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Joy and Happiness

Nature’s Beauty and Magnificent Power: Hail Storm in the Night

After a beautiful spring day yesterday, April 14, we were hanging out, unwinding and watching a little television. I’d been out in the yard earlier tending my patio plants, cleaning up the yard, and playing with puppy Seraphim. I had then basked in the day by sitting in the rocking chair and drinking it all [...]

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Top 11 Reasons That Make My Life Amazing, Miraculous and Fulfilling

Trees
Every morning the first things my newly opened eyes focus on are the beautiful swaying trees outside my bedroom window. Trees captivate me with their life that runs through them, the way they reach towards the sun and their intricate root systems which hold onto the ground. Trees remind me to make room in my [...]

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Too Busy to Stop and Hear the Music? Pearls Before Breakfast

For those of us who hadn’t already heard this story, as part of a social experiment Joshua Bell was asked by Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten to play his violin in a Washington DC subway station during morning rush hour. At 7:51 am on January 12, 2007, a few months before he won the Avery [...]

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every day wonders

intense thunderstorms
warm southerly wind
sunlight
starry starry nights
trees
spring
rocks, sticks, stones
self love
creating art
the beauty of imperfection
water
empty spaces
first cup of coffee in the morning
sense of smell
animal, birds, puppies and kitties
soul connections
unconditional acceptance
inspiration
So these are just a few of the things that fill my every day life with light and make my heart sing. What about you? Leave us a [...]

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10 Ways to Get a Positive Start on the Day

Getting up in the morning can sometimes be difficult. So what can we do about it? How can we wake up fresh and ready to great the new day with a positive attitude? Here are some things you can do in the short term and long term so that you will wake up refreshed and [...]

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10 Tips for Creating an Awakened, Conscious and Joyful New Year

One thing we all have in common is that we want the New Year to be happy, healthy and filled with exciting new opportunities. Creating the type of life that bubbles with enthusiasm requires more than short-lived resolutions and goals. Becoming more joyful requires listening to our inner lives and placing effort into the relationship [...]

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Let Joy Overtake You!

There’s a common goal that sets people on a path of awakening their Divine Self. That goal is the desire to have more than brief flashes of delight, but to live a consistently rich, meaningful, joyful, and fulfilled life. But what is joy? Where is joy to be found? And how do we create more [...]

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The Basic Principles that Rule Happiness—Principle #8

Happiness Principle #8:
Fighting the Bad Does Not Create Happiness
There’s something about mass consciousness that lures us into believing that in order to be happy we have “fight” what is wrong with us. We fight a cold, we battle our weight, we go to war with our illnesses, and we attempt to control our brains [...]

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The Basic Principles that Rule Happiness—Principle #7

Happiness Principle #7:
Happiness Requires Learning to Cope with Intense or Difficult Emotions
Emotions, especially intense or “negative” emotions, often feel bad and scary. Sometimes it seems as if those big emotions carrying all that intense energy could destroy us.
Emotions aren’t “negative” or “wrong” and they can’t really harm us. After all, they are just energy. [...]

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