The Hidden Blessings In Every Situation

•You Deserve Happiness
How are you feeling today? Are you happy or sad, empowered or frustrated, peaceful or angry, exhilarated or exhausted, love filled or hurt, secure or scared? We all have experiences in our lives that throw us into a negative state from time to time - and often the emotions we feel during and immediately after the event serve us in some way. If someone is threatening us for example, the fight or flight response will occur within us and that can be quite helpful. The way we often torture...

•The Importance Of Having Goals
It is very easy in life to get wrapped up in things that really don’t matter. So many of us get stuck in the rat-race trying just to make it to the weekend where we can take a breather only to start all over again on Monday. That isn’t much of an existence, but more like being a hamster on a wheel where you run and run and run and get nowhere. It is important to have some goals in mind about not only where you want to go, but what you would like to see and enjoy along the way. Make a list...

•Achieving Inner Peace Through Patience
Patience isn’t something that comes easily to most of us. We are so used to being able to get everything instantly that waiting for more than a few minutes for something feels like an eternity. Learning to be peaceful in all moments, especially while stuck waiting for something, can be a great way to develop not only patience, but to grow spiritually as well. Try to remember that each moment we have here is a gift and as such we should use our moments wisely. We should learn to be present...

•FORGIVENESS
We’ve all heard the sayings, “forgive and forget,” “bury the hatchet,” “move on,” and more. We are instructed in our society from an early age that we should forgive others and turn the other cheek when they harm us. No wonder it is so hard for people to forgive! Forgiveness for many marks defeat and weakness - a gift given to the one who harmed us. Forgiveness for many means that we lay down like a doormat and let people walk all over us again and again or that we somehow forget about what...

•Ten Steps Toward Happiness
1. FORGIVE Forgiveness is not a gift you give to others, it is a gift you give to yourself. Work on letting go of past hurts so that you can live a happier and more fulfilling life. Harboring animosity toward someone else does not help you get even with the other person, it only harms you. It wastes your time and energy that you could devote to something more beneficial in your life. I know it doesn’t seem right for the person who was hurt to have to do the additional work of forgiving...

•Changes To Make For A Better World
Everywhere you look lately it seems to be more bad news. You watch the television, read a newspaper or search the web and what do you see? A floundering economy, war, murder, abuse, fear, rape, inequality, lack of cooperation, hatred, and dishonesty. What for? When will it end? What will it take for people to understand that this needs to stop or we are all going down the toilet together? Our future, notice I said OUR future, is the collective responsibility of every single one of...