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5 Step Break up recovery plan

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This video is all about how to get past that last relationship, and start moving on.  You will find lots of great ideas for change, and heaps of direction for bringing positive influences into your life. We can heal and grow from our past, and move into positive new life.  Here is how!

Exercise:

The exercise for this tutorial are easy.  Just do those things suggested in the video, or at least some of them.

Step 5 is all about healing ourselves and making ourselves strong to create positive and healthy relationships in the future.  Here are some links mentioned in step 5.

Build gratitude into your life.

Learn the healing power of Forgiveness

Create a Mission Statemement and see below for a link to learning meditation.

 

Meditation:

Building self love and power through the yellow and green chakra is going to help you heal faster, and build your individual strength and power up that will lead you into a positive future. If you haven’t started meditation yet, click here for a very easy start meditation that will help you clear negative blockages and bring positivity to you.

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Please let me know how the 5 Step Plan helped you start moving forward.  What steps really made a difference for you, and what parts of How to Happiness helped you to step out of the past. 


Buidling Self Esteem and Self Confidence.

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People may say to you “you need more confidence” or “You’re lacking in self esteem”.  Or you may be like I was, where no one would say any such thing to me, as I was very good at putting on a front, and appearing confident, while underneath the mask I was completely uncertain and unsure of myself.  Either way, how are you supposed to get more confidence?

I guess lacking in self confidence and self esteem really means to not have faith in ourselves, be uncertain of ourselves, feel out of our depth a lot of the time.  This can stop us doing what we would really like to do, make many situations uncomfortable for us, make us self conscious, effect how we behave, what we thing of ourselves, and how others see us.

I want to address building confidence and self esteem because it has such a huge influences on our overall level of Happiness.  However, as I begin to plan this post, I find that I have already discussed much of this in my previous posts!

Firstly, when you decide to make changes in your life to gain more happiness, you immediately start building self esteem, for you are acknowledging that you deserve happiness in your life.  You give yourself Read more »

Gratitude – A Quick Step to Happiness

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What is so great about being grateful?

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During this short video I let you know why feeling grateful and thankful can be a powerful way to create happiness in your life. Not only does it promote health and a positive attitude, but it begins to bring a lot more things to be grateful and thankful for into your life.

 

How to be grateful, about what, and when.

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I recorded this video in a grave yard, just to remind us that is nothing else, we can be grateful to be alive!  Here I talk about what grateful feels like, that we need to find things to be grateful and thankful for, then focus on those feelings to increase them.  We look at what you can be grateful for, which could be anything from the trillions of beautiful, amazing, perfect things in nature, to the simple little things in life that go right, like getting a sort after car park, right through to being grateful for negative emotions and feelings just for the indication and reminder that we live.  Then we went through a series of exercises you can do for one to two weeks, practicing gratitude, and see how different you feel after focusing on the good.  Here they are:

Exercise:   Practice these for 1-2 weeks (Continue as long as you like – forever is recommended!)


1.  Do the Happiness Survey before you begin, so you can measure your success and progress

2.  Write in a gratitude diary every night 3 things that you are grateful and thankful for during your day

3.   Appreciate someone every day and let them know

4.   Do something nice for someone every day

5.  Tell people about the things you are grateful for – in every conversation try to throw in something that you are glad about

6.  Do the Happiness Survey again to see if gratefulness and thankfulness really DO make you happier (then decide to keep doing it!)

 

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Spend  lots of  time in  the heart chakra  (green)  swelling  up your heart with  thankfulness and  gratefulness, and  pour out  appreciation and  love in  gratitude to the  wonderful  people in your life.

 

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I would really love to hear about how gratefulness is making you happier.  Also, if there has been an effect on your friends because of your positive words.  How did someone   react to your act of appreciation or thoughtfulness?  Was it easy to find things to be grateful for?  Did it get easier to find things to be grateful for?  Did you see a change in your Happiness level through the Happiness Survey?

Meditation – I just don’t GET it!

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A woman from my old air hostessing life said to me – “I just don’t GET meditation.”   It just made no sense to her at all.  On reflection, I guess she meant she couldn’t understand why you would want to stop thinking.  Perhaps for her, thinking is what keeps everything in order, under control, organized, time efficient.  She may have wondered why you would want to turn that off.

She didn’t realize that something like 98% of all thought is repetitive!  That is, all that history, shopping lists, to do lists, and opinions going over and over again in your head. Not only that, many of our thoughts can be negative, unhelpful and self critical. As well as that, our thoughts are what create worry, anxiety and stress in our body.
So. Spending some time without all that going on, can only be good for us.


The mind is a great tool for helping with the practical aspects of life, but does become a little boring if you actually listen to it droning on!  Or can seem like the nastiest bully in school when it gets going about all your faults.  And can spin you into a panic attack as quick as a wink.

 

This hostess may have felt that the idea of having any sort of control over her thoughts was just so impossible that meditation made no sense.  That the frantic buzzing noise of her thoughts had a ‘mind of their own’.  And sometimes it does seem almost impossible to slow down, or control your thinking.  But it can be done!

 

That is where the bite sized  3 minute meditation comes in!  It is quick and easy, giving you a small taste of the quiet, and calm mind.

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Meditation and Happiness!

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I am hoping you will check out this meditation, because it is so easy and effective.

An introduction to the Chakra Meditation.  Get ready for color, energy, strength and happiness!

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In this video I introduce you to the idea of a meditation that YOU can actually do.  It is easy, full of color and energy, and can help you create happiness in your life.

Where and how to meditate, a Demo!

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During this video I show you where, and how to meditate – the practical guide.  Take a look, then create your own practice where and how you want.  It is very personal!

All about the wonderful chakra system!

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In this video I show you the chakra system, the colors, the life areas each effects, and how to clear and energise them.

Here is the chakra worksheet to help you learn the chakras, and what they are for.

And you can find out more about my Visual Meditation DVD here, if it is all getting a bit hard!

Meditation: Here is the symbol you will see at the close of most posts, to let you know which chakras to focus extra attention and power to support the work we are doing in that post. I will give you a guide on how best to use your meditation as we go along.

 

Exercise: Try the chakra meditation for 2 weeks.  It is only 15 minutes or so a day, and you may be so surprised at how easy it is, and how much  life suddenly starts to go more smoothly.  Try to notice the effects of your meditation, and maybe do the Happiness Survey afterward to see how your happiness levels are going.