{"id":522,"date":"2013-02-21T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redshoezone.ca\/?p=522"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:33:49","slug":"what-makes-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohmywordjournal.com\/redshoezone\/what-makes-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"what makes you happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you did something just because it made <i>you<\/i> happy?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;&#8230;anything coming to mind? Let me guess&#8230;.You spend a lot of time coming up with ways to make others happy.<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230; what makes <i>you<\/i> happy? Wait&#8230;.you can\u2019t say &#8230;.seeing your family happy (that&#8217;s a given). What makes <i>you<\/i> happy? Hard to answer isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Holden author of <i>Happiness Now<\/i> once said that he&#8217;d never met anyone who pursued too much happiness or\u00a0suffered from being too kind to themselves. <i>Hmmmm<\/i>&#8230;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&#8217;re waiting\u00a0for permission?\u00a0One thing <em>is<\/em> certain, as mothers our selfless sides are way out of balance. We&#8217;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<p>Nudge.<\/p>\n<p>This will make it easier&#8230;..One of the benefits\u00a0of happiness is that it allows us \u00a0to be of extraordinary service to others. Bingo&#8230;full circle!<\/p>\n<p>Robert Holden also says that happiness is about being willing to be innocent again.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like FUN!<\/p>\n<p>To fearlessly (re)discover ourselves we have to get back to our natural essence that made its appearance when we were little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PN-MjUC4f9k\">Happiness is&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>reACTION [to change in the response to stimulus]: Day 14 \u2013 Happiness is&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first step in <i>being<\/i> happy is knowing what makes us happy.<\/p>\n<p>A great place to start is a 2 minute meditation from Christine Northrup author of Women&#8217;s Bodies, Women&#8217;s Wisdom and Mother Daughter Wisdom, it opens the heart and just &#8216;feels&#8217; happy. Find a quiet place to sit. Close your eyes. Take long slow breaths, smile into your heart for 2 minutes. That&#8217;s all there is to it. I&#8217;ve never been able to sit still mind and body\u00a0long enough to meditate but this feels\u00a0GREAT! I&#8217;ve heard meditation described as &#8216;the practice of keeping the mind in the same place as the body&#8217;.\u00a0 There might be something to this.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8212;IMAGINE a time in your life when you were happiest\u2026..What were you doing?<\/p>\n<p>When were you most\u00a0excited?<\/p>\n<p>What did you love to do as a kid?<\/p>\n<p>What brings a smile to your face when you think about it?<\/p>\n<p>What makes you go\u00a0<em>WOW?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are you doing when you lose track of time?<\/p>\n<p>What do you wish you could do?<\/p>\n<p>Happy people have more to give others. They have more energy and more life!<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you did something just because it made you happy? Hmmm&#8230;&#8230;anything coming to mind? 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