Category Archives: Happiness
Are You Growing or Groaning to Happiness?
The playwright George Bernard Shaw said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” Read this quotation again because you must get this before you will be happy. Although you will have plenty of help along the way, … Continue reading
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Countering Negative Self-Talk
People think of me as a positive, optimistic person, but it wasn’t always so. It’s been a long and often difficult road to this inner joy that I now am grateful to experience. There was a time, however, when I … Continue reading
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Creating Happiness Grooves
Think of unhappiness as a groove worn into your brain from a constant flow of unhappy thoughts like a creek worn from water erosion. As humans, we tend to return to the familiar, even if the familiar is painful. By … Continue reading
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You Are Beauty; You are Joy
Go visit Mother Earth today. Ask her to hold you as the loving mother she is. Let your hands touch her, then cup your hands to your heart. Feel her filling you with her beauty, her love. Feel your body … Continue reading
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Turning Lemons into Lemonade
It makes me happy to see the preverbal glass half full rather than half empty; to make lemonade out of a lemon; and to turn an upside-down situation right-side up. I’m pretty optimistic, but sometimes it sure takes a lot … Continue reading
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Loving Rainbows
I love rainbows. I love the diversity of all the different expressions of red to orange to purple to pink to blue to green to yellow. I love the burst of different colors; it’s the differences that make the beauty … Continue reading
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Moments of Joy: Quiet Moments
I sit in the moment, and let the moment be what it is. Pleasure comes from watching the dance of the candle flame. Joy comes from watching Lily, my cat, watch me. Peace comes from feeling my breath move deep … Continue reading
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Stitches of Love
The postmistress handed me a pair of scissors so I could cut away the tape around the box that held a gift from one of my clients, Kathryn. We were both awestruck, the postmistress and I, as I pulled out … Continue reading
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Why We Need to Pay Attention to Our Thoughts and the Words that Follow
Since we’ve been knee high to a grasshopper, we’ve been taught to be aware of the words that come out of our mouths; that they have the power to hurt as well as to heal. Although it may sometimes seem … Continue reading
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