Happiness is the result of my decision to be happy.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
In other words, happiness is a feeling I tap into, not an outcome of events.
I can be happy without changing anything in my life except
my relationship to my own thinking.
I decide to be happy and commit myself to making happiness my
state of mind, rather than relying on a set of circumstances to do it for me.
: o )Richard Carlson
Take the time to read that again. Happiness is a feeling we tap into, not from an outcome of events. We decide to be happy and consciously making happiness the only state of mind.
We decide, not the weather, not anyone else, not the results that we achieve or fail to achieve. We decide to make this our state of mind.
So why do so many people not embrace this fact? Why can't we just make this statement true for those who hurt, those who feel anger and those who seem to fall and stay in depressions.
No doubt some events in our life dicate a state other than happiness.
We lose a loved one or we have a failing health or maybe just fate grabs us by the collar and shakes us around a bit. Life can have a multitude of effects and outcomes. We will sense sadness, anger, remorse from time to time. It is indeed a fact of life.
But can we choose to walk away and move forward quicker towards that state of happiness?
Can we? Sure we can and when we decide that enough pain has been felt or enough sadness has been shared with ourselves we can move on.
Now let me take a step sideways here. If we experience a loss I in no way want to tell anyone that we need to stop and get over the grief process. That is not so easy. When we lose someone that we know or care about there is a certain amount of greif and sadness that will indeed flow.
Thats for certain. However can we at the very least ask ourselves, the question regarding those moments of grief.
Would the person we lost want us to share more in the memories of joy and reflect on the good times shared or would they want us to grieve and feel that intense pain.
If we really asked that question almost always it would be better to reflect on what was and those memories of happiness and joy than continue to grieve on what we will no longer share.
If you have that sense of loss and your in that moment of pain and despair I truly want you to know that you will feel the strength to move forward. You will and you will always cherish the memories made or shared with the one you have lost.
Prayers and silent reflection are indeed necessary for the strength to move forward. It can happen and you should let it happen.
This weeks affirmation (New)
This day is mine to reflect and project the joy in my heart for this gift of life. I choose to live a life that shapes and molds the energy that surrounds me. I am a perfect design and I choose to let that design in practice make a difference for others. I love that opportunity that has been given to me.
Enjoy your week, share a smile, share in some laughter and dream big and love always : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday
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On this day in history
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
1793 – Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
1945 – World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, who later rename it the "Frisbee".
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1997 – Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all the possibilities that lay in front of me
Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference
Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.
Thank you for the gift of gratitude may I use it and speak it daily to inspire others to do the same
Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.
Help them to construct a plan for a path of increased gratitude, enhanced desire to create a environment of more laughter and smiles.
May we have the insight to understand that we are in charge of our product that we produce
Help all us to understand that we create our results, our thoughts, our actions that make all the difference.
May we also understand the power of gratitude and prayer with meditation regarding all of our emotions no matter how large or small
We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.
May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
May I give thanks more.
Show appreciation more.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Today I will enjoy what gifts and blessings have been given to me.
Today I will share my gifts with others.
Amen
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