Posts Tagged ‘Creating Happiness’
Monday, May 31st, 2010
“Compassion is not codependency. It does not arise from an avoidance of one’s own pain. Codependency arises from a perceived need for love and approval from outside oneself. Compassion does not arise from any such deficiency. Codependency arises from one’s own unacknowledged suffering and unhealed wounds. Compassion arises from our willingness to embrace all our life experiences-both pleasant and unpleasant.”
“We cultivate compassion for others as we cultivate compassion for ourselves. We cultivate compassion for ourselves when we treat ourselves as friends and consider ourselves with the same kindness that we desire for others. We cultivate compassion for ourselves as we begin to acknowledge our own pain rather than deny it or discount it. To truly love others, we must first love ourselves. To develop compassion for others, we must first develop compassion for ourselves.”
“Love is a divine idea, has infinite possibilities for expression. Compassion is a quality of love. It can be expressed in infinite ways. Compassion can be expressed as a feeling, such as a deep sense of warmth and caring. Nevertheless, true compassion is more that just feeling or intention. True compassion is action. True compassion is kindness, service, and commitment to the well-being of others.”
Robert Brumet, The Quest For Wholeness, Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World, pages 218 & 219.
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Photo taken at Yuko-En by Robin Hamon
“You can be sure that God did not create relationship so that we would betray ourselves. Indeed, it is quite the opposite. The purpose of relationship is to insure that we learn to be faithful to ourselves. One of the paradoxes of relationship as a spiritual path is that we give our power away to others in order to learn to honor ourselves more completely. We become co-dependent with others in order to learn how to have better boundaries. We blame others so that we can learn to be gentle with oursleves and forgive our own mistakes.”
“It is all a set-up. We look for love and happiness through other people only to learn that we can find love and happiness only in our own hearts and minds. That is the recognition in which the ‘We’ is born.”
Paul Ferrini, Creating A Spiritual Relationship, A Guide To Growth And Happiness For Couples On The Path, page 101
Tags: Appreciate Your Partner, Creating Happiness, Find Love, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Improve Relationships, Love Yourself, Positive Mental Attitude, Regain Self-Control, Self-Esteem, Self-Nurture, Wellness
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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Taken at Yuko-En, The Kentucky - Japan Friendship Garden.
“If you’ve been practicing thought monitoring, erasing your core beliefs and traumas, and making perceptual shifts in order to remove barriers to love that interfere with your relationships, then you have begun to unblock your flow of love. As I’m sure you see by now, this work you’ve been doing not only lifts the stress and conflicts out of your relationship, it also-and necessarily-begins to heal the self.” page 237
“When we begin to see how the promises of the ego are untrustworthy and unworkable, and that they actually cause many of our problems, we begin to break out of its illusion and enter into the realm of the True Self.” page 237
“And once you live in this place, you are living in a spiritual way, and your relationships are increasingly transformed from ego–based to spiritual.” page 238
Henry Grayson, PH.D., Mindful Loving, Ten Practices for creating Deeper Connections.
Tags: Appreciate Your Partner, Creating Happiness, Find Love, Freedom From Self-Imposed Limitations, Hypnosis, Improve Relationships, Improve Self-Esteem and Motivation, Love Yourself, Positive Mental Attitude, Self-Hypnosis, Self-Nurture, Stress Reduction
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
“By staying emotionally attached, especially if you still feel longing, need, or urgency, you’re actually broadcasting a message of unavailability to the world. Your obsessed frequency is saying that you’re already in a relationship. Even if that relationship is only in your imagination, you’re putting up an energetic wall to prevent any future loves from entering the picture.” page 214
“The law of Paradoxical Intent dictates that the sooner you can be at peace with being alone, the sooner you’ll project the kind of energy that magnetizes more peace and happiness-and more love-into your life. The paradox comes when you use your fear of being alone as your motivation for pursuing relationships. If you feel you can’t be happy while alone, it practically ensures that you will stay both unhappy and alone.” page 216
“If you have been a happiness chaser throughout your life, you need to become a happiness creator. You need to provide for yourself that which you are looking for from others. Ask yourself what it is that makes you happy, and then take responsibility for creating that in your life. If it’s encouragement, give encouragement to yourself. If you need more fun, find ways to bring more fun into your life. Ultimately you need to establish two things: joy-seeking attitude and an appreciation consciousness.” page 219
Sandra Anne Taylor, Secrets Of Attraction, The Universal Laws Of Love, Sex, And Romance.
Tags: Balance, Creating Happiness, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Inspiration, Promote Wellness, Regain Self-Control, Self-Hypnosis, Wellness
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
“Your belief in your own value must be so strong that it translates into these conclusions: “I’m capable of loving and being loved. I deserve to be loved just as I am.” Sandra Anne Taylor
“Learn to stand alone, secure in your own virtues and self-worth.” Paramahansa Yogananda
“To create a thriving and happy single life, you must first be comfortable with your own company. You need to see your time spent alone as time spent in good society. Look forward to your time together with yourself. If you don’t enjoy your own company, nobody else will. Your time alone is one of your greatest resources. Use it creatively. Enjoy it. Make plans with yourself for yourself. Implement a new lifestyle of rejuvenation and self-care.” Sandra Anne Taylor
The above quotes are from the book, Secrets Of Attraction, The Universal Laws Of Love, Sex, And Romance, by Sandra Anne Taylor.
Tags: Creating Happiness, Find Love, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Improve Relationships, Improve Self-Esteem and Motivation, Regain Self-Control, Self-Hypnosis
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Photo taken by Nicole Wolcott
“Through our beloved we are once again brought face to face with what is unresolved in us. We meet again out father’s absence or our brother’s envy, our mother’s cruelty or our sister’s competition. We see our own childhood mirrored in every direction. Through love we are invited to reenter them again but differently, to reexperience and grieve the losses of the past, and thus redeem them.” -Daphne Rose Kingma
“The truth is that we have all come from love, but our relationships have often been a detour from love… Love is the river, each human being a droplet of water, and together, in spite of our fears and resistance, we are returning to love, melting and flowing toward home. We’re all looking for more love. It’s that simple. In the end, nothing else really matters to us. In the beginning and in the middle, we’re connected with the forms of our relationships, what they look like, what our parents think of them, how they stack up in the eyes of the world, and whether we’re getting our share of the goodies: sexually, emotionally, and financially.”
“But in the end, we won’t care about the forms. The forms will be as multitudinous as the stars and all that will matter is the love that was in them. No one can escape the divine upheaval of love. I haven’t; you won’t; our neighbors and strangers and family won’t either. Love is coming to find us. All of us. Because love is our essence. Love is who we are.”~ Daphne Rose Kingma, “The Future of Love” ~
Tags: Appreciate Your Partner, Break Undesirable Habits, Create New Desirable Habits, Creating Happiness, Hypnotherapy, Improve Relationships
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, suffering follows him as a wheel follows the hoof of a beast that draws a cart.” Dhammapada
“Thinking, acting, and speaking in a more positive manner affects the conscious mind by making proper changes to the thought process. This influences the brain on a physical level, allowing it to function more effectively with heightened brain activity. Intuition, creativity, and clarity become stronger. Greater amounts of endorphins, including serotonin, are released by the brain and the brain stem into the blood stream. This will give you a sense of aliveness and contentment. In other words, positive thoughts and words create positive feelings within.” Douglas De Long, Ancient Healing Techniques, page 69 & 70.
“No matter how spiritual you are, there will be times when you are not feeling love. At such times, ask yourself the question “How can I feel love right now?” What you realize as you explore this question is that the only way you can “feel” love is to “think” a loving thought. Loving thoughts lead to the emotional state of feeling love. And out of this positive emotional state actions arise which connect you to others.” Paul Ferrini, Reflections Of The Christ Mind, Present Day Teachings Of Jesus, page 191
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Photo taken by Nicole Wolcott
“The spiritual relationship is a common state of mind, where both give errors gladly to correction, that both may happily be healed as one.’ “ A Course In Miracles
“Most of our energy goes into upholding our universe. If we were capable of losing some of our importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusion of grandeur, and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe. Carlos Castaneda
“One hallmark of wholeness is the ability to love yourself. In the realm of love, a paradox exists: you can effectively love others only when you can love yourself. If you cannot love yourself, you will try to fill the void of your own lack of self-love with the love of others. You will tend to demand from others, what you cannot give yourself. This demand places an unfair burden on those around you. It makes you a bottomless pit; no matter how much love they give, it is never enough.” The same problem exists if you try to give love to other people who do not love themselves. You will turn yourself inside out loving them, but it will not help. We all must learn to give ourselves the love we want. Then other people can love us and it will feel satisfying because it is not filling a void. It becomes love dancing with itself.” Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., & Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., Conscious Loving, page 90 & 91.
“Yet we all know how much our minds are filled with judging thoughts, fear thoughts, and other thoughts that not only disturb our inner peace, but also seriously undermine loving relationships. Therefore we need a tool to help us be more effective in our thought monitoring and meditation is such a tool, for it is essentially a practice session on being an objective witness to our thoughts and then consciously returning our minds to focus on a place of our choosing, such as mantra or breath.” Henry Grayson, Ph.D., Mindful Loving, page 244.
Tags: Appreciate Your Partner, Creating Happiness, Find Love, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Improve Relationships, Improve Self-Esteem and Motivation, Meditation, Positive Change, Regain Self-Control, Self-Help Techniques, Stress Reduction
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
“Who, being loved, is poor?” Oscar Wilde
“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” Henry David Thoreu
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss
“Love is a friendship set to music.” Joseph Cossman
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: Appreciate Your Partner, Confidence, Creating Happiness, Find Love, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Reach Your Goals
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Photo taken by Jonathan Franchell of Nicole Wolcott dancing on rooftop.
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” Les Brown
“In dreams begins responsibility.” William Butler Yeats
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, they soon become inevitable.” Christopher Reeve
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.” Jesse Owen
“Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung
Tags: Confidence, Create New Desirable Habits, Creating Happiness, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Improve Athletic Performance, Improve Creative Performance, Improve Learning Experiences, Improve Relationships, Improve Self-Esteem and Motivation
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