C0-Creating a Happier New Year
As we start another year, I wonder how many of us have made those New Year resolutions. This year I decided that I would take a different approach and start every morning by first practicing gratitude for life-all of it and then I would think of at least one thing that I wanted to do each day that would make me happy. It could be something simple like trying a new recipe, or asking someone that I haven’t seen in a while to have lunch with me or bigger projects like starting to repaint and decorate a room in my house.
As simple as this approach sounds it embraces many of the ideas found in traditional religions as well as new age prophets like Wayne Dyer, Abraham-Hicks, and Marianne Williamson. Even the Dahli Lama advocates the art of happiness as one of the most important disciplines we can cultivate. Why happiness rather than say goodness or godliness or any number of other virtues? Haven’t we all experienced the way happy people bolster our sense of well being? Don’t they make even the most mundane jobs seem less boring and the truly difficult jobs a little less onerous? Don’t you find that you laugh more in their presence? The happiness they share can also bring healing, hope, and gratitude. It connects us with Spirit and with the goodness of life.
So how do we create more happiness for ourselves and those around us?
I was fortunate to have a friend suggest that I read Abraham-Hicks latest book, The Vortex, which ended up becoming the springboard for this service. In the preface it says, “At the hub of these teachings is a profound concept: the basis of life is freedom; the result of life is expansion-and the purpose of life is joy.”
Freedom, expansion, joy-at first glance these may not necessarily seem to go together, but after reading The Vortex, I can appreciate how they are at the very heart of creating.
One thing I appreciate from my time spent with Journeys is how my concept of God has expanded, because of the freedom of spiritual exploration Journeys promotes. One of the few constants that scientists agree on is that the universe is constantly expanding. Abraham-Hicks would add that the universe, and everything in it is made up of vibrational energy that is expanding.
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