Find Your Happiness Factor

Magnificent You

Today I offer you an invitation to step into a magical world with me. This is a place of wonderful, exotic experiences. Around every bend in the road you will find a unique challenge. Each challenge will offer you a chance to grow, it will ask you to stretch your beliefs about who you are and what you are capable of achieving. For today and for now, try to suspend judgment and criticism. It may not be easy for you to suspend judgment, but just come along for the fun of it.

Be Happy Not Lonely at Christmas

It's the Christmas season again and that usually means it's party time.  Time for reconnecting with family and friends, for sharing and caring and for giving and receiving of gifts as tokens of endearment.  Even if you're not busy racing around buying gifts and preparing for Christmas festivities, it's difficult to stay immune to the general mood of festivity.  So join in the merriment, feel the buzz in the shopping centers, spread the good cheer to friends and strangers alike.  Your attitude of goodwill will add  pleasant vibes to everyone you meet.

This festive season is a fabulous opportunity to generate uplifting energies and send them out to the world.  All year we are bombarded with unpleasant news through the media, but at Christmas we have an excuse to spread happiness and focus on joy and more life and happiness for all.

You might want to bear in mind that these days of sharing and festivities don't necessarily hold so much happiness for everyone. People who find themselves alone, with no family nearby and their usual friends busy with their own families, may feel lonely and even sad amid the music and bustle that seems to have passed them by.  If you can think of someone in this situation, alone for Christmas, give them a ring, invite them to share your party or Christmas dinner.  No-one should feel totally alone at Christmas.  'Tis the season to be jolly not lonely.  If you can make a difference to someone's happiness, offer your friendship and caring.

If you find yourself alone, look around, think of those you know who may be in the same boat and invite them over or meet up with them on Christmas day.  Visit  a hospital or hospice where many often elderly folks have no-one to visit them.  Don't just sit at home wishing you were celebrating with lots of friends and family. There is always far more joy in giving to others than in receiving.

Get out there and make someone else feel special when you show you care about them, even if they are strangers.  Love creates family just as much as blood makes family, maybe even more so.

Whatever your personal circumstances may be over the Christmas/New Year festivities, adopt an attitude of "How can I contribute to the happiness of others?" rather than simply taking whatever fun you can get.  Enjoy the momentum of festive cheer and goodwill of these days leading up to Christmas, and make a point of giving more than you receive of love, happiness and friendly caring.  Decide you're going to have a happy Christmas and let your happiness emanate to others like a delightful fragrance.  Money can't buy love but your loving kindness will make Christmas worthwhile.

To your happiness,

Marie Barrett

www.holisticwealthcreation.com

Happiness Factor: Wealth in Money, Wealth in Love

How can I improve my life experience and start attracting wealth and happiness? You've probably asked that question, or something like it,  a hundred times.  I know over time I have.  Wealth and happiness may seem synonymous and I agree.  If you mean money when you speak of wealth, that is really only a part of the equation.  Holistic wealth reaches out to embrace richness of experience  in all areas of life.

Certainly, money helps.  Money is a wonderful tool to enable you to expand your field of experience and pleasure.  Wanting to attract more wealth through money is a natural and excellent desire. It is innate in us to want to expand, to live more of life, to grow rich and wealthy and more than fill our place in this world.  Having an abundance of money will certainly prosper the desire to become more and experience the finer joys that money can provide.

Wealth in personal relationships is similar and no less important than abundance of the green stuff.  Wealth allows you to expand your joy of experience, of possession, of mutual exchange, of more than filling your place.  And isn't this what  romance and love are about?  Wealth in love and relationships spurs you on to strive for more love, for deeper understanding and for the delight of  growth in the giving of your love to another and of allowing their love to flow back to you.

Love is one of those gifts that actually regenerate in the hands of the giver.  The more you give love to others, the more it refills and expands your inner capacity to hold love and to share it.  Love is energy and follows the same laws as all energy.  If it is not advancing, it's retreating.  If it's not growing, it's diminishing.  So I see the sense in giving it away, in sharing it so that it will not only replenish for me, but will expand in my heart to create greater wealth, deeper love.

If love replenishes in the hand of the giver, so does money.  Money, like love, is simply energy.  It too, bows to the laws of energy.  The sages throughout the ages have known this and have urged tithing, sharing your money by gifting it to some worthy cause.  When you give money for the good and happiness of someone else, according to the laws governing energy, more of the same will come back to you. It will  more than replenish the empty space created by what you have given away because  its energetic compulsion is to continue movement, to grow and expand.  Few understand the power and magic of philanthropy, of tithing and of generosity, but those who practice it will attest to the ten fold return promised in the scriptures of all the major religions. 

So enjoy more wealth in terms of giving and receiving love and delight in generously sharing your money with others as the reward will outshine the giving.  It boils down to the fact that money and love create more wealth to the degree you don't hold on to them with a tight fist, but openly share and allow their energies to flow.

Marie Barrett

http://www.holisticwealthcreation.com

Happiness Is An Inside Job

If you are alone, you can be happy.  If you are busy you can be happy.  If you are pressured with the worry of buying gifts or just rushing around because everyone else seems to be rushing around, you can still be happy, because happiness is an inside job, it's all in your mind.

Today is the first day of Summer here in Australia. The birds are doing what they do best, chirping and flitting around in joy.  The sun is warm and the breeze is gently caressing the leaves in the tree outside my window. The first December day of the happy season of Christmas.  Regardless of your religious affiliation or even if you have none whatever, Christmas is a season for joy, love and sharing. 

Yeah right!  Well, Yes, right!  Because being happy is an inside job.  It starts in your mind with a decision to be happy.  Being happy puts you in place slightly above the hustle of what you may be doing.  Your body moves, your mind thinks but your heart stays in a peace that happiness gives, just a step away from everything going on around you.

That's what happiness does.  It lifts you up to a special vibration that is impenetrable to chaos.  In the weeks ahead, on the countdown to Christmas, if you find yourself feeling stressed or worried or hustled, lift your heart above your head and decide to be happy.  It's such a good place to be!  It's your decision.  And that's all it takes to get there: your decision.

Marie Barrett

http://www.holisticwealthcreation.com

Are You Really Willing to Feel Happy?

Happiness is a decision. Have you ever decided that you were going to feel happy all day,
and show it, no matter what?

I have and believe it or not, it can be quite daunting sharing your happy feelings
until you get used to it.

For instance, what's the most usual way people show they are happy?
How do you show you're happy?  You smile, right? 
This comes naturally and we don't have to think about it - until....

Try going to work with the intention of feeling happy all day and see what happens.
Yes, heaps of counter-happy thoughts, situations and people will rap on your happiness door all day,
but besides this, and we'll address it later, what's happening with the smile?

I found at first, that when I was in the supermarket, for instance,
I could be wrapped up in my own little happy world, smile on the dial,
and others would look at me intently and smile back. 
Then someone else would smile at me, someone I didn't even know,
and this went on and on.

The point is, when you smile at someone you automatically engage in eye contact as well.
So now you have lots of people looking at you eye to eye and smiling.

This would happen again and again.  You know, it could be a bit un-nerving
to a lesser mortal, to have complete strangers smile at you wherever you go! 
The thought crosses one's mind that maybe you have tomato sauce
down the front of your shirt, or your ear ring has twisted
and is sticking out horizontally instead of dangling down sweetly as it ought.

In fact, you can become quite self-conscious about smiling at all
because too much friendliness is coming back at you! 
Well, I guess you can feel happy without the need
to smile outwardly all the time, but for the purpose of the experiment
of feeling happy all day long and showing it, have a go,
and note how you feel about all the unaccustomed second glances and smiles
coming your way.

Feel happy and show it to the world and let your presence uplift others

Marie Barrett

http://www.holisticwealthcreation.com 

What is the Happiness Factor Anyway?

Welcome to the Happiness Factor blog.

May you feel the peace and love of the
Happiness Factor pouring out to you.

What is the Happiness Factor? 

This is the million dollar question we will discus in depth
in future entries and I encourage you to offer your own wisdom and insights
as we develop the theme over time.

So let's begin.

What is the single most important and yet elusive feeling everyone on the planet is seeking?

Think about your answer for a moment.

If you say people want to feel rich, I ask why do they want to feel rich? 
What emotion does feeling rich evoke?

If you suggest they want to feel that someone loves them more than anyone else,
I ask what feeling are they searching for when they say they want to be loved so deeply?

Feeling that someone loves them leads to which emotion?

So we have money and relationships addressed. What about the feeling of self-esteem and personal worth? 
If you actually develop a healthy self-esteem, how does this make you feel?

I think you can see where these questions are heading, right?

Intrinsic to all deep human desire , and above any one area of  prosperity,
we all want to feel happy. 

It's simple really.

We want to feel happy!

Let's face it.  Money , little pieces of metal and plastic, or virtual money - and there is a huge question as to whether it even exists! can hardly make you happy.

It's what money can buy, you may say. 
But look at all the movie stars or business tycoons or lottery winners
who possess too much money to use in their own lifetime, yet the Happiness Factor eludes them.

So with love and relationships, with health and fitness, with emotional well-being and self-esteem, possessing them at whatever level does not guarantee possession or discovery of
the Happiness Factor.

Happiness is the ultimate emotion and feeling we all desire. 

All the paths to happiness are servants of the ultimate goal.

Next time, let's explore this in greater depth.

Meanwhile, focus on how you are feeling right now.  Can you be happy in this instant?

You have a choice you know.  So say yes to feeling happy, just for now.

Have a happy moment ten times today!

Marie Barrett

http://www.holisticwealthcreation.com