BLESSINGS AND A HAPPY 2012 TO YOU & ALL OF CREATION

MAY WE RECOGNIZE OUR ONENESS

SEE THROUGH THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION

CELEBRATE OUR UNITY

REJOICE

WE ARE ONE BEING

 ALL ME

ME REACHING FOR 100% RESPONSIBLITY

WHAT DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU READ THE TITLE  “2012 HAPPY SOLUTIONS…..NOT RESOLUTIONS!”? Does it bring a sense of relief…. aahhh happy solutions rather than resolutions; more attempts at control and change that most often lead to failure and discouragement? Soothing solutions rather than unmanageable resolutions.

These title words were part of a conversation playing in my head while I was enjoying a very late breakfast on the verandah overlooking a typical Australian bush reserve; tranquil yet life-full. 

‘HAPPY SOLUTIONS NOT HARSH RESOLUTIONS ENCOURAGING YET MORE DISCIPLINE’.

I became enthused by such inner counsel, so I very quickly set up my computer and began recording what I knew was sweet information that would assist me with all I planned to accomplish this year.

HERE ARE THE WORDS I WROTE and remember you are listening in. This sweet information does hold intent, so it may not suit you, your life style or spiritual convictions. Keep what feels right for you and disregard what is not for you. I am just happy to share the generous spirit that speaks to me from within. Of course it all me; the sweet information and the generous spirit, as indeed are you. All part of Lifes’ mystery and magic!

HAPPY SOLUTIONS NOT RESOLUTIONS for 2012. That conversation went something like this:-

♥ BEGIN WITH SPIRIT – Are you listening to a ‘higher’ more balanced voice within or listening to inner whining. Develop a relationship with that part of you that seeks the highest good for all, including yourself. Your Spiritual self then becomes your best friend. And loneliness becomes a thing of the past.

♥ CHECK YOUR BRAIN – how is the health of your brain? Do you feed it good brain nutrition – brain food? What thoughts, images, movies do you input which become part of what your mind plays back to you? There is so much scientific information available about the health of the brain. This puts you in the driving seat when it comes to your brain’s chemistry.

♥ TAKE YOUR HEART TEMPERATURE – Is peace joy and love oozing from your heart into every corner of your being and out into the Universe? Do you store unpleasant experiences and let them fester into resentment, anger and even hatred and violence. Only you can choose the state of your heart!

♥ MEET WITH YOUR BODY – Listen!  What is it trying to tell you? ‘Love me!‘  The body loves to experience joy and be gently mastered by a human being that is on purpose. Not just busy or financially successful, but one that is congruent within and without; balance in life where no one area dominates another. The body of such a being can entrain to such a state and return to its first nature.

♥ RELEASE CREATIVITY – Try new ways of releasing your creative potential. Take an art class or just start drawing. You’d be surprised by what you are good at. And be kind but disobedient when you hear yourself say ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘ I wouldn’t be any good at that’. Say ‘YES’ more often!

♥ STALK YOUR JOY – Discover what makes you joyful and stalk it as if you where hypnotized. This is a 24/7 job which will reward you not only with ‘happy’ brain chemistry, but also with friends who enjoy your joyfulness! As you become good at stalking your joy, the whole world benefits. You will be creating a more joy-filled planet. No need to find a greater purpose!

♥ CIRCLE YOUR FRIENDS – Encourage unity among your circle of friends by encouraging activities, spiritual social and adventurous, that create opportunities for oneness and celebration. Group hugs!

♥ LEAD WITHOUT POWER – Become your ‘community’ leader, sharing with others what you have already put into practise. Lead without the use of power, coercion or even a hint of manipulation. Use stillness instead of force. Your own harmony and balance is magnet enough. Use enthusiasm and the purity of your joy. In other words, lead by example but be generous with your presence by being available!

♥ LAUGH – AND THEN LAUGH AND THEN LAUGH SOME MORE! Join a laughing group or start a laughing group in your area. Watch funny clips and movies. Tape yourself and someone else laughing your heads off and then play it back often. Keep your laughter practise up until you come easily to laughter and you become contagious!

I am wowed by the clarity and focus of these 2012 happy solutions, not resolutions. There is much here for me to incorporate into my daily life. And this post serves as a diary entry which I can view on the eve of 2013. My next post is just that. It is about looking back over this last year from the vantage point of a letter I wrote to myself early in 2011. Much has changed for my good. I say thank you.

I love you and wish you the most amazing 2012 ♥

In the last few days I have been reading over my past posts. I can see how just the living of the life that I am given, not the one I may want, moves me constantly into taking another step into the unknown. Then that unknown becomes familiar and it is not long before the push to move yet again into the unknown, arises. This is how the more of me – who I have always been yet has remained hidden – is revealed. Wondrous!

Looking back I can see how I have arrived at a life much different to the one I was living last year. That is the result of letting go and letting God. Letting the unknown have the reigns instead of my past habits leading me into another mess. There is much to integrate and much to write about. Plenty to keep me busy in 2012. And I eagerly anticipate the many new experiences that will show up as opportunities to expand and to enjoy.

Do you keep a journal or diary? Reading back can you see the courageous steps you have taken to clear a new path for your life? Can you see what you have let go and what you have allowed to enter that space? Please share your observations in the comments below. We can start a conversation.

So before we throw ourselves into 2012, please enjoy these two poems I re-discovered on the pages of my Christmas posts 2010. Food for thought ♥

The poems are below and these are the links to the 2010 posts HAPPINESS IS…LOVING CHRISTMAS and HAPPINESS IS… LOVING CHRISTMAS (part2)

LOVE AND YOU

Its always about Love

Nothing outside of Love

In Love’s embrace, all becomes LOve

Its always about Heart

Nothing but Heart

In the Hearts vibration, all becomes LOve

Its always about You

Nothing but You

Within Your realm, all becomes You

There is ‘no out there, out there’ no place to hide

So take your Sweetness in both  hands

And spread it far and wide

Take your life with a firm grip

Let it go and enjoy the ride

Its your life, for your enjoyment

Break out your joy – it’s locked up inside

Krysia

 

 

CHRISTMAS GENEROSITY

The giver gives and the giving gives back

The receiver receives and in the receiving also gives back

In the gracious act of giving the circle opens

With the graciousness of receiving the circle is completed

The receiver becomes the giver

The giver becomes the receiver

No difference between them – only Oneness

The circle of Life circling constantly toward Oneness

A spiral at once moving towards nothing and everything

No need to give. No need to receive.

But in life’s play, these are wondrous opportunities

Miraculous opportunities to watch the nothing become something

And then the something evaporate leaving nothing but LOve

Nothing but Love Stillness and Oneness

Krysia

1. Believe – No one has gone anywhere. If you are remembering them, then they live on in you. Whether they have passed on or are still living , they are with you. The story of ‘the two of you’ hasn’t ended. It is eternal.

2. Acknowledge – Speak to the memory that is replaying in your mind. “Thank you for being. I love you. I love you. I love you.” Chant until you feel soothed and free. This helps because you are not stifling the emotions. You are recognizing them and letting go by choosing the words “I love you”. Your request to feel better will be respected. Repeat this process over and over.

3. Know – You are not the only one suffering. Others around you are also dealing with a loss of some sort. Adult children miss their parents, no matter how old we are. Passed lovers come to mind, giving us an opportunity to let go, more and more deeply. Humanity grieves so much loss, so don’t feel alone.

4. Admire – Yourself. You are brave, strong and resilient. You have much to experience and will have much to pass on. What you overcome passes on to us all as a whole. You are amazing. Thank you. I love you.

5. Breathe – With the breath all things pass. This to will pass and you will be joyful again. Your courage to walk through life’s shadows will build an emotional muscle that will be felt by all around you. It will make you so attractive and most lovable.

6. Cry – Tears are healthy. They cleanse and bring soothing relief. Clarity is available to those who are not afraid to feel at great depths. Not wallowing but allowing the worlds pain to come through you and be acknowledged as worthy of acceptance.

7. Celebrate – Rejoice the chance of LOve happening. Whether for a short period or for most of your life, LOve came, stayed and left its mark on your heart and soul as only LOve can. You are a greater being for having known the LOve of another human……so rejoice.

AND LASTLY …if none of the above ease you, play loud music and sing out as loud as you can. Have a party for one. Dance a crazy dance until you fall to the ground full of gratitude for such a moment. Life is what arises from you when you honestly allow energy to move in whatever way it wants. Create a moment so that your memories of how things were can shift to reveal who you are and what you are capable of; transforming pain back to its origins – LOve.

Now go and play with Life ♥

And Love fills the air

Its the night before Christmas

Lights twinkle everywhere

And my heart is full

Of joy sweetness and light

Christmas really happens in my heart

aaahhh….. ‘Everything is alright”

It speaks of peace within my family

And blessed connections with friends

Of the precious laughter we share

And where I must make amends

About relationships that have gone wrong

Which need to be transmuted to love

That seems impossible ‘Tell me how?”

I need some help from above

It’s the night before Christmas

And I sit with this prayer in my heart

“I love you. Thank You.”

And the transmutation will start

Its the night before Christmas

As I say my special healing prayer

I now feel free from my burden

Making amends has cleared the air

So as Christmas Day comes much closer

Remember lost friendships that still live in your heart

Say a prayer and let the burden go to the LOve

For in reality – you can never be apart

ALL IS ONE

ps….. Its not so much a happiness poem, as it is a little tale that points to a way to be with all of the emotions that arise at Christmas. The present moment joyfulness and the memories that play grief over lost friends and family members through arguments and even family feuds. What seems an irreparable rift, can be first mended in your heart and then may come the miracle. So please enjoy this happiness poem and remember to let go and let God do the rest.

Wishing you peace that is beyond understanding

Krysia

♥ THIS CHRISTMAS ♥

TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF

NO ONE ELSE CAN DO IT FOR YOU

THEY MAY TRY

IT WILL BECOME A BURDEN

NOW TWO ARE BURDENED

SET YOURSELF FREE

SET OTHERS FREE – FREE OF YOU

YOU TAKING  CARE OF YOU 24/7

A TRUE CHRISTMAS GIFT

I AM SENDING YOU ALL AS MUCH LOVE AS I CAN MUSTER. Seeing there is no out-there-out-there, then all the LOve in the world is in me. And seeing you are also in me, then you already have access to all the love in existence..

TO BE TRULY HAPPY YOU MUST START WITH YOU. There is no happiness out there. If you are not happy and you observe happiness out there in the world, then that perceived happiness is speaking to you. It is trying to tell you about happiness, yet you are not feeling it. And that’s because of where you are anchored within yourself…….. read that sentence again if it rang loud bells in your head!!!

That last statement ‘that’s because of where you are anchored within yourself’ is like a light being turned on for someone who is struggling with a lack of happiness. Maybe not for you but is was for me. And it made all the difference for me in my journey towards 100% happiness.

HERE ARE SOME POINTERS ON “HOW TO BE HAPPY?”

If you are serious about leaving your misery behind, this is where you can start. Some of the work has already been done for you by those who have gone before you. Every happy person contributes to the happiness of the whole. You are being asked to be just such a person.

• Discover who it is you are listening to in your head. Who prompts you? Who is cynical? Who is sarcastic? Who encourages you to do nothing while all around you lies in disarray?
• Decide where in your head you want to be anchored. To the part of the brain that listens to heart intelligence or to the part that listens and reacts to the garbage; you anchored to all the disturbing insistent voices in your head.
• Give up your likes and dislikes. LOVE ALL.  They are only opinions that not only separate you from others, but also start a war in your own head. A battle, a competition for who has the strongest reason to like or dislike. Give them up because no one else values your likes and dislikes. THEY VALUE YOU.
• Do everything in your power to find out WHO ARE YOU? and WHY ARE YOU HERE?  If you are unhappy, then this is the most worthwhile endeavour you will undertake. The answers are within you, but a vigorous search in the world, following inner intuition, will uncover such vital information.

Give the world and all of its 7 billion inhabitants the best gift they could ever receive – YOU! Happy and At Peace.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Krysia

TO READ MORE ABOUT THE SUGGESTIONS IN THIS POST and the way that I view life, please read all of my posts here on ‘the happiness is….blog. They are full of hints and loving words to soothe the most disrupted heart ♥

And there is more on “HOW TO BE HAPPY?” on the just-being-built website i-happiness.com .

Please visit us there but be patient as it truly takes effort and dedication to build a worthwhile home for i-happiness.

 

I hope you enjoyed my posts at ‘The Happiness is….blog.com”

I am no longer writing posts for this blog. It is time to move on as I am now creating a website   i-happiness.com

More happiness will be sought and found as my sister and I go on our journey into this world called i-happiness.

Eventually I may blog in my name ‘Krysia” but that is a future project……one of many and still just in the dream stage.

Some posts on this blog have been moved  to that website.

Please go to http://www.i-happiness.com/how-to-find-true-happiness.html  to read about how to find true happiness.

Thanks for visiting

Krysia

IT WAS PROBABLY A CHAPTER FROM A YET UNWRITTEN BOOK, CHOOSING YOU AS THE WRITER.

FAR FETCHED BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE!

Just as most of us have a singing voice I feel we also have a hidden narrator – a teller of stories. Like singing, we just have to connect the dots. Start – allow – practice and repeat over and over. And just as each singing voice is unique, so will your writing be unique. You may have ‘found’ the story in the recesses of unconscious mind, but it will be told and translated by your own heart. You are one-of-a-kind and so are your yet undiscovered stories.

THIS IS WHAT I LOVE. This process that allows me to write about life in posts like this one, through poetry song and even fiction. Its all new in my life as I have spent most of my life without it. And ‘it’ has all come about since I accepted my inner self and allowed that inner self – innocence – to be me. I didn’t loose who I was. I revealed more of who I have always been.

HOW DOES INTUITIVE WRITING HAPPEN FOR ME? 

I ‘catch’ a word or concept and start to write. ‘Why now?’ when I haven’t written for a day, a week , even longer. I don’t know why now. I just know ‘now’ holds the opportunity and the story. The words/story/scenes come as if they where strangers, but they are not. I am always there. Me and my many selves there, observing and enjoying. Me there also in the characters. While the writing impresses itself upon me, it certainly contains the essence of me.

MY WRITING IS ALL ABOUT  what I do like and rarely about what I don’t like – what is not like me. That would be giving power to something I would diminish by loving it, not by writing about it. I write in a way that is characteristically me. If you find yourself liking my writing, you would probably like me as well. How I am in everyday life is revealed in my writing. And the fictional story I am writing, holds the essence of all that I hold as true. But that is just me. The ‘I’ of me seems to slip in wherever it can and I am happy with that.

HERE IS A LIST OF WHAT I AM WORKING ON ( playing with, enjoying) at present. All as a direct result of the way I focus on my inner life. Focusing within. Taking every aspect of my life within and then just listening. Being still of mind and listening and watching for the words pictures prompts and impressions. Then its up to me to do. To become active. If I loose focus I just do it again….magic! Moment by moment magic.

• 3  blog posts
• new website – I am working with our web specialist. I am attempting to have 25 pages ready in next 3weeks …no pressure
• preparing 3 Christmas songs that are already written, but need musical arrangement…help
• 3 new ideas for Christmas songs…..these are amazing. Hope they come together
•  365 original daily sayings. I am up to day 43 with 12 sayings in reserve. These come very easily
• Expanded original sayings project – only an idea so far
• A fiction novel. This is a long term project
• Trawling through 3 years of notes, discovering ‘stuff’ I can use for the new website
• Collecting all of my poems for an e-book
• And my e-book that is responsible for this whole journey has yet to be completed and formatted for the web.
• And much more which shouldn’t be publicly revealed yet!

I AM CAPTIVATED BY THE JOURNEY. The results are already enjoyed by participating in the journey. The groundwork for the future is always ‘Who are you being now?

Krysia….happy

THE CREATIVE PROCESS IS INDEED AMAZING.  Out of nowhere I was prompted to write a book, which I did and is not quite ready for publishing. Then I start to blog as a way of expressing and journaling my inner life. I have a Christmas project which I specifically asked  for and received. My sister and I are starting a website which will be a place were all this creativity can find a home. And now the original sayings project pops up out of the blue, carrying with it many add-on ideas. I ask, I let go and I receive…….indeed amazing !!!

YOU MAY ASK ‘Who did I ask?’ I asked ‘The One, The All’.  You may use the term God or Divinity. I do also, but ‘The One, The All’ seems to cover that which holds everything and yet is so close to me, this little individual. God is an Enigma. An unsolverable puzzle. The nearer I get, the more I don’t know, yet the more intimate my experience….indeed an Enigma.

I HAVE NOT RECEIVED EVERYTHING I HAVE ASKED FOR. On the contrary, as I look over my life much of it (most of it) is a disappointment to me. The essential parts of my life are still amazing, but what I did along the way is quite a muddle. I can see how blind I was and how much I had to learn. Now I spend more time ‘letting go’ than I do ‘asking’.  I let go of this disappointment when it arises, is observed and felt. I don’t ignore, just love and then let go. Much has been sorted and here I sit today with a passion for writing about LOve LIfe and the human journey. I have been sorted out, like wheat and chaff. And I feel the sorting will go on as long as I exist.

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF BEING SORTED OUT. A few days ago, no sooner had I written down a thought for the day, then an opportunity arose to use it. I had asked a question ‘How will I know if  (such and such an action) is going to work?’ I could hear my own question in my head and the answer as well. The answer lay in the words of my freshly narrated sayings. It came in three parts.  Please read it below. 

A TRILOGY ON FAITH.

‘Faith isn’t enough. You need courage, resilience and tenacity to survive all that you thought faith would prevent, but didn’t.’

Or I could say it this way ‘Faith gives you the courage, resilience and tenacity to overcome all adversity.’

Or ‘Building the muscle of courage, of resilience and of tenacity – it is this that enables faith. Faith is vital at the beginning, the middle and at the end.’

Which ever way it is, I am happy to be sorted and build such ephemeral muscles. Then as soon as I think I am there, I’ve made it, my scaffolding collapses and delicateness shows up, ready for my next unfamiliar encounter with newness – always newness ♥ Krysia

Twelve months roll on past
More cakes, gifts, one more celebration
Did you stop? Give a thought
Your life is a Gift
Never just a mere accident of creation

50 years have rolled by
This time its a huge celebration
And yes! I did stop, gave much thought
This birth, this life, each breath is a Gift
Thank you for each precious inhalation

AFTER  50+ BIRTHDAYS I AM REACHING THE POINTY END OF MY LIFE. The time where there are definitely more years behind me than ahead. Still plenty of time and life left. More precious time for life. Each extra moment being precious. Each extra moment an opportunity for greater revelations. More time for graciousness and more time for gratitude. Thank you.

SO MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THAT WONDOROUS DAY OF MY BIRTH. So much change in the world, in my life, but not deep within my heart. Here in Heartspace I connect to such freshness, it blows the wrinkles off my face. For a moment at least and sometimes for longer. Such freshness that implores me to run like a child and to laugh until I burst. Heartspace encouraging child likeness.

IT IS THIS CONNECTION TO SUCH A HEART that is the privilege of having been born. The privilege of a birthday. Worldly life comes and goes. I’m blown around, loose my balance and eventually recover. This is minor in life. It seems major because it takes up so much time and space. And is often noisy and demanding. That part of life is so obvious. It is what is most heard, most seen and nearly magnetic in its pull to consume my sensitivity and gentleness. Only Love can still such a urgent call to habitual action and heartless consumption.

WHAT IS MAJOR IN LIFE IS ‘LIFE’ ITSELF.   Yes ‘LIFE’…….breath, space, the timeless, the space of nothing and the all-inclusive. STILLNESS ITSELF. Through  a sweet connect with each of  ‘LIFE’S moments I am enriched, well nurtured, well loved and graciously complete.The potential within each of LIFE’S moments holds all that is searched for and much desired. What is craved without is available within. Available at no cost, taking less than a moment of time.

Heartspace moments strung like pearls on a wire make for a precious life.

THIS PART OF LIFE IS LESS OBVIOUS. It seems it is only for dedicated meditators and religious types. Yet this is the part of life that adds value without being demanding. It adds nurture without conditions and adds endless potential without doctrine and adherence. It is constantly gifting.

• To be given eyes with which to view manifest existence
• To be given senses which enable me to feel the sun, the wind and a gentle kiss
• To hear songs, music and children laughing

THIS IS THE PRIVILEGE OF A BIRTHDAY ♥

Enjoy such a privilege

Krysia

RICARD MATTHIEU with his smile and calm intelligence has now turned up in my life for the second time. I saw his name in my yahoo news feed under the headline ‘The Happiest Man In The World’ and remembered that I had made a note a few months ago to write about him. I had done some research and found him, his philosophy and way of life inspiring. And listening to him left me warm in my heart, hopeful in my mind and very still within.

OF COURSE I WOULD WANT TO WRITE ABOUT HIM. This is “THE HAPPINESS IS…BLOG” so it makes sense to investigate the man headlined as the happiest man in the world. Whether he is or isn’t is neither here nor there, but reading his works and listening to him speak, I am instantly drawn to him. I want to know more. And I want to know more from his unique perspective.  I have to admit that I feel totally inadequate trying to describe him and to summarize his ‘teaching’. It feels best to just make some quotes and links available to you.

Watch him on YouTube – Mattheiu Ricard ‘Habits of Happiness’ (21mis) and also Matthieu Ricard ‘Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain: The Inner Conditions for Authentic Happiness‘ (59 mins). He is funny, even entertaining. His photography is captivating. He speaks from experience and translates scientific knowledge and results into useful information. He makes so much sense to me and his words touch deeply. Watch and find out for yourself. I like him so much that I feel I have a new friend to learn from Please enjoy.

And here is an excerpt from the website www.matthieuricard.org/en

About Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, an author, translator, and photographer. He has lived, studied, and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years.

The son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu was born in France in 1946 and grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris’ intellectual and artistic circles. He earned a Ph.D. degree in cell genetics at the renowned Institut Pasteur under the Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob. In 1967, he traveled to India to meet great spiritual masters from Tibet.

After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, he decided to concentrate on Buddhist studies and practice. Since then, he has lived in India, Bhutan, and Nepal and studied with some of the greatest teachers of that tradition, Kyapje Kangyur Rinpoche (1897-1975) and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991).

He is the author of several books including The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father; The Quantum and the Lotus, a dialogue with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan; Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill; and Why Meditate? (The Art of Meditation in UK). His books have been translated into over twenty languages.

Living in close proximity to Tibetan teachers and culture has enabled him to capture on camera the spiritual masters, landscapes, and people of the Himalayas. He is the author and photographer of Journey to Enlightenment, Buddhist Himalayas, Monk Dancers of Tibet, Tibet. An Inner Journey, Motionless Journey, and Bhutan. Land of Serenity. His work has been exhibited in New York (RMA Museum, Aperture Gallery), Paris, Perpignan (Visa pour l’image), Winthertur, Stockholm, and Hong Kong.

Henri-Cartier Bresson said of his photographs: “Matthieu’s camera and his spiritual life are one, and from this spring these images, fleeting yet eternal.”

Since 1989, Matthieu has served as the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to collaborative research between scientists and Buddhist scholars and meditators. He is engaged in the research on the effect of mind training and meditation on the brain at various universities in the USA (Madison, Princeton, and Berkeley), Europe (Zurich) and Hong Kong.

Matthieu donates all proceeds from his books and much of his time to fourty humanitarian projects (clinics, schools, orphanages, elder care, bridges, vocational training) in Himalayan areas (www.karuna-shechen.org) and to the preservation of the Tibetan cultural heritage (www.shechen.org).

When he is not traveling, Matthieu resides at Shechen Monastery in Nepal.

© Matthieu Ricard