Day 29 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

Be happy is my mantra.

You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.  ~  Abraham
 
You can never become happy, but you can always be happy.  ~  Robert Holden, Ph.D.

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 28 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

The secret of creating anything I desire:  Get Happy!

So, why am I who I am, and why am I born to who I am born to, and why is it set up the way it is set up?” We say, “For the fun of it. For the joy of it. For the expansion of it. For the growth of it. For the difference in it. For the desire producing value in it.  ~  Abraham

Healing consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.  ~  Voltaire.

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 26 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

I choose my own unique path to happiness.

On the path to your happiness, you will discover all you want to be, do, and have.  ~  Abraham

Your natural state is one of joy, peace, and spontaneous fulfillment.  When you are not experiencing this, some contamination is present in your mind.  ~  Deepak Chopra

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 25 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

I am here for fun.

Nothing is broken; everything is continually changing and expanding.  You don’t have to fix anything.  ~  Abraham

Spend all you have for loveliness, but never count the cost.  For one singing hour of peace, count many a year of strife well lost. And for a breath of ecstasy, give all you have been or could be.  ~  “Barter” by Sarah Teasdale

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 24 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

I am selfish enough to want to feel good.

Feeling good indicates your connection to clarity, wellness, and abundance in all good things.  ~  Abraham

If there is unhappiness in you, first you need to acknowledge that it is there.  But don’t say, “I’m unhappy.”  Unhappiness has nothing to do with who you are.  Say: “There is unhappiness in me.”  Then investigate it.  ~  Eckhart Tolle

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 23 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

From my place of being happy – I have access to all that I desire.

The secret to happiness lies in actively cultivating our capacity to connect with kindness; with ourselves, with friends, family, colleagues; with those we may not know well, and even with those we may not like.  ~  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.  ~  Robert Holden, Ph.D.

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 22 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

Happiness is my spiritual practice.

Our Cherokee elders have always taught – Let us be like the water lily floating on the waters of experience, rooted in the mud and yet ever open to the sun and the clear light of reality. It is discipline at first, and then a continuing state of mind, a recognition that it is and that one is simply being.  ~  Dhyani Ywahoo

Don’t wait for those feelings of excitement, confidence and expectation that will come when your life suddenly takes off, because your life cannot suddenly take off until you first have those feelings of excitement, confidence and expectation.  ~  Mike Dooley

Week Four: Choosing Unconditional Happiness

Lots of Happiness Advise

Happiness is an Inside Job by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra, Happiness Now! and Be Happy, by Robert Holden, Ph.D., The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin are a few examples of my favorite books that acknowledge happiness as a path to empowerment and creating a life you love. Deepak likens happiness as the key to healing the entire world. Robert Holden writes of happiness as a spiritual practice. Sylvia Boorstein relates happiness to Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path.

Everyday Happiness

In the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin takes on a year “trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.” She didn’t want to reject her life. She wanted to change her life without changing her life, by finding more happiness in her “own kitchen.” She declares herself happy, but not as happy as she should be. She realizes that she is at her best when she is happy, more patient, more forgiving, more energetic, more light-hearted, and more generous. Working on her happiness didn’t just make her happier, it boosted the happiness of the people around her. She comes up with resolutions that she calls the Twelve Commandments which included being Gretchen and there is only love. One of her goals for the happiness project was to prepare for adversity – to develop the self-discipline and the mental habits to deal with a “bad thing” when it happened.

Unconditional Happiness

The first weeks of these vibes focused on strengthening awareness of the happiness within by savoring when you are happy and nurturing your happiness by appreciating. This week we do the heavy lifting of finding happiness no matter the outer circumstances as everyday life presents itself.

Week Four Processes

Meditation: The mantra, Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss might be a good choice for this week.

Be Aware of Your Feelings: During the day, be as conscious as you can of your feelings and note, in writing, if possible, any time you felt less than good. Examples: I felt irritated that I hit all the red lights. I felt hurt that he said that about me. I felt disappointed that I did not get that opportunity.

Expansion Spiral: The Expansion Spiral is a powerful tool to help you move to unconditional happiness from a less than happy perspective. Pick at least one of the experiences you noted from the day and do an Expansion Spiral.

Expansion Spiral:

• Draw a large spiral in your journal,
• In the center write how you are feeling about what is. Examples: I feel irritated that… I feel hurt that … I feel disappointed that …
• On the outer edge of the spiral write how you do want to feel about the “issue”. Examples: I feel comfortable that it will work out. I feel fine; the person must feel threatened. I feel sure something better will happen.
• To start, you do not resonate with the other statement. The goal of the process is to write statements around the spiral that do ring true so that you find relief statement by statement and come into harmony with what you wrote at the end of the spiral – even though the outer circumstance remains the same.
• Hint: Begin with more general statements about the circumstance to help find relief.
• Shifting the vibration of one subject does raise your point of attraction. However, your vibration on any subject is where you last left it, so it is very helpful to clean up vibrations one subject at a time.

Day 21 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

My happiness is my greatest gift to others.

Even the trees rejoice in our happiness because when we are happy, we exude from our bodies a vitality that renews the atmosphere around us.  ~  Dhyani Ywahoo

You are free to choose new avenues to happiness . . .  and in your joyous growth, you will add to the experience of all that is.  ~  Abraham

Week Three: Nurturing Happiness with Appreciation

Like Vibes

Appreciation is the same vibration as love and happiness. So, to appreciate is to practice happiness. Following your happiness has a deeply spiritual meaning for many people who interpret the function of happiness as helping you to focus on the essential truth of your life. Happiness is what helps you to discern truth from illusion, busyness from purpose, and love from fear. Happiness helps you to keep that which is most important to you in the forefront of your awareness and in the forefront of your life.

The Shortcut

There is an intimate relationship between appreciation and happiness. This beautiful intimacy is best summed up by happiness coach Barry Neil Kaufman, author of Happiness Is a Choice and co-founder of The Option Institute. Barry says that appreciation is the shortest shortcut to happiness. Heartfelt appreciation really is the fastest way to experience happiness now. It is impossible to be truly appreciative and neurotic; it is also impossible to be truly appreciative and not happy.

Types

Robert Holden writes of different types of appreciation. Appreciation can be a conscious reaction to things, people, situations, and outcomes that you declare good and positive. This kind of appreciation is personal and interpretative. Appreciation can also be a philosophy based on the premise that we live in a purposeful universe in which everything that happens or doesn’t happen based on the Law of Attraction. Everything that occurs is a reflection of the vibration you are emanating. And thus, can be appreciated for its clarifying information. A third type of appreciation comes from a holy revelation that you are what you seek. This appreciation is based on a knowing of your true identity. Happiness does not leave its source. What comes and goes is your awareness of what is truly valuable already belonging to you. Your true nature has the capacity to love unconditionally, to be unreasonably happy, and to be truly wise. You can enjoy these things now, because of who you are.

Week Three Processes:

This week the processes use appreciation to nurture what feels good to think about.

• Meditate: As always, we suggest meditating for at least fifteen minutes each day. Calming the mind certainly nurtures the high vibrations of happiness and a sense of peace. You might try allowing your breath to bring your attention into the heart center, the place where the inhalation comes to rest. Let yourself enter the space inside your heart center. Let the inner space of the heart expand with your breathing, softening and widening.
• Appreciate in word: in conversations try talking about what you are or have appreciated rather than complaining about a person or situation. Rather than criticize come up with what you can praise. Don’t keep repeating a problem; speak about solutions.
• Journal; Write about at least three of your favorite things, what you liked best, what you appreciated about the day. Of course, you could get on a roll and fill a page or two with appreciations.

Day 20 Law of Attraction Centering Thought

To allow well-being, I must be in joy.

Feelings of love, joy, passion, exhilaration, fun, interest . . . are indications of your vibrational match to well-being.  ~  Abraham

In all the spiritual traditions of the world, there is, at the heart, a rich untouched seam of joy, bliss, happiness, and laughter, as typified by stories of the joyful Christ, the laughing Buddha, the playful Krishna, and the singing angels.  For us, also, there is, at heart, a rich spirit of total joy that is constantly at play.  ~  Robert Holden, Ph.D.

Week Three: Nurturing Happiness with Appreciation

Like Vibes

Appreciation is the same vibration as love and happiness. So, to appreciate is to practice happiness. Following your happiness has a deeply spiritual meaning for many people who interpret the function of happiness as helping you to focus on the essential truth of your life. Happiness is what helps you to discern truth from illusion, busyness from purpose, and love from fear. Happiness helps you to keep that which is most important to you in the forefront of your awareness and in the forefront of your life.

The Shortcut

There is an intimate relationship between appreciation and happiness. This beautiful intimacy is best summed up by happiness coach Barry Neil Kaufman, author of Happiness Is a Choice and co-founder of The Option Institute. Barry says that appreciation is the shortest shortcut to happiness. Heartfelt appreciation really is the fastest way to experience happiness now. It is impossible to be truly appreciative and neurotic; it is also impossible to be truly appreciative and not happy.

Types

Robert Holden writes of different types of appreciation. Appreciation can be a conscious reaction to things, people, situations, and outcomes that you declare good and positive. This kind of appreciation is personal and interpretative. Appreciation can also be a philosophy based on the premise that we live in a purposeful universe in which everything that happens or doesn’t happen based on the Law of Attraction. Everything that occurs is a reflection of the vibration you are emanating. And thus, can be appreciated for it’s clarifying information. A third type of appreciation comes from a holy revelation that you are what you seek. This appreciation is based on a knowing of your true identity. Happiness does not leave its source. What comes and goes is your awareness of what is truly valuable already belonging to you. Your true nature has the capacity to love unconditionally, to be unreasonably happy, and to be truly wise. You can enjoy these things now, because of who you are.

Week Three Processes:

This week the processes use appreciation to nurture what feels good to think about.

• Meditate: As always, we suggest meditating for at least fifteen minutes each day. Calming the mind certainly nurtures the high vibrations of happiness and a sense of peace. You might try allowing your breath to bring your attention into the heart center, the place where the inhalation comes to rest. Let yourself enter the space inside your heart center. Let the inner space of the heart expand with your breathing, softening and widening.
• Appreciate in word: in conversations try talking about what you are or have appreciated rather than complaining about a person or situation. Rather than criticize come up with what you can praise. Don’t keep repeating a problem; speak about solutions.
• Journal; Write about at least three of your favorite things, what you liked best, what you appreciated about the day. Of course, you could get on a roll and fill a page or two with appreciations.