We live in a world where our attention is constantly being demanded and pulled into different directions. Phone calls, text messages, social media, the media, work, kids, the list can go on and on. Have you stopped to think about what life would be like without so much stimulation? Here are five reasons you’ll be…
By Jen Engevik of First To Know My quest to understand what the dying see began when I found out that my mom only had a few months (if that) to live. I wanted to be familiar with the stages she would go through and how I could best be there for her. One of the things…
Phillip J. Watt created a list of questions to be used as a self-assessment. The results of this assessment reveals to each individual, if their mind has been affected by the subtle programming of society via media, books, commentators, etc. Answer the following questions to find out how you have been affected. So, do you…
Alanna Ketler of Collective Evolution: Before the Europeans came to America, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.2 million to 12 million Native Americans inhabited the land. The population of the Native Americans was reduced to 250,000, due to mass murder, genocide, imported diseases, slavery and suicide. There is no question about it, these people…
Carolanne Wright of Wake Up World writes: For Matt Killingsworth Ph.D., studying happiness is a full-time job. A Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, inventor of the Track Your Happiness app and doctorate in psychology from Harvard University, he’s driven by the idea of learning what’s behind being joyful. So much so that he embarked on a…
Every day there are more and more people asking questions about themselves in regards to what they have been through in life. This is the age of awakening, spiritual awakening, which refers to a person’s ability to clearly see that what they perceive, experience, think or feel, is after all not the same as what…
There’s something about traveling. It gives us the chance to see the world, and ourselves, in a new light. And in my case, on my recent trip in Italy, it gave me the opportunity to pray in a new way. As I sat at the train station waiting, the railroad master emerged from her office…
“Enlightenment is our true, inner nature” says Author Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D. Unfortunately, most of us don’t even know this about ourselves because we don’t take the time out to focus on our inner state. If we focus we will reach a brief moment of alert consciousness, which will allow our thoughts to be free…
We live in an “on the go” world where most people never take a minute to simply think about the deeper dimensions of the present. Day to day life is on autopilot, from the time they start the day, ‘till the end. Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D , a professor of psychology, a consciousness researcher and…
Erin Mahoney of Tiny Buddha writes: I’ve always been a little bit scared of my body. And when you’re scared of something, you tend to avoid it at all costs. So that’s what I did for most of my childhood and teenage years. I avoided it in lots of different ways, and most dangerously, I…