Category Archives: Happiness

Hurt Feelings No More

We’ve all been there—someone says or does something that hurts our feelings—a look or word that tears into our self-esteem. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can be sensitive human beings and care what others think of … Continue reading

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Are You Choosing Enlightenment or the Destruction of Happiness? The choice is yours.

Are you seeking enlightenment, or do you prefer to act and react only in human form? Are you growing into being a Bodhisattva or are you stuck in unhappiness? A Bodhisattva is one who is on the path to awakening … Continue reading

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Thought Shapes Our Reality

Our realities are shaped by events we have already lived through. If we die in the illusion of war, we may need to experience war again in this life to change the thinking. It is the thinking that makes it … Continue reading

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14 Ways to Change Fear-Based Emotions to Love-Based Emotions

Depression is a serious problem in our world today. Fear and anger rule too many lives. But we don’t have to live in these fear-based emotions. We can live in love-based emotions. Following are 14 ways to change fear-based emotions … Continue reading

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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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