happiness – Page 3 – Confluence Daily

Reading Time: 4 minutes Being happy is a pretty nebulous concept. It’s hard to define and because it’s difficult to put a pin in it on the life map, happiness might not be the best goal. Maybe a better goal is having consistently better days, one day after the next, getting better and better.

The good news is having a better day is doable. It’s doable when you’re down and it’s also doable when you’re up to have even better days. These four insanely easy tips will make it easy to reach for just a little more feel good every day it’ll feel like cheating.

Evolve

May 10, 2018 Confluence

Why Not Taking Care of Myself is Lazy and Selfish

Reading Time: 4 minutes Circumstances and schedules aren’t an excuse. Not taking care of myself is lazy and selfish. The people around me deserve better than me showing up like a broken down bag lady.

What kind of day are you going to choose? What small choices do you need to make to have that day?

Evolve

May 10, 2018 Confluence

The Ebb and Flow of a Spiritual Practice

Reading Time: 3 minutes The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said that “matter is spirit fallen into a state of self-otherness”. His idea has often been interpreted in the thought that “we are not humans having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” If this is true, then we can’t not have a spiritual practice. We are spiritual beings. Our life is our practice.

Relate

April 30, 2018 Confluence

The Significance of the Naked Truth

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my experience, it always pays to be honest about our own feelings and emotions. As human beings we are a powerful creators and our feelings are a miracle. Learning to acknowledge them, embrace them, trust them and communicate them well, and remembering to do it all with kindness is a worthy goal. Telling the naked truth in a way that is kind is a powerful skill worth mastering.

Evolve

April 25, 2018 Confluence

The Wonderful Hidden Value of Guilt

Reading Time: 3 minutes Guilt only serves one purpose, and no, it isn’t to hound you and make you feel like crap until you finally give in and do what you think you should do.
Truly the one useful purpose that we can find in those feelings of guilt is that they can show us our own personal value system. And once we see what it is that we truly value we can usually find a way to honor that value without compromising our boundaries, our self-esteem, our decisions, and our freedom.
The first step to ending the feeling of guilt, or maybe I should say transforming the feeling of guilt is to ask yourself WHY you’re feeling guilty. What value is attached to your ideas about the situation?

Elevate

April 18, 2018 Confluence

There is Alchemy in the Details

Reading Time: 4 minutes The non-essentials are what makes life worth living.
Doing the non-essential provides fuel. Doing things that are important to you, but not necessary makes doing the critical tasks feel less like work.

Without the beauty of the non-essential life starts to look and feel very black and white. It loses its juiciness, and without that juice, you lose inspiration, and without inspiration, energy starts running low fast.

Thrive

April 16, 2018 Confluence

Five Ways to Change Your Life by Tweaking a Few Little Words

Reading Time: 7 minutes There are a few small changes in our language that have the potential to make a huge shift in how we show up in the world, to others and to ourselves. Here are five very powerful little language tweaks you can begin practicing today.

Evolve

April 10, 2018 Confluence

Complaining is Always a Smoke Screen and There’s Always Something Behind It

Reading Time: 6 minutes Beloveds, my invitation this week is that you weed out complaining. I encourage you to create a zero tolerance for complaining for a couple of weeks so you can hear its own unique draining cadence and learn to spot it before it heads your way. My hope is that you will change your narrative and become more grateful minded in your behaviors and your speech. This way you will experience feeling more empowered to change circumstances that you do not like.

Elevate

April 6, 2018 Confluence

Don’t Make Big Decisions From A Small Place

Reading Time: 3 minutes Your STARself is you at your most fab, your most potent, your most poised and powerful.
When you’re rooted in your STARself, the out-of-reach becomes possible, and the ‘shoulds’ fade away.
Words flow. Inspiration calls. Next-steps are obvious.
It’s bliss-filled and bountiful. And it’s where-and-who you’re meant to be.

Evolve

April 4, 2018 Confluence

Right This Very Moment, You Are Telling Yourself a Story

Reading Time: 3 minutes Nothing needs to change for you to tell a compelling, satisfying, enjoyable story about the moment you are in right now. Any good novelist knows that. The skill is in being able to artfully describe the mundane. That is the craft of both an exceptional novelist and a deliberate creator.