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When was the last time you did something just because it made you<\/i> happy?<\/p>\n

Hmmm……anything coming to mind? Let me guess….You spend a lot of time coming up with ways to make others happy.<\/p>\n

Ok… what makes you<\/i> happy? Wait….you can\u2019t say ….seeing your family happy (that’s a given). What makes you<\/i> happy? Hard to answer isn’t it.<\/p>\n

Robert Holden author of Happiness Now<\/i> once said that he’d never met anyone who pursued too much happiness or\u00a0suffered from being too kind to themselves. Hmmmm<\/i>…So what\u2019s up? Are we waiting for happiness to find us and land splat in our lap?\u00a0A sign or a green light?\u00a0\u00a0Or maybe we’re waiting\u00a0for permission?\u00a0One thing is<\/em> certain, as mothers our selfless sides are way out of balance. We’ve been in taking-care-of-others mode for so long that we need a little nudge to go happiness seeking for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Nudge.<\/p>\n

This will make it easier…..One of the benefits\u00a0of happiness is that it allows us \u00a0to be of extraordinary service to others. Bingo…full circle!<\/p>\n

Robert Holden also says that happiness is about being willing to be innocent again.<\/p>\n

That sounds like FUN!<\/p>\n

To fearlessly (re)discover ourselves we have to get back to our natural essence that made its appearance when we were little.<\/p>\n

Happiness is…<\/a><\/p>\n

reACTION [to change in the response to stimulus]: Day 14 \u2013 Happiness is…<\/b><\/p>\n

The first step in being<\/i> happy is knowing what makes us happy.<\/p>\n

A great place to start is a 2 minute meditation from Christine Northrup author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and Mother Daughter Wisdom, it opens the heart and just ‘feels’ happy. Find a quiet place to sit. Close your eyes. Take long slow breaths, smile into your heart for 2 minutes. That’s all there is to it. I’ve never been able to sit still mind and body\u00a0long enough to meditate but this feels\u00a0GREAT! I’ve heard meditation described as ‘the practice of keeping the mind in the same place as the body’.\u00a0 There might be something to this.<\/p>\n

Now—IMAGINE a time in your life when you were happiest\u2026..What were you doing?<\/p>\n

When were you most\u00a0excited?<\/p>\n

What did you love to do as a kid?<\/p>\n

What brings a smile to your face when you think about it?<\/p>\n

What makes you go\u00a0WOW?<\/em><\/p>\n

What are you doing when you lose track of time?<\/p>\n

What do you wish you could do?<\/p>\n

Happy people have more to give others. They have more energy and more life!<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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