Let's get straight into it!
If you want to live a happy life, then you MUST spend some time deciding what you want to do with your life, and then make the effort to live that life with passion.
Don't let life pass you by unnoticed. Have a change of perspective and discover the importance of living everyday as if it was your last.
The search for happiness is universal, and yet it is hard to find. Perhaps we are looking in the wrong place.
Inside of each of us we know when we are on track and we know when we are living a wholesome life that fits with the integrity of our particular spirit. I call this sense of well-being "The Enchanted Self".
I have found the most effective way to teach people how to access their Enchanted Self, i.e. to find and hold onto feelings of joy, and a sense of well-being is to share the Seven Gateways To Enchantment. It is a quick way to catch your Enchanted Self.
It is the mental and emotional perspiration that we need to go through as we struggle to live a life of meaning and joy. The inspiration is there, but it's the perspiration that most of us need to put into our daily lives to create for ourselves lives of enchantment.
How do we take all the moments of life that are often repetitive and ordinary and turn them into captivating personal times? How can we use these very times to practice good mental behaviors?
This is the third article for the series RECIPES FOR ENCHANTMENT - THE THREE R'S. Remembering the best, Restoring yourself, and Rapture. In this we are going to be talking about the third "R," which is the wonderful concept that I like to call RAPTURE.
Have you ever noticed how some Moms seem to be very contented and confident in their role as Mothers, and others seem chronically stressed and approaching burnout? Why are some Moms unflappable and able to keep their sense of humor, while others overreact to the slightest stressors in their day?
You are about to discover a simple technique for creating massive changes in your quality of life.
Have you ever heard this quote?
"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Are you so busy that you never have a social life? Do you rarely get together with your friends? If you are too busy to have relationships, your quality of life will suffer.
Life tends to overwhelm us over and over again. We seem to focus on the more negative things life throws our way. This can be very wearing on our relationships, so what we need to do is be aware of this fact, first and foremost. Then we have to sit and really think about a few things that we can do to battle against that happening.
Some people believe that achieving happiness is the purpose of life, yet the pursuit of happiness often leads to unhappiness. This is because happiness is actually a consequence of a different life purpose - the pursuit of evolving our souls in our ability to love ourselves and others.
In a search for happiness, many people look for it in other people and not within ourselves. Many people feel that things like money, a better job, better relationships..etc will make them happy. In reality, to find true contentment you must look inside yourself and learn to be your own best friend. That means you have to trust, love, and care for yourself just as you do the people you consider to be close to you.
The way in which we breathe can alter our lives rather dramatically and yet so many of us just seem to take it for granted that we are breathing fine. How about taking a bit more notice and noticing how when you change one of the most fundamental of autonomic behaviours; you can change your entire state of mind and physiology in many ways. Read more to learn how.
So many people seem to be pre-occupied with the past and what is going to happen tomorrow and lose track of right now. This moment is now is so very important for several reasons noted in this article. Learn how to engage in this moment more and how it can lead to much more effective personal and business success.
Do you want to rediscover a natural source of happiness that many of us tend to overlook in this modern hectic world?
It's available to all of us, twenty-four hours a day. It's free. It's as close as your own backyard. And best of all, it works.
How to Find Truth, Meaning, and Happiness in a Mixed Up World.
This world is a crowd. We all live in a crowd. Our family, our friends, our business associates, our co-workers, and our community. All these form a crowd for us not in the dictionary sense, but let us say that we are always getting connected with someone, somewhere and are not living on an island alone. Even then, many of us feel lonely. Are you one of them?