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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
Are you happy and passionate about your life?
If you said anything less than yes, please proceed to the next question…
Why?
A lot of times we think we must have everything in order, all our bills paid, our work done, and all the stuff crossed off the to-do list before we’re allowed to be happy and enjoy our lives. But it really does not work that way!
Life is lived moment by moment, and that’s how we create our moods… moment by moment.
Of course, it’s a lot easier to be happy when life seems to be going perfect, such as when we get that raise, all the traffic lights are green, and we come home to a dinner that’s already made. The thing is it’s possible those things can happen few and far in between and if we base our happiness on everything going right, we’re dooming ourselves to misery.
In the training material for Theta Healing the author,
I thought it was kind of an odd thing to say when I first read it. Why would anyone create reasons to be unhappy?!
But then I began to think about it. And I remembered all the times my husband told me he wasn’t in the mood to talk because of something at work, he had stuff to take care of, or he was tired. I also remembered telling him about things I wasn’t happy about; none of which were really earth shattering but simply inconvenient, albeit some were VERY inconvenient.
And then it hit me… All the times I’ve found reasons not to be happy without even realizing that’s what I was doing!
How many times have you experienced calling someone to say hi, asked how things were going, and they tell you everything that’s NOT working in their lives or all the things that are making them unhappy? When you get together with folks for lunch or coffee, do you talk about all the things you’re happy about or all the things that are going wrong? Most of us have even been told not to tell others about our good fortune because “it’s not nice to brag.”
We are so conditioned by society to focus on the things which make us UN-happy instead of the things which make us happy!
How many times have you heard about someone having car problems compared to someone watching a beautiful sunset, or hearing birds sing, or playing with their children? Often we don’t hear about the stuff that makes us happy because we’re trained to look for what’s wrong.
Perhaps gratitude journals have become so popular because they help us shift our focus to what we feel happy about!
Pay attention to your thoughts and words today and apply the rule “No creating reasons to be unhappy.”
See if you notice how many times you allow something little to get to you (including the person moving too slow in traffic or the toothpaste tube getting squeezed in the wrong place). They might all be valid reasons to complain, but don’t allow yourself to create unhappiness around them. Simply let them go and set your happiness free!
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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(Fill in the blanks.) Today, I
desire and experience…
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I also affirm the following positive reality:
“Taking the time to relax is my right — my
gift to myself and my spirit.”
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“The Universe offers
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© The
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RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS:
PERSONAL INTERESTS
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2007/02/01/brazen-happiness-C.doc.aspx#comments
Dear Folks,
At the above address you will find an interesting article
about Happiness and how we respond to various settings. For example, what if we work in an environment
that pulls us down all the time? How can
we stay happy? Here is one Recipe for
Happiness:
Take some time to list your talents and interests. This may involve going back into your
childhood to see what you were good at a long time ago. Also, you may have to unearth some things you
wished to do but never had the time or maybe support to do.
Taking your own personal interests into account, start
brainstorming activities you might do after work.
Set a goal of trying at least 2 new activities outside of work over the next year.
If you like at least one of them, go for it. So for example, you like Yoga. Why not try the new form of Yoga: Laughing
Yoga? Now you will get exercise and also
offset you hours at the office.
Try my recipe! You'll like it.
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice
since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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“And so just when we think that
resources are dwindling, we find new resources that can achieve the same
things.”
— © John Assaraf in The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
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ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By
THE SOUND OF EGO
Listen – do you hear that sound?
There it is: plop.
Ploop. Drizzle.
You may think it sounds like water dripping into a
bucket – a bucket that sounds as though it is becoming alarmingly full as we
speak. And it is indeed the sound of
water dripping into a rapidly filling bucket.
But it is so much more than that.
It is the sound of laziness. It
is the sound of procrastination. And it
is the sound of ego.
Mine.
Run amok.
Plop. Ploop. Drizzle.
It all started about a year ago, when some fairly
violent spring wind storms made a mess of the shingles on my roof. Thankfully, my father-in-law can fix
anything, and it only took a couple of plates of Anita’s chicken enchiladas to
lure him down here to teach me how to repair the shingles. He taught me how to clear away the old
shingles, to cut and place the new shingles, to nail them in securely and then
to fix them in place with tar.
“If you do it right,” he promised me, “your shingles
will stay in place through anything.”
Well, ALMOST anything. A couple of months ago a fierce late winter
storm blew a few of my recently repaired shingles out of place. It was cold and slippery on the roof, and I
didn’t dare go up on there to fix them again.
Then an unusually wet spring made it difficult to clear away, pound and
tar. When I finally had some time on a
sunny afternoon, I took my roofing tools up to make the needed repairs – again.
Only I didn’t take any tar, because I didn’t have
any. And the hardware store is a good
half-mile away, and dinner was almost ready and I didn’t want to take the time
it would require to drive all the way down there to pick up some more tar.
“It’ll be OK,” I reasoned. “I’ll just put a few extra nails in these
shingles to hold them in place until I can get some tar.”
“But what if we have another wind storm?” Anita asked
when I came down from the roof much more quickly than she expected.
“Oh, I don’t think that will happen,” I said. “How often do we get storms like that?”
“Often enough,” she said.
“Well, even if the wind does blow a little, I’ve
nailed it down tight,” I assured her.
“We’ll be fine until I can get some more tar up there.”
And we WERE fine – until last night. I won’t say last night’s storm was “the
perfect storm,” but it was enough to blow my well-nailed shingles into the next
county. Anita and I looked outside and
noticed that while our neighbors’ shingles were laying down flat in the storm,
our shingles stood up in the wind like hair on the back of an angry dog’s neck.
“Why . . .” she started to ask, then
thought better of it.
But it was too late.
I already knew her question – and the one-word answer: “Tar.”
To her credit, Anita didn’t boast about how she and
her father were right and I was wrong.
She didn’t say a word about it as I gathered towels and buckets to catch
the water that is even now running down our roof, sloshing through the
unprotected area where the shingles used to be and cascading into our living
room – a plopping, plooping, drizzling
testament to laziness, procrastination and ego.
Mine.
Run amok.
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— © Joseph Walker
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