Will Meditation Help Me to be Happy?

Will Meditation Help Me to be Happy?

Osho

With me, happiness comes first, joy comes first.

Many people come to me and they say they are unhappy, and they want me to give them some meditation. I say: First, the basic thing is to understand why you are unhappy. And if you don’t remove those basic causes … More

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How Celebrity Culture is Destroying Who We Are

How Celebrity Culture is Destroying Who We Are

Chris Renzo, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

We no longer seek community as the most important, but rather that we, the self-proclaimed celebrity, as the most important.

We live in a world that celebrates image over substance and because of this we have lost sight of who we are. We are … More

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Choosing a Spiritual Practice

Choosing a Spiritual Practice

Sophie Rose, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

In this age of technology and materialism, when many wonder what tomorrow will bring, the resurgence of spirituality is a normal phenomenon. For centuries, people have turned to religions or other belief systems for support and understanding. Yet it never resulted in a better … More

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Want Cleaner and Purer Air? Try Air-Cleaning Plants, NASA  Says

Want Cleaner and Purer Air? Try Air-Cleaning Plants, NASA Says

Elizabeth Renter
Waking Times

NASA knows a thing or two about keeping air clean,  sending astronauts into space with a limited amont of breathable air for months  on end. Afterall, they can’t simply open a window when things get stuffy in  space. What NASA researchers have learned about air quality … More

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Aspartame: Safety Approved In 90 Nations, But Damages Brain

Aspartame: Safety Approved In 90 Nations, But Damages Brain

Sayer Ji
Waking Times

A new study on aspartame has the potential to reignite the decades-old controversy behind this artificial sweetener’s safety, or lack thereof.  As far back as 1996, folks were writing about the potential link between aspartame and increasing brain tumor rates.[i] Indeed, its intrinsic neurotoxicity and … More

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Study Involving 18,000 People Confirms Acupuncture for Pain a  Truly Effective Solution

Study Involving 18,000 People Confirms Acupuncture for Pain a Truly Effective Solution

Lisa Garber
Waking Times

Researchers examined over two dozen studies and  determined that acupuncture effectively diminished chronic pain – news the  pharmaceutical industry does not want to hear. The studies involved nearly  18,000 patients with back, neck, and shoulder pain, osteoarthritis, or chronic  headaches, and showed that acupuncture for pain … More

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Contentment Gone Crazy!

Contentment Gone Crazy!

Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

The path of a yogi includes the practice of Santosha, a Niyama, or observation outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It is one of the fastest ways to raise your thought-vibration to a higher level. Instead of focusing on what is lacking in … More

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97 Percent of Our DNA Has a Higher Purpose And Is Not ‘Junk’ As Labeled By Scientists

97 Percent of Our DNA Has a Higher Purpose And Is Not ‘Junk’ As Labeled By Scientists

Micheal Forrester, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

After thousands of years of being disconnected from higher dimensional frequencies, our DNA is finally breaking free from old patterns which have been stuck in a universal time matrix. However, humans will soon  know and understand why  97% of our  DNA has a  higher … More

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Why Are We Being Kept in the Dark Over GMOs?

Why Are We Being Kept in the Dark Over GMOs?

Dr. Mercola, Special Contributor
Waking Times

You may already be fully aware of the fight surrounding the latest California  GMO labeling legislation known as Prop 37, a bill which I have been very  passionate about supporting over the past few months. As it currently stands in  the United States, you … More

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10 Reasons Why We Don’t Need GM Foods

10 Reasons Why We Don’t Need GM Foods

GMWatch
Waking Times

Genetically modified (GM) foods are often promoted as a way to feed the world. But this is little short of a confidence trick. Far from needing more GM foods, there are urgent reasons why we need to ban them altogether.… More

1. GM foods won’t solve the  food

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The Heart Has Its Own “Brain” and Consciousness

The Heart Has Its Own “Brain” and Consciousness

In5D
Waking Times

Many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.

Far more than a simple More

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Nanotechnology, Terra-Forming, Transhumanism, and You

Nanotechnology, Terra-Forming, Transhumanism, and You

Anne Gordon, RN
Waking Times 

Many things are being altered right before our eyes, mostly without our consent, or knowledge. These changes are coming from well-funded and classified experiments, accidents, and new science, often with creepy ‘modern’ agendas driving them. This sort of broad scale change is unfolding in nearly … More

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Fukushima Fish Have 258 Times ‘Safe’ Level of Radiation

Fukushima Fish Have 258 Times ‘Safe’ Level of Radiation

Lisa Garber
Waking Times

The mainstream media is finished with Fukushima, but it seems Fukushima isn’t finished with us. A couple of irradiated fish captured near the inoperative nuclear plant showed 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo—258 times the level determined ‘safe’ by the government.

The plant ceased operations following … More

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911: Returning to the Light

911: Returning to the Light

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor
Waking Times

When we peel back the veils of what’s going on in the world, it’s going to impact us emotively in many ways. On this, the anniversary of 911, we can clearly see the metaphor: the old fear based reality is coming apart at the More

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Fighting Fracking in South Africa and Beyond

Fighting Fracking in South Africa and Beyond

Eileen Flanagan, Waging Nonviolence Contributor
Waking Times

South Africa announced Friday that it would lift its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction technique known as “fracking.” In response, Treasure the Karoo Action Group (TKAG) is launching a legal battle to protect the ecologically-sensitive, arid area in the … More

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Yoga For The Deaf

Yoga For The Deaf

Colette Barry, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

“The blind cannot see and the deaf cannot hear. Does this mean that what they cannot see or hear does not exist” - Yogarahasya

No one could have described the incomprehensible sensation of tranquility and harmony rooting from yoga, better than the wise words … More

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How Doctors Do Harm

How Doctors Do Harm

Dr. B.J. Hardwick, D.C.
Waking Times

The tide is turning.  When once it was unheard of for a doctor’s opinion to be challenged, today’s patients are getting second and third opinions, seeking out alternative care and pursuing natural, organic solutions to their health issues.

And now the medical system is … More

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6 Super-Foods that Fight Cancer and Prevent Cancer

6 Super-Foods that Fight Cancer and Prevent Cancer

Lisa Garber
Waking Times

Prevention is key with natural health solutions, although we firmly believe that anyone can beat cancer with nutrition. It is said that at least half of all cancer cases can be prevented through lifestyle changes such as diet, which also just so happens to be one … More

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Oh, This Stunning Moment – Truth and Love to the Nth Power

Oh, This Stunning Moment – Truth and Love to the Nth Power

Two Rivers, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

People talk about this time as a period of great awakening, a spiritual shift for humanity that will change everything, if we can only achieve it.  What does that mean?  What is supposed to shift in us?  Perhaps Gandhi comes closest to pointing us … More

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Recognizing the Significance of Consciousness

Recognizing the Significance of Consciousness

Nova Spivack
Waking Times

Consciousness is the most amazing of all things, but not everyone recognizes this fact. Fortunately, this can be changed.

For some people the experience of being conscious is so vivid that it is literally striking, almost shocking to them at times. It is clearly apparent to … More

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