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Dr.Peter Russell, Letting Go of Doing

Letting Go of Doing is not about not doing things. It is about letting go of the doing mode of consciousness – the attitude we bring to our doing. The “doing mode” tells us we have to make a phone call, run an errand, respond to an email, do the laundry, complete the budget, prepare for the meeting. These may well be things that we have to do. But when we are stuck in the “doing mode” our attention is caught in the “having to do them, drive to get them done.

Josué Batista, Why Storytelling Works Better Than Cold, Hard Facts?

When persuading individuals to take action or adopt change, stories are more effective than facts. Stories bring down resistance and open the mind of the listener to new possibilities. Effective storytelling engages the audience into the story as actors, not simply listeners.

Dr. Steve Taylor, Transcending Human Madness

To an impartial observer – say, an alien zoologist from another planet – there must be very compelling evidence that human beings suffer from a serious mental disorder, and are perhaps even insane. The last few thousand years have been an endless catalogue of insane behavior.

Dalai Lama tops the Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2020

February 20, 2020. Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine (based in London, UK) published their annual Watkins’ 2020 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People – spiritual teachers, activists, authors and thinkers that change the world.

Jafree Ozwald, Surrender to your Divinity

Surrender is one of the most empowering, liberating, spiritually fulfilling experiences life can offer us. It’s much more enlightening than the mind can imagine. So it is going to take tremendous courage, strength, and patience to totally surrender your egoic desires to higher intelligence and guidance. Yet the good news is that surrender frees you from any suffering you are experiencing… instantly!

Dr. Peter Russell, “Our Global Crisis is, at its Root, a Crisis of Consciousness”.

Today we have reached a point where we can no longer afford to ignore this inner world. It is human actions and human decisions that lie behind so many of the world’s problems….Our global crisis is, at its root, a crisis of consciousness.
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Turmeric for Weight Loss: Can Curcumin Help Metabolism & Fat Burning?

Seemingly forever, turmeric has been a primary spice used in natural medicine to heal a wide variety of ailments. Extracted from the ground up roots of the Curcuma longa plant is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent called curcumin.
In recent decades, science has confirmed the positive chatter surrounding many of turmeric’s health benefits. With such great results across a broad spectrum of conditions, curcumin is now used experimentally in several different areas. But, is turmeric good for weight loss, fat burning, and metabolism?

Gloria Excelsias, How to live a happy life in the midst of a challenging environment

Our biggest problem in life is that we don’t actively choose our thoughts, that our emotions have a life of their own, that desires apparently overcome us out of the blue and that life in general just seems to happen to us. Our eyes are open but we are asleep.

Winter in Maple Grove, Ontario, Canada

Pictures by Jennifer White

Dr. Steve Taylor, Mystical Science: Beyond the Limits of Science

Many people believe that the powers of science are unlimited. Science is a process of uncovering the mechanisms by which nature works, and eventually, after enough experimentation and investigation, every mystery will be understood.