for two weeks during lab sessions, and again the researchers found that those who concentrated on improving overall happiness did indeed achieve that goal compared to the control group.

Earlier studies have shown that music can improve mood, but what's unique here is the finding that the magic happens more effectively when there's an intention to improve mood, combined with the right type of music. Both elements are necessary; intention alone won't work if it's the wrong music. In fact, an earlier study (2003) in which participants listened to music while trying to get happy had the reverse effect. The subjects felt worse after the music session than they did before. What were they listening to? Stravinsky's Rites of Spring.

But what if someone feels angry or blue and isn't ready to get happy? Can joyful music make a difference? In fact, the second study determined that people who suffer from hurt feelings or problems in love respond to music that reflects their sadness rather than to music intended to cheer them up.

Apparently, when one has heartache, music takes the place of a friend. Sad music makes the subject feel empathized with, as the music mirrors back the subject's mood. This raises the question of whether the maxim "misery loves company" plays a role. In other words, if intention matters in terms of how music affects us, is our unconscious intention when we feel heartbreak to commiserate rather than to get lifted out of the doldrums, and does the right music simply amplify that intention?

Then again, Jon Barron talks about a young woman he knew years ago who listened to Joni Mitchell songs for hours on end whenever she felt romantically disappointed. And by the end of a single day, after listening over and over to songs of "circle games" and "urges for going," she was downright psychotic. Perhaps she's the proverbial exception that proves the rule. Or perhaps her intention was wrong.

On the other hand, if one feels frustrated because of something non-personal--a car problem, for instance--happy music actually can help, and sad music doesn't appeal.

Putting all this together, assuming we believe the studies, the picture looks like this. People who want to get happy and who aren't in bad shape to start with would do well to listen to dance music or something similarly elated while setting a happy intention. Those who are blue from heartbreak should listen to something sad until they feel well enough to flip over to the happy intention routine--with the exception of my Jon Barron's old acquaintance. And nobody should listen to chaotic, discordant music, unless they don't care about improving mood.

A few years ago, we reported on a study that found that teens who spent the most time listening to music had an eight times higher chance of being depressed compared to the teens who listened to the least music. Since the study didn't specify what type of music the kids listened to, we can only assume they listened to typical teen stuff--rap, hip hop, and rock. The question left unanswered is whether hard-edged music, when listened to over time, leads to depression more than other types of music do.

Research looking at how different types of music affect mood differently has found that the best results in mood enhancement come from music specifically designed to affect mood. In one study, 144 subjects listened to either New Age, classical, "designer" (music designed to have specific effects), and grunge rock. After listening to the grunge rock, the subjects had significant increases in fatigue, stress, sadness, and hostility. Sorry, Kurt Cobain! The New Age and classical selections had mixed results, but the designer music did indeed elicit the responses it intended to.

The problem with such studies is that all music within a particular genre isn't created equal. Just ask Antonio Salieri. As the recent research shows, different types of classical music may elicit vastly different responses. The same holds true for New Age and even rock music. A more useful study would look at the specific responses to specific songs or compositions, or even different singers or composers.

In fact, author and neuroscientist Dr. Oliver Sacks, has found that vulnerable people can actually experience seizures in response to a particular musical compositions. He cites one patient who had epileptic seizures when he heard Frank Sinatra songs, and another who reacted only to Neapolitan songs.

Dr. Sacks has also seen patients who experience swooning, hallucinations, and fits as well as seizures when listening to music. The point he makes is that music has enormous power to affect individuals, and the effects can be negative as well as positive. In other words, music has both "charms to soothe the savage breast" and the power to conjure up "Sympathy for the Devil."

Studies aside, you can tell how a piece of music affects you personally just by paying attention. The key here is to pay attention. Do you feel better after listening to a particular CD, or worse? Or to put it another way, you would be wise to choose your music well.

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Pictures of the week: From a dramatic lightning storm to a

playful whale

Lightning strikes the Willis Tower in Chicago during extreme weather earlier this week (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A burnt Jeep is charred white, while its wheels are turned to liquid after wildfires in the Black Forest, Colorado, raged through homes and communities (Reuters)

"That tickles mum!": African lion 'Tiombe' plays with her six-week old cub at Monarto Zoo, Adelaide, Australia (Dylan Coker/Newspix / Rex Features)

An aerial view of the Chrysler Building in New York City (Jason Hawkes)

The base of a tree is covered in caterpillar's webs. Hundreds of moth caterpillars have invaded a Cambridge park and covered the trees in the creepy white stuff (Rex Features)

3-2-1... blastoff: A soldier runs away from the launching pad as China's manned spacecraft prepares to launch for a 15-day mission (Reuters)

Protesters supporting whistle-blower Edward Snowden march to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong where he is in hiding. The National Security Agency contractor revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of phone and Internet data (Reuters)

Dozens of sheep, goat and cattle storm down a hill in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China (Reuters)

Still waters under a small yellow ferry as it passes through thick fog over Xin'an River in Jiande, Zhejiang province, China (Reuters)

A ball of fire rises into the air after an explosion in Istanbul's Taksim Square. Protesters are still occupying the square and Gezi Park after two weeks of protest and fierce clashes with police. At least five people have died and 5,000 have been injured (Reuters)

A boy walks past a mural painted outside the house former South African President Nelson Mandela once lived in, in Johannesburg's Alexandra township. Mandela has spent more than a week in hospital with a recurring lung infection. His condition has been described as stable but serious (Reuters)

A humpback whale puts on a spectacular show for spectators as it jumps out of the water and crashes onto the surface in Newcastle, New South Wales (Peter Lorimer/Newspix / Rex Features)

UK weather: Dramatic thunderstorms signal 'end of heatwave'

Britain's three week-long heatwave is set to come to an end this week, as dramatic thunderstorms swept the country on Monday night. Forecasters said thunder, lightning and hail will last intermittently through Tuesday and Wednesday.

UK weather: Dramatic thunderstorms

Lightning helps illuminate the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol during last night's storms. (SWNS)

In Smeeton Westerby, Leicestershire, there were also dramatic lightning strikes shortly after midnight. (SWNS)

Deep purple: A lightning strike lights up the skies above the London Eye on Monday night in central London. (PA)

The lightning above the already lit-up London Eye made for a spectacular light show. (PA)

Light show: Forecasters predicted two days of storms after the three week heatwave. (PA)

Lightning flashes across the sky above Poole Harbour. (SWNS)

Dramatic weather also struck Portishead, Bristol, in the early hours of July 23. (SWNS)

The way things happen always amaze me.
For this past year and a half I have worked at finishing my little house.
Have relocated(been relocated?) to another state and don't know many people at all.
I have been an excellent hermit.

All this time of not having neighbors and being completely isolated has been what was needed for me so I could release and release and release...so I could hear my Source within.
So I sat in my little hermit house and healed my heart.

But I was lonely.
There is a difference for me between being lonely and being alone.
I know I am never alone.
And yet there has been many times when I have yearned for companionship, friends,neighbors...
Human contact.

Which is hard when you are in a brand new place and know a handful of people.
And don't have any neighbors in the house next to you.

So I would sit and imagine a day when I would finally step into my new life.
The one where everything that was the old me, the way I was, had been let go.
I would imagine a life filled with loving friends and family.
One not being a hermit.
Peaceful.

Fast forward to now.

A family has moved in to the house next door.
Five kids under the age of 14(or there abouts)...one being a new born baby girl.
Absolutely love all of them.
They live their lives from their hearts and decided to be happy.

The peace and quiet,the hermit era?
Gone.
My son has also moved to the island and has found an amazing job.
Followed his heart.
He is the happiest I have ever seen him.
Has decided he really likes it here.
He is still quite messy,a trait he gets from me...
I guess we must not be quite 5d yet...

I went from having the house to myself and constant silence,to constant family and company.
And the neighbors say the kids have never met a hippy before...
The kids are always over,interested in what ever weird thing their neighbor is now doing...they see me as different, imagine that...

Probably going to have to get better at boundaries...but how I can I turn down the four year old face who asks please can we have a snow cone while already having walked into my house and is standing in the kitchen?
To me they truly are what I wished for... a beautiful family,who speak my language,who live next to me full time.
I got it in abundance it seems, for I never imagined a family of FIVE children living next to me...
I just had asked for nice and living their lives from their heart.
Abundance is quite the gift.

Funny they are starting a brand new life too...awakened and aware.
Just like me.
Birds of a feather flock together...

So why do I write this today?

Because when I held that beautiful baby this morning I realized that it is also for her that I am going through this now.
So her world will be different than the one I live in today.
For all of them really.
For everyone.

Even though at this point I have no idea how this will all play out, I feel the change.
I see the light at the end of the tunnel.

And even if nothing more happens, these last five years of my loss and hell have done one thing.
They have allowed me to choose to no longer live in that old world.
Everything that was not the truth in my life was stripped down to the bone and finally seen.
I saw it...
And I let it go.

After all if I am truly honest with myself:
The house was way too expensive,we were living beyond our means.
The businesses enslaved me to the tax system,which fed a consumer system,and I worked long hours so I could buy things to show my loved ones my love.
The marriage had been troubled for many years.
All of it is now gone.

And now?
I have friends that love and accept me.
I have a little house I can afford and feels like heaven to me.
Still working on the job thing,and the companion thing...but I am about to start a new business.
I have no clue exactly what,but I know it will take care of me while allowing me to do something I love.

So without having gone through my own personal hell,these last five years or so, I wouldn't have gotten rid of everything that was no longer for the highest good of all in my life.
Things and people and situations that seemed to be from the heart but really were not...
I truly appreciate what I have now, the people who love me,I see what is really important in my life.
Everything that was my life, is no longer.

And when there is nothing left, it is easy to start new.
Whether a life or even a world...

I have the opportunity at 49 years of age for a fresh start.
A brand new world to explore.
Mine.
And I feel I will be just fine.

All of us will be.

I feel we have become one conscious collective now,guided from our hearts.
Working together as one yet individually.
Now we just need to understand how this new way of being works...while we step into the unknown.

So we are trying to understand the unknown while stepping into the unknown...
Sure seemed easy when I decided to go for it, from the other side of the veil everything seems so easy...must not have read the fine print...

So at least I am stepping into the unknown with a roudy ,love-filled bunch next to me...which seem to be quickly multiplying.
God only knows what else is coming my way.
At this point all I do is go one step at a time.
One moment at a time.
That's all I know how to do.

And I apparently make awesome, snow cones...go figure.
Got that going for me.

Keep going my light family.
One step at a time into this new unknown.
Remembering to hold the babies along the way and reconnect to one of the reasons why we are all here,each other, to change the way things are, so that the future generations have freedom to BE whatever their soul desires from their heart,with no fear.

In Light and Love
marie

St Germain: "I AM in charge of
Your Financial Abundance!"

Ashtar On The Road Teleconference
July 9, 2013

"I AM St Germain, and I welcome you to this very special Gathering in which I am honored to come before you to speak to you of matters which we know - that is, all of us gathered here know - are of absolute importance to you.

"If we tell you that this time is fast fleeting - times of, shall we say, lack, for some of you, diseasement, for some of you, and even depression for some of you - we ask that you suspend whatever disbelief you might have and just join with us in these High Vibrations aboard the New Jerusalem. For we stand together in a circle upon the Bridge, and it is here that We Are One, and it is here that we have the opportunity to join together to take into our Hearts that which is Truth, and to empower even more the Love We All Are!

"So I would speak to you as I did the last time we gathered in this way on the matter of financial abundance, and the reason that I do so is because it is imperative that you turn away from this matter in your thoughts and in your, shall we say, concerns.

"Feel the abundance you already are, the abundance of Love, the abundance of High Dimensional abundance, the abundance, yes, the Abundance of Oneness!!! For we are truly joined, there is no separation among us. So when we ask you to turn away from lack and from worry and concern about financial abundance, that is an aspect of it which you need to let go of, in order to rise into the realization of your true Abundance, which does include dollars - very special dollars from my bank!

"Now I have said this before and I will say this again: I’m in charge!!! I’m not throwing down the gauntlet to anyone else - I’m simply saying that I’m in charge of this abundance. I’ve been planning for it, arranging for it, and knowing the Truth of it for years and years in your time. There is a flow of events which must occur before the actual dollars are showing up in your bank accounts. It’s all accounted for.

"There are many who claim to have inside information: 'Deliveries will be tomorrow, deliveries have started; you can cash in your dinars, or your Euros tomorrow.' They keep giving dates, and the dates keep going by with no big announcements, and until you hear NESARA announced it is best that you focus from a Higher Dimensional perspective. Get yourselves up in your vibrations and then see what these dollars are going to do! Focus on the energies of Unlimited Abundance to do whatever it is that you want to do.

"We encourage you to do this because to focus upon all of these reports is a one way, shall we say, pass, downward. Now some of you can look at these reports and stay even and not get depressed when these things don’t occur. If you can do that, and you choose to do it, for whatever reason, well and good. But we would advise you not to send them on to your friends because they may not be as strong as you are, and every bit of discouragement and every bit of depression creates an energy block in the flow and thus can create, if it is strong enough, delays. We know that none of you want delays!

"Ashtar has already given you some important ways that you can keep yourselves up.** When you are up in a High Vibration you can send out messages that others will catch and take into their beings - messages of abundance of everything in the World and the Universe, such as Love, Joy, gifts, and yes, financial abundance.

"Now there has been a big flurry on your internet about a group of people who say that they are going to be distributing the funds from my bank (they don’t say that) for the humanitarian projects - separate and apart from those who will be receiving the so-called humanitarian trust funds, or prosperity funds - and that you can apply. Well it all sounds really good. And you look at the kinds of questions they want you to consider in detail in your projects and you can go into more complexities if you desire, and so on, and so on.

"Well, we at Ashtar On The Road have been suggesting to you that you start planning, creating and visualizing the projects that you want to do, if you want to do something to help humanity, whether it be you and your family, or the entire World. We’ve been suggesting this for some time, but do it in visualization. If you want to organize it on paper, do, but if you send it in you are supporting a step that does not need to be taken. You do not need to send in the papers.

"We’ve got it all. We see your timelines. We can see what it is that you are here to do, Beloved Ones, and if you want to change it all, well and good, we can see that, too. We are so connected and we do have the overview, and yes, each and every one of you count, and are counted. Speak your visions directly - don’t put what you call the 'middle man' in the middle. You don’t need to!!!

"Now, when NESARA is announced there will be plenty of time for you to make known your projects that you desire to do - and you don’t have to - because everybody is going to get so much abundance that you will be able to do what you have passion to do. But if you will visualize, plan, create, meditate, so to speak, to send it out and send it into the Higher Dimensions, that’s a form of upliftment, not only for you but for all those who will benefit from your visions! And you will be broadcasting it on the Highest Levels!

"There is no reason for your name to be added to somebody’s list. You all are on the list of St Germain. You are all beautiful, wondrous, beings. We are telling you this. not to deflate your bubbles, but you will recall that someone else offered you an opportunity to be on a list, and it was KOS*** - and the White Knights had help, yes, from I, St Germain and others of the Ascended Masters - who went to remove your names from these lists, because it was not where your names needed to be. It was not in your best interests to be on these lists.

"So if you fill in these papers, sit in meditation with them, consecrate them, put them on your altars, tack them up on your walls, put them under your pillows - do whatever you choose to do and keep adding to it, keep reviewing it, keep empowering it. Do what you call the fine-tuning, fill in the details, draw some pictures, do whatever you choose to do!

"Like Ashtar said,** share your visions with your community in some way, whether it be your neighbor or your partner, your children who have full capabilities to support your visions -children and grandchildren we should shall say, in this group, and even some great grandchildren. Be joyful. Be joyful with your visions and know that the High Road is the way to their accomplishment!

"We love you all, and yes, we see you, even in our Oneness we see your individual visions, and we assure you that you will have all of the help. If you have a grand plan, let us say, for your entire city of 3 million people, you will have all the help you need, financially and otherwise, to do what it is that you choose to do. And there is only one rule, and that is to be joyful in it; to be passionate in it and to share the Joy of it so that it is as joyful for the others as it is for you!

"Now, there is a very good question that goes with this: 'If everybody gets their abundance, why would anybody need this?' Because - think about it - do you have an area where the Earth has been so polluted that it needs to be cleaned up? This will call for a general gathering of the funds, and of course, we shall help, and the technologies of the Ashtar Command shall be available to you, but it will still require people, technologies, and let’s face it, some equipment.

"What if all of the companies who are currently manufacturing weapons of war were to manufacture peaceful cleanup machines? What if all of the companies who were manufacturing these stealth planes started manufacturing space shuttles? For an interim this will take dollars. This will take the pooling of dollars!!!

"There is a single man, a very wealthy man, yes, he is a corporate man, he has purchased almost the entirety of one of the Hawaiian Islands. Now, you may not know it, the Hawaiian Islands are islands in the ocean, but there are very dry sides to every island. Every island has issues with not enough water, in parts of it. Yes, we know, the largest amount of rainfall in the world is located on one of the islands, but that’s a big mountain. That’s on a particular part of the island.

"To make a long story short, this man is doing something about the water shortage, he is planning on setting up a desalination plant. There are countries that do this, and there are some technologies which will need to be accessed in order to do it in a manner that is completely harmonious with Mother Gaia and all of her Kingdoms. But this man is looking into it.

"How many of you have heard of Dr. Keshe? Dr. Keshe has a machine that will power the entire world, that is, many of these machines! He has the ability to share the technology with those who want it. But who’s going to make the machines? Imagine, if you will, that all of the electrical companies of the world went into the distribution of these machines. And perhaps there would be some devoted people who, even though they might be having the ability to retire - having received their abundance from my bank - might be willing to voluntarily spend some time distributing the machines, helping people to get set up, helping the manufacturers redo all of the various machines you find in your household because you won’t need any wires any more; helping the builders to understand that they don’t need to put wiring into homes that they build.

"There are many, many ways, you see? I’m getting very practical here because I want you to understand that money will be an interim means of bringing about all of these grand transformations into the fullness of the Golden Age. You see, there is a difference between the entry point and being in the Heart of it, shall we say. And this is why we are calling upon you to initiate these processes.

"There are others, not at this Gathering, who have already initiated processes of their own; and when we say initiated, we’re talking about creating and adding to your visions. You don’t have to have every thought form and every process, just create the vision of how will it look, how will it feel, how will it be and keep empowering that vision!!! Then you can fine tune it or add to it, or do whatever you wish.

"We suggest that this a most appropriate substitute for your time and energies, and it can replace your interest in every message about dinars and all of those things. Empower NESARA, empower the post NESARA announcements, the Golden Age, with your passions, your creations, and your visions!!! If you belong to any kind of a group of two or more who meditate together, take your visions and put them in the circle and invite the others to do the same. They don’t have to be the same visions - you can share them and all of you can empower everyone else’s visions!

"That, Beloved Ones, is how you use the abundance which is coming to you. And you can let I, St Germain and those of us who are in charge of distributing the abundance, get on with our jobs, or Missions, of bringing it to you.

"We have given you much to think about and some things to do if you choose. Above all else, just know how loved you are and how empowered you are to join with us in exponential empowerment of this wondrous Golden Age, which we see you in the Heart of, on your timelines.

And so now, Beloved Ones, let us welcome Sekhmet.**** And we shall journey with her to her Crystal Room to empower your abundance of gold and of visions for the Golden Age Lifestyle! And so it is. Namaste!"

* St Germain selected the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for his introduction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNonij12tQ
** http://www.ashtarontheroad.com/love-is-the-mission.html
*** KOS is the King of Swords, leader of the Faction 3 White Knights. For additional information, see Tara and Rama's website, http://2013rainbowroundtable.ning.com/
****Sekhmet's introduction included her chosen theme song, Let Us Remember to Dance, composed and sung by Lei'ohu Ryder, from her album Mary's Songs.

http://www.ashtarontheroad.com/your-financial-abundance.html
Transcription by Brian Coe.
Given through Susan Leland, July 9, 2013. www.AshtarontheRoad.com
© Ashtar On The Road Publications 2004-2013.All rights reserved; however, this is a gift to all of us and it may be distributed freely on condition that all accreditation is acknowledged and that no part is altered or deleted.

I take an elderly relative out on a regular basis and she likes to go to her home town. It is a town that holds a regular market day and there are often gypsies roaming it, selling trinkets, offering blessings and readings etc. Now I do not have any issues with these folks and have had good gypsy friends in the past, but one in particular I cannot tolerate to be around. My whole being goes on edge the moment I see her and I admit that I actively avoid her. Not very spiritual, I know, but she feels like pure evil and completely closed to the light.

As we were strolling around, I must have not being paying attention and we walked right into her. My being went immediately cold and I did not hear what she said to me, but I couldn’t stop myself growling at her……NO! My barriers came down and I tried to just carry on walking past. I couldn’t. I felt the curse and tentacles of evil coming towards and around me and that was it. Anger flooded me and a spilt second later I turned towards her and exploded with Monadic Light. It was one of the most shocking moments of my life, I physically jumped. I felt suddenly 15 feet tall and 30 feet wide. The anger simply disappeared and I felt like I was looking directly into her soul. My being was completely open and held her  and swallowed her darkness in its entirety.

She went white; she really did and mouthed a silent scream. I am so glad that there was no voice behind it, it would have been excruciating. She turned and started to literally run away from me, in her fashion, because she was clearly physically limited.

My being returned to normal and I was so full of joy and gratitude that I just couldn’t stop the tears. When I turned back to my family, my mother was also white as a sheet, mouth open in shock.

Later, I was told what had been done. My Monad (and hers I guess) had decided to put a stop too this ladies activities, whatever they had been, and give her a massive wake up call. She was literally stripped of every entity, lost/trapped soul, soul fragment, negative thought form, shadow and shade she had collected over God knows how many lifetimes. My being was used as the door to send everything back to where it should be. Every ounce of negative, dark energy and power was burned away. She must have been truly terrified; I pray that she is okay.

I’ve been back to this town several times since and the absence of the gypsies is glaringly obvious. When God decides to act, darkness beware; there are no half measures and if you choose to be an implement of God’s will, expect to be placed exactly where your being is needed to accomplish what is needed.  

Abundant Blessings,

Gordon.

This is not really a tool per say, although there are lots you will be able to do with this. This is about you consciously choosing to stand as the true master of self within your rightful state of being. This is you becoming the real you. It’s a preparation level and there are three initial aspects.

This will, open, purify, re-align & energise your being, taking what is out of date, un-needed, causing difficulties & blockages; everything you want to get rid of.  It also has a protective aspect and repairing aspect, especially for the aura.

You may feel: dizzy, disorientated, spinning, waves rushing around & through you or like you are being gently squeezed. You may hear of feel pops, rushing wind, heat and/or coolness. If you feel nothing, it is a good indication that you are not sufficiently grounded into your body. It’s a good idea to quickly ground before & after. Take lots of water with this too.

The colour of the MWF is Golden/White/Yellow, although there may be colour changes during use, as determined by your needs; but it will start this colour and end this colour, which gives us an extra indication of when the work is complete.

Methods of use:

1. Request the ring to come. It will descend from your Monadic Self, down the charkra column 5 times, expanding through each of the immediate bodies, going into Mother Gia and returning to Source; taking with it all that should not be and all that you wish to be rid of.

Timing will differ for each of us, but a good guide is about a minute for each passing or 5mins in total. You have not done it wrong if it takes a little longer and you may receive information during it progression through your being. Please do not overuse, energy overuse drains you and causes internal conflict & friction.

      2. As above, but will purify all bodies at the same time. This can happen very fast indeed and is more about immediate need, such as protection in a lower energetic environment or self defence against energetic attack (seen & unseen). This can also happen without warning, but we must give permission for this to happen first. It can be very intense. The energy will download and explode out of you. It made me physically jump and I will blog this experience later today. It was truly immense.

You can state this permission in your own way, but here is an example:

“I give consent to access my being, on my behalf, in accordance with & in support of Divine Plan & Divine Outcome to my Monad, Spiritual Directors & Personal Assistance Teams and ask for The Monadic Wheel of Fire to be ignited within me during moments of immediate need.”

      3, Ask a question which needs a Yes or No answer. Ask for the Wheel to descend with the answer. It will come down to your heart & then up to your third eye through the throat chakra. So, you will actually receive the answer three times. This is to cover all three kinds of learning, whether you are auditory, visual or kinaesthetic (feeling).  

If you are unsure about the answer or do not get a direct Yes or No, you can ask again. But the chances are that there is more information you need in order to make the choice. Maybe you asked the wrong question; maybe it does not matter which choice is made; maybe there is an important lesson involved; maybe something has to happen first, such as an insight or an event; maybe it’s a choice that seems undesirable that you need to walk through (that your mind does not like), but will lead then to a wonderful opportunity. Relax, be open & go with the flow. This aspect can be used as often as you wish, wherever you wish.

The most important aspect of using this is just to relax, trust & be open to whatever happens. It is sent by the Monad, so you don't have to worry about anything, or even ask for this & that to be taken, but you can if you want to.

"Most are under the impression that our first desire for you is to ascend, this is not true. Are you surprised? When you were created, you were given three gifts; The Freedoms of Will, Choice & Expression. Our first desire is for you to just be, to experience all that life has to offer. In other words your path, your creation, your destiny is entirely within your own hands. This does not mean that we are not here for you, guiding, advising and encouraging you to come back to full consciousness of your true self. It simply means that you are your own master. All that has been created & given to you, is in support of your freedom to choose to re-join the One Soul, as you truly are – free of all contaminations of un-real love. Our first desire is to simply be able to communicate with you on a conscious level again, to commune within the sharing of our beingness. You do not need to ascend to begin to experience this communion (for you already have it), but one must choose to be within the higher energies of life, of love, to be conscious of it. This is what this empowerment was created for. Ascension takes effort & time, but it need not be as difficult as some are choosing it to be. Nor need it be so confusing or complicated. Ascension is but another choice and we desire to clarify that journey for each of you and make it more direct for all. You are ever loved"

The Monad.

PDF Download link: http://tkirproject.weebly.com/the-healing-well.html

Hope you have fun with this and do let me know of your experiences.

Gordon.

Learner rings 999 over late teacher

Press Association - Police received an emergency call from a learner driver involved in an argument with his instructor

• Press Association - Police received an emergency call from a learner driver involved in an argument with his instructor

A learner driver dialled 999 asking for "emergency" police assistance during a row with his instructor.

Call handlers at West Midlands Police were baffled when they received the call from a man just after 8am last Thursday reporting that his instructor had arrived minutes late for their session.

The caller told them: "I've got an emergency... the person who's supposed to be teaching me came late and now she's asking me to get out of her car. She's saying I'm giving her attitude... please come over. I need someone to complain to. Who should I complain to?"

West Midlands Police have released an audio recording of the mobile phone call, which lasts just over two minutes, to highlight the importance of using 999 to report genuine emergencies.

During the call, the instructor can be heard asking the man to get out of the car. The call handler advises the learner to speak to the instructor's employer or the body that regulates driving instructors before stressing the importance of only using 999 to report genuine emergencies.

West Midlands Police Contact Centre Chief Inspector Sally Holmes branded such calls "ridiculous" and said they deflect police resources from people in genuine need of emergency assistance.

She said: "We regularly receive calls on the 9s about lost property, people asking for directions and revellers who've been denied entry to nightclubs. Other recent 'emergencies' include a blocked sink plug in a hotel room and someone who'd forgotten their computer password!

"It's astonishing listening to them but they hide a serious truth. Each call often takes minutes to deal with as staff have to clarify the situation - it might not sound like much but, if someone is trying to get through to report a genuine life or death emergency, then a minute is a very long time to wait.

"I cannot stress enough the 999 number is for emergencies only. This is defined as a crime in progress, if someone suspected of a crime is nearby, when there is danger to life or when violence is being used or threatened. To contact police for any other reason, call 101."

No further action was taken against the caller by the police, a force spokesman confirmed.

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'Hello, Police? My children won't go to bed': Latest list of nuisance calls reveals bizarre reasons why people dial 999

Problems with Sky TV and a complaint about loud love-making were also among reasons they rang 101 or 999, according to data revealed by South Yorkshire Police.
Yahoo! News – Fri, Jun 28, 2013

Press Association/PA - Police revealed the bizarre calls as they try to crackdown on callers wasting police time. (PA)

Muddy trainers, lost trousers, and parents who couldn't get their children to go to bed are just some of the latest bizarre reasons why 999-callers have phoned the police.

Problems with Sky TV and a complaint about loud love-making were also among reasons they rang 101 or 999, according to data revealed by South Yorkshire Police.

One man in Rotherham even phoned to tell police that his neighbour dislikes him because he used to jump on a trampoline wearing a dress.

There were also two separate incidents where parents rang police to complain that their child would not go to bed when told.

Det Sgt Nigel Taaffe, from South Yorkshire Police, said: 'If you had your children's friends over and one went to the toilet in your Wendy house, most people would just clean it up. But we had someone ring the police.

'If your 14-year-old daughter has got her brand new expensive trainers muddy and her friends are laughing, most people would not ring us. But, again, someone did.

'They are generally one-off issues.

'But there are people who place a disproportionate demand on our resources and not for policing issues.'

South Yorkshire Police released the call handler log to highlight how both emergency and non-emergency numbers are misused.

The force is now sending letters and threatening legal action on those who consistently waste their time and resources.

Det Sgt Taaffe said: 'We're highlighting the fact that they are taking up the valuable time of officers, PCSOs and call handlers.'

Police also fear that real crimes - like hate incidents against the disabled - are meanwhile going unreported.

PC Nick Knowles said: 'There are a lot of people who need us and, therefore, a big demand on our services.

'But there are also some who have difficulty managing aspects of their own lives and don't understand the job of the police.
'They call us up for things most people would know how to deal with themselves.'

Police urged people to call 999 only in emergencies and to use 101 to report less urgent crime or disorder and for general police enquiries.

A selection of calls made by Rotherham residents to the 101 and 999 numbers during the past 12 months, as logged by the callhandler:

Caller is disliked by his neighbour because he used to jump up and down on his trampoline in a dress.

Caller states that her daughter, 11 years, is 'attacking her'. Questioned further, it turns out her daughter is being a naughty girl and won't go to bed.

Confused caller says she does not seem to be able to get films with her Sky TV card. Advised she would need to speak to Sky.

There is a couple with a big brown dog that is running around. It has not been aggressive towards anyone but caller is concerned as to the size of the dog. He has spoken to the couple about the dog but they have not done anything.

Caller says some children who live round the corner keep coming to her house to play with her daughter. She says that one of them has pooed in her daughter's playhouse. This child is three years old but caller is irate because they should know better.

Caller reporting he has two females, possibly from housing, knocking on his door and he doesn't want to answer it so is asking for police to attend. He states that he is on water tablets so doesn't want to talk to them.

Caller advising that he has found some driving documents that he thought he had previously lost and was wanting to let us know.

Caller wanting to report some youths being a nuisance. They have been coming on the street Christmas carolling but they can't sing and it seems like they are just trying to get some money.

Caller very distressed. The neighbours next door are making love very loudly with the windows open. This has been going on for some time.

Caller reporting four or five youths aged five to 11 on the street and they have thrown a stone at her window and smashed it. On inspection of said window it transpires there is no actual damage, just a mud mark which has wiped off.

Caller was in Newcastle for the weekend and woke up yesterday in his hotel to find his trousers were missing.

Caller reporting her daughter, 12 years, has been to the woods with four friends. They have all crossed a stream, on a log. The log has slipped from under her and she has fallen into the stream. This has ruined her new trainers. She asked them for help to get out of the stream and they stood there and laughed. Caller states that her daughter has then had to walk home with wet feet.

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How humans will survive in a million years
By Rob Walker, Yahoo News | Yahoo! News – Tue, Jul 16, 2013

An interview with the author of a new book about mass human extinction, space elevators and more

A Geminid meteor streaks across the sky over Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Dec. 12, …

If you’ve ever worried, or even wondered, about the ultimate fate of humanity itself, then here is the book for you: In Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Analee Newitz takes on the enormous topic of “how humans will survive a mass extinction.”

As that phrase (the book’s subtitle) indicates, Newitz proves to be an optimist about the science and potential technologies of long-term survival — but she didn’t start out that way. And while she makes her case in conversational tones, her argument reflects sweeping research: Methodically but entertainingly walking the reader through evolutionary history starting with mass-extinction events from billions of years ago, she works her way into the laboratories of contemporary researchers devising hard-to-believe innovations to save humanity from every future calamity you can imagine. Along the way the reader meets techno-thinkers and scientists grappling with pandemics and other threats, devising wild-sounding bio-energy alternatives, "converting urban spaces into biological organisms," preparing for the possibility of a planet-threatening asteroid, storing the sum of human knowledge in a discreet set of computer files and figuring out various methods of traveling to other planets — including a “space elevator.”

By the end of the journey, you can see why Newitz is optimistic that tech innovations could help our species persist for another million years. But should you believe it? We had some questions. Happily, Newitz had answers.

You write that you "set out to write a book about how we are all doomed," but you ended up writing about ensuring humanity's next million years of not being doomed. Was that a gradual shift in your thinking, or were there particular turning-point moments in your reporting and research?

The first turning point came when I was learning about the survivors of the Great Dying, a mass extinction 250 million years ago which took out 95% of all species on the planet. It was the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, caused by disastrous climate changes in the wake of a super volcano. And yet a humble little creature called Lystrosaurus (whom I've written about here), who looked something like a cross between a pig and a lizard, managed to survive this horrific period. Pretty much every other animal on land went extinct. And Lystrosaurus survived just by sleeping in protected underground burrows, and walking into new environments where it adapted to the new world that was emerging in death's wake. I figured that if this little pig-lizard could do it, so could we. I think at that point I realized that humans are no worse and no better than other animals — we are so good at adapting to new circumstances that it's likely we'll follow in Lystrosaurus' path.

I think my second turning point was when I began questioning why so many books focus on extinction and apocalypse and never tackle the arguably more important topic of survival. If we don't explore ways to survive, then we'll never do it. So looking at survival is useful. But I think survival stories are also far more rich and interesting than extinction stories. Survival is complicated and heroic and surprising. Death is always the same.

As someone who often laments my fellow humans' apparent focus on the short term — a complaint that's often linked to the way we use technology — I was amazed at the long-term-focused science and technology infrastructure you explore in the book. Was there any area of long-term tech research that surprised you the most?

What surprised me over and over again was how a lot of these seemingly far-fetched technologies are already in our grasp. For example, if an asteroid were headed for Earth right now, we'd almost certainly see it coming several years out. We have space-based telescopes that are monitoring over 90 percent of the nearby rocks that could hit us, and astronomers are constantly looking for more. All it would take are a few space probes of the kind we already have to go out into space, meet one of those asteroids, and just push it out of an intercept course with Earth. No need for nukes or fancy-pants antigrav technology. We also have the technology to build carbon-neutral cities and even carbon-neutral factories. It was surprising to me to realize how much of our planet's future really is in the hands of humanity. We don't need to wait for a miracle, or for a new scientific discovery. We just need to implement the knowledge and tools we already have. We can do it!

You write that "science fiction … may be among the most important survival tools we have," essentially because science fiction writers can help us envision what researchers might not be able to imagine. Ray Bradbury's conviction that humans would be on the moon in his lifetime supposedly resulted in him being treated like a crank. Today writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are viewed almost like seers in some quarters. Have we become more accepting of the view that science fiction can be highly relevant to everyday life?

Science has become part of everyday life, and therefore it's no surprise that science fiction is one of our most popular forms of storytelling. We crave stories about science because it helps us make sense of our civilizations. Science fiction can take something incredibly complex — like, say, genetics — and show us how it fits into our personal lives, or how it shapes society. Notice that I'm not talking about science fiction as a genre that predicts the future. There are many kinds of stories that try to tell us about the future, or alternate realities, and science fiction is merely one of them.

I don't think that SF's popularity today comes from people seeking answers about the future — they're searching for meaning in the present. That said, I think SF helps us think about what possible consequences might follow from a scientific or technological discovery. Equally as important, SF stories can help us think about society itself as a vast experiment, where each political regime or cultural power bloc is another attempt to solve our problems as a species.

A principle goal of Scatter, Adapt, Remember, you write at one point, is "to get us off this crowded planet and into space." This leads to some of the most insane-sounding stuff in the book — the "space elevator," for instance. You're talking about a million-year time frame, so it's perfectly understandable that you'd venture into territory that is essentially beyond our imaginations. But still: Did you encounter any schemes that were just too crazy to include?

The most implausible ideas I encountered were all about what humans would do in the long term instead of going into outer space. Humanity has a long history of exploring, starting a million years ago when our ancestors first left Africa.

By the time Homo sapiens evolved, our ancestors had already invented tools and fire. So we literally never knew a world without technological modifications (however crude). We are a species of tool-makers and explorers, and we're damn good at it. So I find it extremely unlikely that we would give up on exploring space. I think it's even more unlikely that we would choose to upload our brains to computers and live in virtual worlds instead of what we know as the physical world. I'm sure some people will do that, maybe temporarily while traveling through space. But just staying here on Earth when there are so many other awesome places to go? Like Saturn and Alpha Centauri and maybe even other dimensions? Whenever I encountered that idea, I found myself unable to accept it. But that probably reveals my own pro-space prejudices!

Now let's see if I can get you back into a pessimistic mood: Let's say you are right that we humans can persist for another million years. Why do we deserve to persist? What's so great about humans, anyway?

Whether or not we deserve to persist isn't really relevant to whether we will do it. "Deserving" is an ethical concern, not a survival issue. Even if humans are bastards, we are going to survive. We have all the traits of a survival species, just like Lystrosaurus. Saying that we deserve to go extinct doesn't solve our problems — it leads to both moral and practical paralysis. Humans are life forms, and life forms always fight to survive, no matter what. It's in our most fundamental, biological natures. So we'd better accept that, and work on making the future as comfortable as possible.

As human animals, we have evolved the ability to plan a better future for ourselves. We can even stop a mass extinction. It's not too late. We don't have to be angels to preserve our ecosystems. We just have to be practical, and not waste our time wondering whether we are good enough to deserve it. Let's not debate the magnitude of our sins. Let's get to work saving the world!

Annalee Newitz is on Twitter at @annaleen; her book is Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.

Too hot to sleep? 10 ways to beat the heat

Hot weather can make it hard to get to sleep so if you’re struggling to get your 40 winks as the mercury pushes 30, try our expert tips for a good night – whatever the weather

By Kim Hookem-Smith | Yahoo Lifestyle

The glorious summer days we’ve been enjoying come with a downside – hot, sticky night times that make it impossible to get a good night’s sleep.

And we can’t be the only ones who are getting grumpy and irritable despite the lovely sunshine, after spending the night tossing and turning. So we asked Dave Gibson, sleep expert at London bed makers Warren Evans, for his advice on keeping cool and sleeping soundly. Sleeping in hot weather can be difficult [REX]

“Most scientists agree that, in general, a cool room helps you to get to sleep easier,” Dave explains. “Some suggest that if you are sleeping in temperatures above 24°C, you’re likely to wake up during the night.

“Your body temperature naturally falls during the second stage of sleep, reaching its lowest point about four hours after the onset of sleep, which is why you might start off above the covers but feel the need for them later in the night.”

[Seven ways to sleep better tonight]

[Sleeping in separate beds helps my marriage work]

Dave’s top 10 tips to stay perfectly cool and sleep well:

1. Keep windows and shades completely closed during the day. Most people think that opening them will help circulate air - but actually it has the opposite effect. Keep them closed to help reduce the temperature in the room. Open them at night when the air temperature reduces.

2. Move the air around. If you can afford to, then invest in an air conditioning unit (which can also act as a dehumidifier). If not, get a fan to create a cross-draft. If it’s unbearably hot then add a cold wet sheet between you and the fan or even a bucket of ice in front of the fan to further reduce the temperature.

3. Go to bed cool. If you go to bed feeling hot and bothered you’re less likely to get to sleep easily and more likely to wake during the night. Wear light pyjamas and keep bedding to a minimum [REX]

Have a cool shower before bed. If you are still too hot, try an ice pack (wrapped in a damp towel) on the back of your knees or neck, which is a quick way of cooling your body.

Equally stick your feet in a bucket of cold water before bed or put on a pair of damp socks. Or try putting on a damp a thin sheet to cover you, as they do in the Middle East.

4. Keep bedding light. Get rid of the duvet and choose the lightest sheets possible (cotton and then silk). You want cover that is non-absorbent so they don’t absorb your sweat. If you are sharing a bed then use separate sheets to avoid the extra potential of disturbing each other as you are more likely to toss and turn.

If you go for no sheets at all, keep one at the end of the bed that you can pull on if you wake and are too cold. If you have a foam rubber pillow you may want to swap it out during the summer as it absorbs heat and can get very hot.

5. Get cold feet! Uncover your feet if you are using a sheet, as this will also cool you down

6. Pyjama ban. An obvious one, but rethink what you wear to bed.

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/video/everything-know-sleep-050000127.html

7. Hydrate. Drink enough water in the day. If you are dehydrated, you are more likely to get a headache/body ache prior to bed. Coffee/tea don’t count as they are diuretics and you need an equal amount of extra water to flush the caffeine they contain through the kidneys. Of course, if you drink tea/coffee too late the caffeine will also keep you awake at night.

8. Limit the noise. Open windows mean that outside noise may be a problem. Earplugs are an obvious solution. Or try putting on some low volume relaxing (unfamiliar if possible) music with no lyrics. Given that fans produce white noise this may be a bonus to block outside noise.

9. Control the light. Use dark, heavy blinds to filter out the light if you are going to sleep before dusk. Also try a neye mask to make sure your regular sleep routine isn’t broken by the long hours of daylight and bright mornings.

Avoid the temptation to stay awake longer in the lighter nights, as routine tends to be the best way (in the modern world of the electric light bulb) of ensuring that you get to sleep easily. Also block off all sources of LED light sources. Switch off or turn them over. Don’t switch on the full light to go to the toilet or if you get up during the night as it wakes you up.

Earplugs may be necessary if open windows make your bedroom noisy [REX]

10. Allergy management. Pollen can be a massive problem in the spring and summer, keeping many of us awake. You can fight the problem using an air purifier and close the windows as soon as possible in the morning to stop the pollen coming in.

Also try showering before bed, including washing your hair, to remove pollen. Anecdotal suggestions are that local honey can help with allergic responses too. (For more hay fever banishing tactics try our guide to beating summer allergies.)

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/hot-to-sleep-in-summer-hot-weather-heat-102959479.html

Summer mood boosts
Just like the Olympics last year, Wimbledon brought the nation together as we cheered Scotland's Andy Murray on to victory. There's nothing like a sporting event (especially where
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Summer mood boosts
Just like the Olympics last year, Wimbledon brought the nation together as we cheered Scotland's Andy Murray on to victory. There's nothing like a sporting event (especially where your side wins) to give you the enthusiasm to sail through summer.

And just because Wimbledon's over for another year, it doesn't have to stop there. As well as The Ashes, The Open and the Tour de France, there's also the London 2012 Anniversary Games to put us all back in that hazy summer Olympic spirit. Grab your friends and find a venue/screen near you.
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Generally Speaking, This Is the Shift
Posted by Maryann Rada

The new world is a thing of the past. The next world is one that has not yet been imagined, even by the best of minds, for the world of now is steeped in pain and traumatized, shattered and fragmented and seeking integration with itself. You are each coming into wholeness, step by step, and you will achieve it as you progress in the mindfulness of who you are, by paying attention to what appears in your field of vision and your subconscious thoughts surfacing in dreams and waking epiphanies.

However, you have not yet brought yourselves together as a people in the way that a clear picture and understanding of what the world could be can be clearly perceived. We would like to take a few moments of your time to bring you a bit closer to that understanding, and do it in such a way that the words we impart may sustain a trajectory in the direction of planetary oneness of intent for the race you belong to, which is evolving from human into something altogether new. We have been in a place similar to yours in our history, so we know whereof we speak, and beg just a small indulgence of time to weave our tale to your maximum collective benefit. We begin.

You can imagine yourself as part of a tribunal, a gathering of those who have decided to embark on a mission of scientific understanding of a new field of consciousness, a new territory of the field of reality to explore as seekers of truth and wisdom. You are one of many who work with the greater galactic community of free peoples; screening your waking mind for memories of such a gathering is good to do now. You can see that there is a lot of debate going on about how to proceed in the grand experiment of consciousness-gathering, as there are parameters of the experiment that you had not seen before which are now coming into view. This is normal when the topic of study is the evolution of the human formula from one phase of being to an other, higher one. There is a natural falling away of fixedness as fluidity of the experimental framework becomes more necessary.

The principles remain set, but the parameters will vary. You have the general idea of how this goes, as an experimenter in your own life, taking samples of different kinds of experiences and making sense of them in relation to your place in the reality you operate within. It is no different on the large scale, in which you are working on the soul level to gather the experiences of the various expressions of your temporally based emanations and embodiments in the timestream of Earth.

The moment you are aware of in the course of your lifetime is one experience for your soul. There are other emanations of your soul which have other embodiments, some of you in other places in time, some in other embodiments linked to the same group that forms the basis of a higher level of soul. You have come to this life to retrieve the experiences that your soul has ventured to gain, in the course of research of a more or less scientific nature, the results of which will be presented in a briefing at the conclusion of your present part of the experiment of soul.

Your life is of the utmost importance to your soul, and is of the utmost interest to the source of love and creation of life itself, the source of everything and the emanator extraordinaire, which we call OM. The experiences you garner will be your contribution to the answer that is eternally forming to the question of being in the universe at large. You are taking part in the activity of God’s willful exploration of the nature of love in every possible way. That is no small feat! But let us get back to our tale.

New world order is a thing of fear for many people. This is not the way the tribunal had originally anticipated a dream coming true, but nonetheless it is how they have watched things unfold. You, as part of this tribunal, have seen in the shadows a movement toward light, a shift in the timing of evolution that presents a new opportunity to the experiment to take on a greater range of experience and a greater potential for love to show itself in dramatic and generous ways. The word “experiment” perhaps is misleading, as there is a lot more going on in your reality than mere objective knowledge-gathering. The objective in the grand adventure of life on Earth is love, plain and simple, and the conflict that is being dealt with to discover the secrets love has to share is in the appearance of an unforeseen bend in the road showing up with an entourage of infernal vagabonds starving for love.

What do you know? Now is the time to kick into gear in that regard. Know what you know, and use it to pry open love’s box of secrets in this scenario of late-in-the-game awakening to the light threading through the space between you and the new reality that is taking form. Know that the day is stealthily moving into position to break through the barriers of darkness to illuminate the world as it wakens to awareness. Know that there are forces beyond the normal day-to-day reality that are interpolating energetic frequencies to sequence them into form. Know that every effort made in the direction of truth and justice is moving those sequences closer to being, and that nothing, no shred of thought, is wasted in this now.

You have had a say in the way you want to experience the life you are now living, and you will have a say in the way you want to go in the life to come, on earth or in another world. You have not been tricked into joining in a game rigged to one side, nor have you been brought into a losing situation.

Even in the darkest moments for yourself and the world you live in, know this is true. You have agreed in one way or another before arriving on the scene that you would participate in the time now at hand, and the direction of reality is changing to meet the temporality of the next phase of earth’s evolution.

Time is taking a new turn and the truth of the path of humanity’s past and future are no longer able to stay hidden from view. Understanding is now on the horizon for everyone to see, and the landscape from that perspective will never be the same for the collective cognizance of who you, as a people, are. Your motivation through the eons of getting to the point you are within now has been merely to transform as the planet transforms, nothing more or less, for within that act is everything that it means to be fully human and openly divine. We have seen the trajectory of your current line of time, and it is a signal to the core of divinity, of life, of the source of everything that the moment is at hand for the tale to come to a close and a new reality to begin. It is the moment you have been waiting for!

Give a simple thought a moment to rest in the silence of the heart as it enters into the space of embracing a new understanding. It is this: If you have been waiting for millennia to experience this moment, is it not worth the full attention of every soul embodied on this world?

If you represent one aspect of a greater energetic collective of divine intelligence called by you “soul,” is it not worthwhile to reflect on the power you, as embodiments of divine soul-stuff, possess?

Your next breath can show the thought’s color and form in a dance of energetic recalibration within the heart-space of your physical body, and establish it within the core of your foundational understanding of self in relation to the new reality of the new world that is now in the formative stages of birth. You have the ability to change your own world, this you know.

You as a people have the ability to realize a new reality, as the one that has been the backdrop for so long crumbles and dissolves around you. You are creating the new world this moment, this breath, this peaceful silent pause within the now that awaits formative input from your mind and loving impulse from the creative center of the heart. Time is telling the movement of reality towards the hour of truth being told. The tribunal is ready to tell its side of the story, which is the side of entirety and justice for all. You understand conflict and polarity well as an experience. You have some more secrets to uncover, dear ones!

http://renegadethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/generally-speaking-this-is-the-shift/

Sacred ceremony

Bride Hannah Batya Penet married Shalom Rokeach, the eldest grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach. The Belz Hasidic dynasty is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world. Some 25,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in one of the community's biggest weddings in years.

Some 25,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in one of the community's biggest weddings in years on Tuesday night, Getty Images reports.

Bride Hannah Batya Penet married Shalom Rokeach, the eldest grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach. The Belz Hasidic dynasty is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world, according to Reuters.

Bride Hannah Batya Penet sits with her relatives during her wedding ceremony in Jerusalem, early on Wednesday.

The bride is escorted by relatives on Tuesday evening

The groom, center, is accompanied by his relatives on Tuesday

The bride takes part in a dance during the wedding on Tuesday night

Hannah Batya Penet dances with a relative during the wedding ceremony early on Wednesday

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How the rest of the world brushes their teeth

How is it that some people who have never used a toothbrush have also never had a cavity?

By: Judd Handler
Tue, Aug 21 2012 at 6:40 PM

Muslim and African cultures clean their teeth with a stick called miswak, which naturally has a high concentration of cavity-fighting fluoride. (Photo: Zurijeta/Shutterstock)

There’s a 99 percent chance you are not super rich. But there is a good chance that you are part of the orally hygienic elite 1 percent.

While it’s common in the U.S. and other developed countries to use nylon and electronic toothbrushes, most of the world’s population, especially indigenous cultures and developing countries, still use old-world techniques to keep their teeth clean — if they use anything at all.

But are modern oral hygiene products and techniques infinitely better than the sticks, animal bristles and bones, twigs, feathers and porcupine quills that non-first-world societies used centuries ago — or continue to use today — to clean their teeth?

Is what one eats more important in determining oral hygiene than the materials used to clean the teeth and gums?

In other words, if tribes, clans and indigenous societies stick with their traditional diets and don’t eat processed sugar and junk food, is teeth-brushing even necessary?

Lack of oral hygiene can lead to heart disease, maybe

A 2010 study published in the British Medical Journal concluded that people who brushed less than twice a day had an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, due to inflammation and loss of connective tissue and bone support of the teeth. In the BMJ study, people who brushed their teeth less than twice a day, habitually, had a 70 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The study, however, did not consider the participants’ diets.

But Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation, tells Mother Nature Network that in traditional societies that have no access to Western foods with processed sugars and white flour, many of these indigenous people have no cavities, and flash smiles with perfect pearly white teeth, even though tooth brushing is rare, (or was rare, depending on the society).

“Within a very short time of forgoing their traditional, native diets, though, cavities become evident,” says Fallon, adding that the next generation of natives who eat processed food will begin to develop crooked teeth.

Fallon points to the research pioneered by the foundation’s namesake, Dr. Weston Price, an Ohio dentist, referred to in some circles as the "Charles Darwin of nutrition." The late Price, in the 1930s, traveled the world as a sort of a cultural dental anthropologist. His book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," features many photos of the teeth of various native societies, from isolated villagers in the Swiss Alps, to the Maori of New Zealand, to the coldwater fishermen of Scotland’s Hebrides islands.

Vitamin K to the rescue
Price discovered a substance he termed "Activator X" that all the natives with healthy teeth had in their saliva. Price didn’t know exactly what Activator X was, but shortly after his studies, science classified the cavity combating compound as vitamin K. A study published in the Journal of Dental Research states that in 1942, it was proven that vitamin K prevented the formation of acid buildup, which is a major cause of cavities.

Some of the foods that are high in vitamin K that Price observed traditional societies consuming were:

• Chicken or goose liver
• Fermented foods like sauerkraut
• Grass-fed animal fat
• Grass-fed, raw butter
• Egg yolks

So should you run to your nearest health food store and swallow a pill of vitamin K and not worry so much about brushing your teeth twice a day? And perhaps buy some goose liver?

“There’s nothing wrong with brushing twice per day. We are genetic mongrels in America. None of us has a perfect diet, so I would definitely recommend brushing your teeth,” Fallon says.

It’s not just junk food that causes cavities
Dr. Jacquie Fulop Goodling, a Manhattan-based orthodontist who has traveled the world educating people about oral health, addresses a common misconception that modern-day processed foods alone contribute to dental caries.

“Diet plays an important role but even natural carbohydrates like bread, rice and pasta — the staple in many diets — break down into simple sugars, which can cause decay. Also, there are many factors contributing to periodontal disease and diet is only one of those factors,” Goodling says.

Some societies that don’t use toothbrushes
“In many regions of the world, people are cleaning their teeth with twigs, most often from oak and neem trees,” says Dr. Steven Goldberg, a Boca Raton, Fla., general and cosmetic dentist and inventor of a modern oral care product, DentalVibe.

“They break a twig in half, splay and soften the broken end and then rub it on their teeth, in effect, wiping the surface of their teeth clean,” Goldberg adds.

Arab Bedouin tribes still clean their teeth by using the twigs of the arak tree, which contains antiseptic properties. Other Muslim and African cultures use a similar stick, called miswak, which naturally has a high concentration of cavity-fighting fluoride.

A paper posted on the National Academy of Dentistry’s website says that Hindu Brahmins and priests clean their teeth using cherry wood for an hour, facing the rising sun. Another religious group in India, Jains, cleans their teeth using fingers and without using a brush.

In other rural areas of India, people use twigs from mango, cashew or coconut trees.

What some cultures use for toothpaste
Some folk in rural India, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America use brick, charcoal, rangoli powder, mud, salt or ash for cleaning the teeth. This may result in gingival recession, abrasion and dentin sensitivity, says the National Academy of Dentistry.

Should Americans ditch their toothbrushes and clean with sticks instead?
The inconvenient truth about going to the dentist at least twice a year and replacing your toothbrush is that all the discarded toothbrushes and toothpaste containers end up in the landfill. But it seems that Americans are in no rush to clean their teeth with twigs. Toothpaste, whiteners, sugarless gum, mouthwash, manual or electric toothbrushes, floss, and other oral care items retailed at $9.1 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Market for Oral Care Products, 7th Edition.

Whether or not you choose to go native and clean your teeth with a tree twig, “Oral hygiene can be a very important component to our overall health. The mouth is full of bacteria and not caring for it can cause inflammation. The gums can become unhealthy if proper dental hygiene is neglected and this can create low-grade infection that can cause inflammation and other problems throughout the body,” says Rebecca Crowley-Huey, physician assistant at BodyLogicMD of Houston, who adds, “Brain fog, autoimmune disease, gut infection or imbalance, and fatigue can be some of the problems caused by inflammation and your mouth is sometimes your first line of defense against foreign material.”

Two times a day is much better than only one time per day, says Steve Krendl, a dentist at Hopewell Dental in Heath, Ohio. “A thin film of organic matter, called a biofilm, forms quickly on our teeth throughout a day. Left undisturbed, this turns into plaque, which can harden within 24 hours.”

Now that’s something to chew on.

How the rest of the world brushes their teeth

How is it that some people who have never used a toothbrush have also never had a cavity?

By: Judd Handler
Tue, Aug 21 2012 at 6:40 PM

Muslim and African cultures clean their teeth with a stick called miswak, which naturally has a high concentration of cavity-fighting fluoride. (Photo: Zurijeta/Shutterstock)

There’s a 99 percent chance you are not super rich. But there is a good chance that you are part of the orally hygienic elite 1 percent.

While it’s common in the U.S. and other developed countries to use nylon and electronic toothbrushes, most of the world’s population, especially indigenous cultures and developing countries, still use old-world techniques to keep their teeth clean — if they use anything at all.

But are modern oral hygiene products and techniques infinitely better than the sticks, animal bristles and bones, twigs, feathers and porcupine quills that non-first-world societies used centuries ago — or continue to use today — to clean their teeth?

Is what one eats more important in determining oral hygiene than the materials used to clean the teeth and gums?

In other words, if tribes, clans and indigenous societies stick with their traditional diets and don’t eat processed sugar and junk food, is teeth-brushing even necessary?

Lack of oral hygiene can lead to heart disease, maybe

A 2010 study published in the British Medical Journal concluded that people who brushed less than twice a day had an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, due to inflammation and loss of connective tissue and bone support of the teeth. In the BMJ study, people who brushed their teeth less than twice a day, habitually, had a 70 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The study, however, did not consider the participants’ diets.

But Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation, tells Mother Nature Network that in traditional societies that have no access to Western foods with processed sugars and white flour, many of these indigenous people have no cavities, and flash smiles with perfect pearly white teeth, even though tooth brushing is rare, (or was rare, depending on the society).

“Within a very short time of forgoing their traditional, native diets, though, cavities become evident,” says Fallon, adding that the next generation of natives who eat processed food will begin to develop crooked teeth.

Fallon points to the research pioneered by the foundation’s namesake, Dr. Weston Price, an Ohio dentist, referred to in some circles as the "Charles Darwin of nutrition." The late Price, in the 1930s, traveled the world as a sort of a cultural dental anthropologist. His book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," features many photos of the teeth of various native societies, from isolated villagers in the Swiss Alps, to the Maori of New Zealand, to the coldwater fishermen of Scotland’s Hebrides islands.

Vitamin K to the rescue
Price discovered a substance he termed "Activator X" that all the natives with healthy teeth had in their saliva. Price didn’t know exactly what Activator X was, but shortly after his studies, science classified the cavity combating compound as vitamin K. A study published in the Journal of Dental Research states that in 1942, it was proven that vitamin K prevented the formation of acid buildup, which is a major cause of cavities.

Some of the foods that are high in vitamin K that Price observed traditional societies consuming were:

• Chicken or goose liver
• Fermented foods like sauerkraut
• Grass-fed animal fat
• Grass-fed, raw butter
• Egg yolks

So should you run to your nearest health food store and swallow a pill of vitamin K and not worry so much about brushing your teeth twice a day? And perhaps buy some goose liver?

“There’s nothing wrong with brushing twice per day. We are genetic mongrels in America. None of us has a perfect diet, so I would definitely recommend brushing your teeth,” Fallon says.

It’s not just junk food that causes cavities
Dr. Jacquie Fulop Goodling, a Manhattan-based orthodontist who has traveled the world educating people about oral health, addresses a common misconception that modern-day processed foods alone contribute to dental caries.

“Diet plays an important role but even natural carbohydrates like bread, rice and pasta — the staple in many diets — break down into simple sugars, which can cause decay. Also, there are many factors contributing to periodontal disease and diet is only one of those factors,” Goodling says.

Some societies that don’t use toothbrushes
“In many regions of the world, people are cleaning their teeth with twigs, most often from oak and neem trees,” says Dr. Steven Goldberg, a Boca Raton, Fla., general and cosmetic dentist and inventor of a modern oral care product, DentalVibe.

“They break a twig in half, splay and soften the broken end and then rub it on their teeth, in effect, wiping the surface of their teeth clean,” Goldberg adds.

Arab Bedouin tribes still clean their teeth by using the twigs of the arak tree, which contains antiseptic properties. Other Muslim and African cultures use a similar stick, called miswak, which naturally has a high concentration of cavity-fighting fluoride.

A paper posted on the National Academy of Dentistry’s website says that Hindu Brahmins and priests clean their teeth using cherry wood for an hour, facing the rising sun. Another religious group in India, Jains, cleans their teeth using fingers and without using a brush.

In other rural areas of India, people use twigs from mango, cashew or coconut trees.

What some cultures use for toothpaste
Some folk in rural India, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America use brick, charcoal, rangoli powder, mud, salt or ash for cleaning the teeth. This may result in gingival recession, abrasion and dentin sensitivity, says the National Academy of Dentistry.

Should Americans ditch their toothbrushes and clean with sticks instead?
The inconvenient truth about going to the dentist at least twice a year and replacing your toothbrush is that all the discarded toothbrushes and toothpaste containers end up in the landfill. But it seems that Americans are in no rush to clean their teeth with twigs. Toothpaste, whiteners, sugarless gum, mouthwash, manual or electric toothbrushes, floss, and other oral care items retailed at $9.1 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Market for Oral Care Products, 7th Edition.

Whether or not you choose to go native and clean your teeth with a tree twig, “Oral hygiene can be a very important component to our overall health. The mouth is full of bacteria and not caring for it can cause inflammation. The gums can become unhealthy if proper dental hygiene is neglected and this can create low-grade infection that can cause inflammation and other problems throughout the body,” says Rebecca Crowley-Huey, physician assistant at BodyLogicMD of Houston, who adds, “Brain fog, autoimmune disease, gut infection or imbalance, and fatigue can be some of the problems caused by inflammation and your mouth is sometimes your first line of defense against foreign material.”

Two times a day is much better than only one time per day, says Steve Krendl, a dentist at Hopewell Dental in Heath, Ohio. “A thin film of organic matter, called a biofilm, forms quickly on our teeth throughout a day. Left undisturbed, this turns into plaque, which can harden within 24 hours.”

Now that’s something to chew on.

13 natural remedies for the ant invasion

Ants are making their way into homes this time of year. Thankfully there are natural pest control methods to help you cope with and eliminate the problem. Plus, many of the solutions use what you already have in your cupboard!

Photo: Lindspetrol/Flickr
Little tiny ants have been spotted in our new home, and many people are suffering the same fate across the country. As much as I love spring, I don't like bugs — especially bugs that can infest a house. Last week I asked for some advice in how to deal with ants naturally as I hadn't time to research it myself since I moved this last weekend. I got such good advice, I had to share it with the readers here at MNN as well.

Some of these measures are deterrents. That is, they deter the ants from coming in your house. This seems to work well for those with a mild problem. Others found that they needed to use a method that kills the whole colony of ants. I've compiled the comments and suggestions by category, allowing you to compare the different methods a little more easily.

1. Lemon juice
Teresa: We just spray around the openings with pure lemon juice … and it always works for us … something about the acid messes up their sense of tracking…

2. Cinnamon
Shayla:We use ground cinnamon around where there are coming it. It works really well.
Peggy: We spray cinnamon essential oil all around the doors, windowsills, floors, etc. keeps them from coming in. I put the sugar water and borax OUTSIDE!

Letia: Another vote for ground cinnamon. Easy to clean up afterwards and worked great for us!!!
Jean: Cinnamon and cloves. Makes your house smell nice and the ants just hate it sprinkled right in their path.
Patricia: We also use cinnamon oil. We draw borders around everything with a Q-tip dipped in it. They won’t cross it.

3. Peppermint
Heather: My mother-in-law has success with peppermint essential oil around windows and doors (any entries). Plus her house then smells awesome.

Julie: Dr. Bonner’s liquid soap in the mint aroma. Mix 1 to 1 with water in a spray bottle. Spray on the ant invasion and watch them suffer.

4. Borax, water and sugar
Kristi: We use borax, sugar, water and a touch of peanut butter. It takes a couple of weeks but really works. We used it last year in our old house and are implementing it again this spring in our new house. Pesky ants! Here is the site where I found the recipe:http://naturalantkiller.blogspot.com/

Christy: I second Diana’s comment about borax and sugar. I’ve made a thin paste before with water, sugar and borax, then spread it on little pieces of thin cardboard or stiff cardstock and placed them near where it seems they are coming into the house. They’ll eat it and take it back to their colony (just like the Terro liquid you can buy). The paste will dry up in a couple days, so you’ll have to make more. But I think I only had to do it twice before they were gone.

Chookie: What worked for us was a mixture of borax and sugar in water. Several years ago, we lived in a house where there was an ants nest in the walls. Removing it would have meant virtually demolishing the entire front wall of the house (not practical!), so instead, after a year or two of having flying ants swarm into our bedroom every year we decided to go on an ant killing spree. Conventional ant killers didn’t work. Borax and powdered sugar didn’t work. But adding water to the borax and sugar mix to make a thick sugary borax-y syrup DID work…. the worker ants took it back into the nest and it positioned the queen – result = no more flying ants. OK, so borax does need to be kept away from pets and small children, but it is relatively safe beyond that as it is only toxic if you eat it. my solution was to put it somewhere where the kids and the cats would not reach it but the ants could.

BeverlyC: We live in China and had a HORRIBLE ant problem in our house. Tried cinnamon, black pepper, vinegar, etc. etc. We were concerned about the borax because we have guests in and out regularly and the little children are often, well, naughty and undisciplined. When someone suggested Terro liquid ant bait and we found it was just Borax and sugar, we asked someone to bring us some. We could pick the traps up and put them away when company came and put them back out after they left. They worked wonders!!

5. Boiling water and dish soap
Jennie: We make sure all of our food is sealed up. The honey jar is usually the biggest ant magnet, so it gets a thorough washing and then is placed on a small water-filled saucer in the cupboard. We use a spray bottle filled with water and a squirt of liquid dish soap (I use Seventh Generation) to kill any visible ants. I also look around outside to try to find their hill; pouring a kettle of boiling water on it solves the problem.

Christy: I’ve done what Jennie mentioned too – boiling water will destroy an ant colony, or weeds popping up between sidewalk cracks or in mulch. It’s an easy, purely natural way to kill things that we don’t often think about.

6. Diatomaceous earth
Karen: Yes … diatomaceous earth (DE) works well … use food-grade not swimming pool DE. It should be sprinkled around the perimeter of your new home and you can also safely sprinkle it inside where you see them.

Do not wet the DE or it will not work. DE isn’t an instant kill but should resolve the problem within a week or so.

Jami: I have a pretty serious any invasion at my house too. When I moved in last April they had already made themselves at home. I did the cinnamon thing last year and worked ok, but they just kept finding new ways in. My ants weren’t attracted to sugary things, but protein, especially the dog food. This year I made some borax cookies and put them in the old fireplace where I noticed the ants returning a week ago. I also sprinkled DE around the perimeter of my kitchen and that seems to have worked better than anything so far for immediate results.

7. Chalk
Natalie: Oh! And they will not cross a line drawn in chalk. I drew a line around my window where they were coming in and it kept them at bay.

Anali: My grandparents has really good results with the line of chalk, they used powder that you can get at home improvement stores. It comes in a squeezey bottle so it’s easy to lay down a line with.

8. Baking soda and powdered sugar
Jennifer: Ants carry an acidic substance with them always for protection. I do a mix of baking soda and powdered sugar in a plastic lid set in strategic places. I think a little volcanic science experiment happens inside their bodies. Over the course of several days it has made a huge difference.

9. Coffee grounds
Lea: I have had success with used coffee grounds, I did know where their entry was, after putting it in the cracks they never returned. I also do know it doesn’t kill them, it just makes them move homes, (we have put them on beds outside and we just see them pop up a small distance away.

10. Cornmeal
Jill: One more thing to add to this. I saw somewhere to use corn meal. Well, it worked out since some moths got into my cornmeal, and I felt bad wasting it. That’s when I saw the idea and tried it. I sprinkled a little bit just off the back porch. Every day I would check and every day the same trail of ants was still there. Then I forgot about it. My daughter found another ant nest further out in the yard, and it made me remember to check the last trail. It was gone, completely gone. So, I sprinkled it on the new nest, and less than a week later, it is gone. If you google it there are a ton of places where it mentions it. Here’s just one link, and if you scroll to the Tip there is still another idea using molasses. Although if cornmeal will work I think it’s cheaper, and safer around kids and pets. http://www.ehow.com/how_6395566_kill-ants-corn-meal.html

11. Cream of Wheat
Rebecca: Cream of wheat! They eat it & it expands & they explode! Ha! I used it in my garden for ant problems. Kind of makes you wonder what it does to our insides when we eat it too

12. Vinegar
Kristie: Vinegar! Since we switched to using a vinegar/water solution for mopping the floors and cleaning the counters, our ant problem has vanished.

Mysty: Vinegar is the one sure solution, but you need to pour it where the ants have their nest, not just to where they walk around. If you find their nest just pour about 0.5-1 L of white (cheap) vinegar. I never had ant problems but my grandparents sometimes has as they has a big farm and there is always an ant problem is some corner of the farm

Cath: We used a mixture of vinegar, washing up liquid (ecover) and peppermint oil last year. Tracked them back to their nest and syringed it into the cracks. They never came back.

13. Equal
Tea Leaf: We killed our ants by mixing Equal packets with apple juice. It is a neurotoxin to the ants. Scary that people put these in their coffee.

http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blogs/13-natural-remedies-for-the-ant-invasion

Are You a Mosquito Magnet? Blame Your Blood
• Megan, selected from Mother Nature Network
• July 17, 2013

If you’ve ever suspected that you are irresistibly attractive to mosquitoes, you might not just be paranoid. Mosquitoes are drawn to all kinds of physical particularities, from smelly feet— which they flock to — to the carbon-dioxide and body heat that those with higher metabolisms throw off. Yep, that means kids and the naturally lean are more likely to be nibbled on.

But a little-known fact is that mosquitoes are also attracted to one blood type over all others. People with Type O blood were found to be twice as attractive to skeeters than those with Type A blood in a Japanese study. Interestingly, mosquitoes can taste, via skin secretions, what blood type we are before they suck any blood, which is what enables them to find their favored blood type.

The good news? You can repel mosquitoes naturally in a variety of ways. One easy way is by choosing different clothes. Mosquitoes are attracted to darker colors (black and navy blue) and alight less frequently on light colors like white, khaki and pastels — all popular summer colors. Perhaps mosquitoes have evolved away from landing on lighter colors because they can be seen — and slapped at — more easily. Mozzies are also most active at dawn and dusk, so if you avoid being outside during those times, (or stay in a screened-in porch, one of my favorite ways to beat the bugs) you can avoid them fairly easily.

Leaving spiders alone (with their webs intact) is another great way to reduce skeeters in your neighborhood; mosquitoes are a favorite food for arachnids and get easily stuck in their webs. A single bat can also eat hundreds of mosquitoes of an evening, so consider installing a bat box to encourage bats to live near your home, and they will feed on all the pesky biting bugs.

There are also plenty of delicious-smelling natural, nontoxic essential oils that repel mosquitoes. I use a combination of lavender, tea tree oil and a touch of citronella, which keeps the buzzing menaces at bay. Occasionally, a mosquito gets through the haze of scent and gets me, but it’s summer after all. A bite here and there reminds me that we live in a world inhabited by many, many other creatures — some of which want to eat us.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/are-you-a-mosquito-magnet-blame-your-blood.html#ixzz2ZVGteK4F

Trapped in Her Autistic Body, Girl Finds a Voice!

Inspiring! This report is a little dated, but still so moving and interesting. Carly Fleischmann was born with autism. Her parents would not give up on her — pouring into her life unconditional love and thousands of hours of therapy. It seemed hopeless, until a breakthrough at 11 when she found her “voice.” (Carly has since graduated from high school, written a book with her father, and is headed for college!) http://carlysvoice.com/home/

Provided by www.GodFruits.com
http://www.godfruits.com/trapped-in-her-autistic-body-girl-finds-a-voice-23444.php

I have noticed so many around me that are consciously anchoring the new vibrations and frequencies of the planet, that are literally asking to exit, to leave, they are so tired and just need a break.
Even with the shift being noticed by them...they still are asking to leave, or get a walk in to keep going.
Lightworkers are tired.

Nothing makes sense.
Our bodies are creaking and moaning from all the symptoms associated with raising our vibration, expanding our hearts,our
consciousness.
Many of us pretty much have left whole lives behind.
Friends, loved ones.
Homes,businesses.
Financial stability.
We don't fit in, we know too much(how does one unknow something...?)
We can't stop from going forwards.

We are now part of the flow, there is no going back.

The emotional releases are very hard.
The physical symptoms can knock us out for days sometimes.
The mental deprogramming is such hard work.
The ways we spread the light during our waking moments are constant.
And that is just our waking days, god only knows what all we are doing in our sleep time when we exit...

Do we rest at all? Ever?

I mean honestly,how many of us can function in society as it is today?

I know I can't.
Nor do I want to.
I don't fit here, I don't fit there.

I too have many times thought I could not go on.
Screamed in anger that I have had enough!
I want out now!
Completely broken down and hopeless.

And yet I am still here.

I know things seem to be at the lowest point.
Looking outside of myself,I see so many unsurmountable problems, such enormous foes to overcome.
But things are never as they seem in this world.
That is something I have learned.
Things are never as they seem.

There is a very different energy that is running through the grid right now,more complex, higher vibrational, more clear and definitely fluid.
The flow has truly become the flow.

(I am a grid worker, I feel the energies of the grid, and transmute through my heart the denser energies,((especially emotional energies))raising the vibrations and frequencies of the grid as the energies flow through me...)I then anchor the energies into the crossing ley lines.
I feel the grid very differently than others,(I guess that is because how I see it fits my "job" lol) but then we all feel everything differently from one another, why would we duplicate experiences?
I know that this difference i feel is really big,and I know that many feel it too.

There is a fluidity to the flow that was not the same before...
And you know how water is, it will go where it will go and take along with it all in its way.

I feel that we have all(yes all of us) been transmuting the energies and emotions and actions that were of lower vibrations that were running through the grid.
But this time was different than before, this was like tar and slush, the sticky kind, and it required a lot of work, for we are now transmuting deep energies that have indeed become very dense.
They don't want to go.
Like it there.
Made themselves comfy.

Gotta scrub extra hard.
Which is always difficult when one is tired and all they really want is to sleep.

So I guess I am writing this today to say that yes I know all are tired.
But there is change happening and we can all feel it,one way or another.
Our hearts,battered and bruised know we are making a difference at this time,all of us together...
Somewhere within us is a tiny little voice,for some it is louder than for others,but if we stop...
I know we all hear it,feel it...if we really stop,there is hope within us,again more for some than for others...but it is there.
Ultimately when we hear our hearts,we hear truth.
The truth unveiled.

We need to go within,hear our hearts and feel our world.

Hear our truth.

We feel the difference now, our hearts are indeed all connected, all one.
And so we will get past this.
Because our hearts are guiding us.
And when we hear our hearts and connect one to another, we are unstoppable.
At least that is what I feel is my truth.
What my heart says.

In Light and Love and full of Hope
marie