The reason why many people are not so happy with their lives is that they are not yet living the good life that they wish to live. Most people miss out on the reason why they are living in this world. There is just too much focus on minor things that people think should be on top of the list. Sometimes, we dwell so much on something that should be left alone. We spend too much time on something that is not worth our time.

Being happy in this world has become a harder feat for many people. There are financial difficulties to deal with, bills to pay, and so much more. We end up thinking about the problems before going to sleep so we sleep with these problems inside our heads. In the morning, instead of feeling fresh, we do not feel it because of the problems from the night before.

In order to be happy in this life, there are some simple things that you can do. If you want to be happy, you should really focus on things that will make you happy such as positive things. To be happy, you have to change your state of mind. Only you can have control over your thoughts. You can direct what you want to think in order to be happy. By simple changing your outlook and thinking in life, you are already on your way to being happy for a long time.

Staying relax and being happy is a personal choice that you alone can make. We hear the song Don’t Worry Be Happy which teaches us a few things about being positive and happy. The melody of the song alone is already light. Other light music can help us feel relaxed and happy. Sometimes, listening to music is a good way to start and end your day. You will be amazed at how much magic music has on you.

Life is full of surprises and changes. The only thing that is constant in this world is change. We have to learn how to go along with it. Stick with the good things that happen. If there are things that do not go accordingly, that is alright. We can learn from it and move on. Some people have a hard time moving on and for this reason, they are sad and depressed.

No man is an island. We are social being that is why we can always find comfort from our friends and family members. They are always more than willing to help us out. Friends and families give us a sense of belongingness and thus, we feel happy.

There are many ways that we can be happy in life. However, always remember that it will always be your own choice if you want to be happy or not. Some people prefer to be happy while some choose to sulk at every little thing. Whatever you choose, being happy will always make you feel good and light inside. It can also make you feel and look younger.

By Dr Joshua David Stone and Gloria Excelsias

It is not possible to be right with another person or the world without first learning to be right with self. Getting right with self begins with having self-love. Self-love begins with a proper philosophy and state of mind. For your enjoyment, here are seven affirmations you can say to yourself to help boost your self-love and self-worth.

1. I choose to love me as God loves me – unconditionally.
2. I now understand that I am here to learn lessons and grow in life, but if I make mistakes I am still totally lovable and unchangeably worthy.
3. I hereby choose the attitude of being very firm with myself and unconditionally loving.
4. I am the master of my life and I choose to be my own best friend instead of my own worst enemy.
5. I now choose to truly understand that I want to be perfect, with the understanding that mistakes are positive, and part and parcel of the growing process.
6. I now realize on the level of my true identity that I am the “I,” the chooser, the person, the Spiritual Being, the Soul. I am a perfect equal with every other person in the world.
7. I now choose to awaken and recognize that it was only the faulty thinking of my ego that has caused me not to love myself.

The Integrated Ascended Master realizes that the most important relationship in his life is his relationship to himself, because if he is right with himself, he will be right with everyone else in the world … however, if he is not right with himself, he will not be right with anyone else in the world either because he will be projecting his wrong relationship to self onto the world and everyone! So if you want to be an Integrated Ascended Master, get right with yourself!

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Dr Joshua David Stone was one of the most influential Spiritual teachers, leaders and forerunners of our time. He had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California, USA.
He served as Official Spokesperson for the Planetary Ascension Movement and made his mark in the Consciousness Community as a prolific writer, authoring the 15-volume Easy to Read Encyclopedia of the Spiritual Path, published in several languages, as well as eight major Ascended Master Training Courses and several comprehensive Training Programs ranging from channeling, the psychology of astrology, the Book of Life of God, to his legendary 2,000 page Counseling Manual, and much, much more.
Today, the I AM University is the one and only Integrated Ascended Master Training Facility in this world. It stands firmly on the foundation of a comprehensive and ever-expanding curriculum which Dr Stone dedicated his life creating.
In 2005, Dr Joshua David Stone passed over to the Spirit world where he continues to Spiritually support the expansion of the I AM University the continuation of which he entrusted into the hands of Gloria Excelsias, his long-term personal assistant and protégé.
Dr Stone is one of the most widely read authors in the New Age Movement and known as the world’s most trusted source for integrated Spiritual development. http://www.iamuniversity.org

Gloria Excelsias is the President of the I AM University, an educational institution with focus on Spiritual and psychological development that was founded by the late Dr Joshua David Stone in 2004 and handed over to her care and leadership in 2005, at Dr Stone’s passing. As Dr Stone’s personal assistant, close friend and protégé, she received ongoing personal training in applied transpersonal psychology and integrated ascension which would prepare her consciousness for her later service work as the University’s President. Having moved the I AM University from California to Salzburg, Austria, her native country, she is now passionately dedicated to running and evolving the I AM University as an inspired writer and speaker, placing thematic priority on Spiritual psychology, the re-integration and updating of ancient occult teachings and the overall unfoldment of human consciousness.

Some of her service projects include:

Planetary World Service: www.PlanetaryWorldService.org

I AM Tunes – Spiritual Audio Download Library: www.IAM-Tunes.org

I AM YOU Foundation – Charity Project: www.IAMYou-Foundation.org

Ascension for Beginners – 365 free articles, 25 mini-courses and 25 meditations for newcomers on the Spiritual path: www.AscensionForBeginners.org

By Yamini Bhatt, Founder, Rhiddam Online Spiritual Growth Center

We are all looking to grow through joy, peace and love and release struggle and pain. We are all looking to live a more joyful and fulfilling life. Yet over time, many of us habitually over identify with negative and limiting thought patterns. This programming can cause inner confusion and chaos. We may forget in this loop of negative programming that we are infinite beings and forever connected to a super-conscious, extremely intelligent, and all powerful source of love, creativity and abundance.

Understanding Affirmations

The good news is that all this negative and limited programming can be released with affirmations. But you must first be willing to do some inner work with daily affirmations. Affirmations are energetically born and developed over time inside of us. I have found that working with daily affirmation programs such as Energetic Reprogramming can be very empowering in reprogramming yourself and ushering in profound changes in your thinking, thus your life.

“Affirmations become living energy when practiced with conviction and feeling, with a sense of your connection to your innermost self. Each affirmation carries within it the seed of a completely new consciousness. Even saying it one time brings to you a seed of new consciousness. “~ Orin

When using affirmations know that…

• You have power to make these positive, affirmative statements become your reality.
• The quality, vibration and the overall energy of the words and feelings in your affirmations have a powerful effect on its manifestation in your life.
• The Universe responds to you by generating circumstances and experiences that match the quality and vibration (energy) of the words in your affirmation.
• Repeating them mindlessly over and over will not work as effectively as really feeling the statement.
• Using affirmations in the morning is a powerful way to determine the energy of your day. Instead of starting your day by jumping out of bed, rushing into the shower, and hustling out the door, allow 10-15 minutes for joy-filled and life-enhancing statements of intention.

Supercharging Affirmations

Riddham offers a simple monthly affirmation program called Energetic Reprogramming that can help you transform your limited thinking at a deep cellular level. It can assist you in commanding your Good with the energy that is YOU! Check it out and consider whether the program is right for you.

Until then consider these methods for energizing your affirmations so they manifest faster:

• Say your affirmation out loud with confidence while looking in the mirror. Repeat a few times. Feel as if you are announcing it to the entire universe.
• Really FEEL the words in your affirmation each time you say it. Let the words of your affirmation vibrate deeply within you. Feel a sense of aliveness as you repeat them.
• Randomly repeat the affirmation throughout the day with feeling. Repeat while walking, cooking, showering, and driving as this will imprint your subconscious mind at many different levels.
• Read the affirmation silently and then close your eyes and breathe in the energy /essence of the affirmation. Aligning with your breath while mentally repeating the affirmation will increase the speed of integration at mind, body and spirit level.
• Write your affirmation with red ink at least three times every day. Writing the affirmation will program your affirmation in a deep cellular level. Red ink invokes the importance and urgency of its manifestation to the Universe.

Yamini Bhatt is on a mission to effectively shift the consciousness of our world. As a profoundly successful, internationally recognized, transformational teacher and healer, Yamini integrates several powerful, carefully selected and individually tailored healing modalities for both groups and individuals. Yamini founded Riddham (defined as Opulence) Online Spiritual Center to serve those who seek to overcome their fears and limitations and releasing struggles and to find the truths from within for a profound shift in consciousness. Yamini is an Ordained Minister, Certified in Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT), a Spiritual Restructuring Teacher, Yoga and Meditation teacher and a Certified Prosperity Guide. She has served on the Board of Directors and as President for the Spiritual Response Association (SRA).

It is a wonderful thing to stand where you are – and to know that you are either allowing joy into your life or that you are feeling the desire for something more deeply fulfilling. Either one is a sign that your inner guidance is working to show you the way to go.

The guidance of intuition starts out very subtly – offering us opportunities to make healthy shifts along the way. Sometimes we rationalize with ourselves to go one way or another but when we go the wrong way, negative key indicators become increasingly more apparent.

For example, my eyelid started twitching last month; a physical manifestation that has served as a warning system for me over the years. I have come to understand this as an indication that I have started to get off track and need to realign with my Source.

It is so interesting to know that we can choose where to focus our energy. We can either focus our energy on the absence of what we want, or we can open our energy to the possibility of moving towards what we want. The core issue is the same, but the direction of our energetic focus makes all the difference. When we ignore intuitive messages from within and focus our energy on the absence of what we want, our inner warning system begins to activate and messages from it begin to manifest physically. The symptoms might be minor at first but if you refuse to listen, they will likely become increasingly worse until you have no choice but to listen and effect change in your life.

How do you recognize the warning signs when you are aligning with the absence of what you want?

Our bodies are giving us indications all the time and many times our first opportunity to recognize those indications is through our emotions.

Sometimes we are inspired to do more and more but when we feel a non-relenting pressure to do more we may be pushing ourselves beyond our own boundaries. Doing this creates disruption in our rejuvenating life flow and it creates a depletion that jeopardizes our ability to be wholly present for others or ourselves.

I had a friend that enjoyed all of her various work and volunteer activities so much that she willingly committed to working even beyond the waking hours she had in her day. She was married, her children were grown, and she loved being active and helping others. Saying no did not come easily. The problem, however, was that she was so focused on getting things done that she ceased to listen to her inner guidance. She was oblivious to the initial key indicators that she was heading in the wrong direction.

Visiting with her became nearly impossible because she was simply too busy. Our conversations revolved around her burdens. She always seemed to be putting out fires and dealing with drama related to this board or that. After years of observing this, I recognized it as one manifestation among others of a larger life pattern that she had come to embody.

She was not only carrying burdens and putting out fires in her work life. She had taken the weight of those burdens into her physical body as well and developed chronic back problems. It seemed that at least once a year she would finally stop and rest… only because she had become bedridden with pain. No matter how much she wanted to get up, she just couldn’t. As she pushed on, taking on more and more responsibility, she developed Fibromyalgia, a very painful disorder which created yet another level of forced self-care in her very busy world.

Forced self-care… what an oxymoron! After all, how do we become so disconnected that we have subconsciously created FORCED self-care in our lives through illness or pain? You would be surprised by how many people actually push it that far.

It is my wish to stay tuned in to my intuition and guidance so that I can expand my creativity, inspiration and the joy filled flow in my life so I do not have to contend with “forced self-care”.

I noticed the eye twitching last month and I knew I had to make a shift…

What are your personal key indicators that let you know when your life is out of balance or that you have taken on too much? Are you experiencing any of them now? Search within, listen, and take heart.

We can all get caught up in the need to DO, DO, DO. If you feel you are doing too much, consider developing a healthy and loving relationship with DON’T. Not doing has its own power and grace. Not doing can provide a fertile space for rejuvenation so that which we truly seek… that which we truly desire to manifest on the deepest levels of our being… can enter more fully into our lives.

Barbara Alexander is President and Founder of Epona Ridge – a magical place where women have come for years to gain insight about their inner lives and seek a greater awareness of their hearts’ true calling. Barbara serves as their mentor and guide as her retreat participants go through their individual journeys towards true happiness, joy and inner peace.

Barbara has worked with over a thousand people in the Epona Ridge Retreat programs, teaching transformational techniques that shift core energy awareness and life experience.
After many years of a successful career as a business executive, Barbara has dedicated her personal and professional life to mentoring women and men, in building their life as well as their business with a stronger foundation for wellbeing and personal fulfillment.