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@Danica2020 Thank you for adding that. I haven't looked deeper into it yet, but it already resonates. One of the most hands-on (or hands-off for that matter) learnings through MBSR for me was related to eating. Listening to my own needs and not mistaking the need for a break for hunger as I used to, not mistaking thirst for hunger. Not mistaking the need for self-care for hunger, not trying to ease stress through eating. As the amount of food I consumed did shrink, I also got more conscious about what, when and how much I eat to be fully satisfied. I'll take a closer look into intuitive eating. :-)

Dear Angelina, This is an excellent question. I catch myself pretending that it didn't affect me much as infections and deaths are (for now) far away, and there is also no economic impact in our family (yet). Despite me being lucky and privileged in the crises if I am honest, it does come with a psychological cost. I am more nervous, I feel more pressure, and in the back of my head, there's more worry than usual. Worry about family and friends but also about the state of the world in general. An additional layer of uncertainty about almost everything that requires conscious work and subsequent action. To me it seems like this crisis is, on the one hand, making things way worse, and on the other hand, it makes ongoing injustices even more visible and grave and gives us the chance to finally make the steps towards a world that is more just, equal and supportive. At least that's what I am hoping for and working towards. How about yourself?

Doctor, I so appreciate your inquiry. There are lots of paths for coping with grief. Our approach, at Spirit of Resh Foundation, goes beyond coping. It is a path for conscious mourning—engaging with grief as a healing journey and more...as a transformational one. It’s called Loss to Legacy: A stepping stone path to healing and transformation. It includes a lot of stories along with an extensive workbook of practices as well as journaling prompts for moving through grief in a profoundly powerful way. You can find it on Amazon or our website Where we have just reduced the price and include shipping to support people through this pandemic.(www.reshfoundation.org/our-books) Hope this helps you on your journey!

I would love to meditate.. taking conscious breath and be in the present moment

Here's some more: 02.04.2020 5:00 PM CET Lewis Rossignol teaches collage live on youtube 03.04.2020 9:30 AM PST Science of Happiness webinar with our partners at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center on Facebook live Free video training and live webinar via conscious life Spiritual Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Harvard Divinity School Learn about coping skills on positivepsychology.com (hint: watching cute kitten videos on youtube is one of them!) Each Monday at 7pm-8pm EST online Medicine Buddha Practice and more with Lama Rod Owens Gretchen Rubin has daily conversations on Instagram Live: Coping with COVID-19 for Hacks, Encouragement, and Connection.

Today, I've been pondering the following quote: "Fearlessness is what love seeks...Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future...It is only by calling past and future into the present of remembrance and expectation that time exists at all. Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now." -Hannah Arendt Do you find it hard to find that fearlessness when in love? Do you find yourself experiencing fear and it's related consequential emotions when the ways your mind perceives the words and/or actions of your loved one(s) cause you to recall (and therefore project onto them) past hurts and/or traumas, specifically when they had absolutely no intention to make you feel that way? Inversely, knowing that impermanence is universal law, do you find yourself experiencing anxiety over the future loss of the love shared? Do you find it hard to remain present in the Now, where problems usually exist only in the conceptual mind? I believe these are completely normal thoughts and feelings that humans experience. However, I do believe that if we can remain as present in the Now as possible, remaining conscious that the only time that ever exists is Now, aiming to dis-identify from and simply observe our judgments cultivated from past experiences and future anxieties, that we can greatly lessen the severity and frequency of those experiences of anxiety. I would love to hear the thoughts of others.

YouTube aron Dougherty has done one raising your vibration it's really good I did it in January & changed loads. He still says even doing it now as the energy & intentions are there. Really recommend it..You do need to listen for 21 days every day. I know theses meditation works well in my experience it did for me. We are collective conscious so the more people at the same time meditate on the same topic the more intention the bigger flow goes to the topic etc.

Looking through my pictures today I was curious on how other peoples landscape looks like in February. So I had the thought of asking you guys to upload your present landscape at the place where you live and share it with me? Maybe write the country where the picture got taken, that would be great to know. I will share the landscape I live in. I'm in Spain and we are so lucky to enjoy almond blossom right now. I try being conscious about my surroundings and look for gradual changes in nature. At the beginning if January I saw the almond tree getting prepared for blossom, and not many days later they were ready to bloom. Now I try to consciously enjoy them every day, because their beauty won't last long. Looking forward to snow and cold in other parts of the world ???.

Ofcourse. So let me share in brief the meditation technique. 5 things to consider before you start meditating (not hard and fast rules but just what I follow) 1. Keep gap of minimum 2 hours after eating and stick to vegetarian food. 2. Preferably have a shower or ensure you are not facing any itching or any allergies. 3. Make sure you are not having a bad cold or fever or any kind of severe pain. 4. Not to have any stressful activity or in arguments with anyone. 5. Not to engage in any other religious or spiritual activities such as Yoga or other forms of meditation. 5 things to consider after meditation (Living a Neutral lifestyle) 1. Avoid getting into arguments or stressful situations as much as possible. 2. Avoid eating meat and over eating and wasting food. Please donate extra food. 3. Avoid judging others or passing judgments. 4. Be empathic to people around you and offer care and help those in desperate need. 5. Avoid getting into new addictions and attachments. Morning Affirmations (after ending meditation) I wish that I am protected from all evil eyes, evil people, negative thoughts and negative energies. I wish that I have good health and a long and healthy life and recover from any illness that I may suffer or suffering. I wish that I am protected from all natural and man-made calamities and any unfortunate events or accidents. I wish that I arrive at my destination safely and reach my home safely. I wish that I am able to manifest all that is positive or neutral for myself and others around me and able to focus and be successful in whatever I wish to undertake. Evening Affirmations (before going to sleep) I thank the source for guiding me through the day, helping me focus on myself and protecting my body and my soul. I allow the source to support me in my manifestations through my subconscious mind in my sleep. I wish to wake up in sound mind and good health with my soul and body under the protection of the source. Meditation (Day 1 & 2) Before breakfast on empty stomach after shower Mind Taming Exercise: Breath Awareness Meditation (5 minutes) This is a simple form of meditation. It will clear your mind and focus your awareness. Sit or lie down, close your eyes focused on one particular thing a person or object that ensures any other external thoughts do not enter your mind. It is a good practice to start the first day by taking the help of a source of positive energy such as an image of God or a saint or an angel or anything you feel is a source of positive energy. If you are an atheist then you can focus on your own body at the centre of your forehead or something from nature. As long it signifies positive or neutral energy. You can also listen to some light spiritual music and breathe deeply in and slowly out and focus on the breath entering and leaving your body. Feel it coming in and feel it going out. This simple action is enough to occupy your surface mind. Breath awareness occupies the surface mind and allows you to think on a much deeper level. Firmly push intruding thoughts away, as they begin, before they can gather strength and distract you. End the meditation with folded hands making your morning affirmations. Evening after sunset and 2 hours after meal or dinner Ego Release exercise: Getting detached meditation (10 minutes) Sit or lie down, close your eyes. PRETEND you are a bird imaging your hands as the wings of a bird flying higher and higher. Free from the ground, the earth, the reality, letting go of your physical existence. While you are doing this, you may feel sleepy or tears rolling down your eyes. Do not break the meditation and be attentive with the mind focused on your hands and body. End the meditation with folded hands releasing your ego from your conscious being and making your evening affirmations. Meditation (Day 3 & 4) Before breakfast on empty stomach after shower Rejuvenation Exercise: Self Awareness Meditation (5 minutes) As in Day 1 and Day 2 you will b e focusing on clearing your mind. But in day 3 and 4, you should try to focus your own self, your body and what you want from life in general. Such as your positive desires and goals in life. You can also listen to some light spiritual music and breathe deeply in and slowly out and focus on the breath entering and leaving your body imagining your own image or desires. Feel it coming in and feel it going out. Make sure that your mind is occupied with yourself, you inner and outer self. Firmly push intruding thoughts away, as they begin, before they can gather strength and distract you. End the meditation with folded hands making your morning affirmations. Evening after sunset and 2 hours after meal or dinner Energy Work exercise: Accessing Neutral Energy (10 minutes) Sit or lie down, close your eyes. Focus on your own image on the left and the source of positive energy on the right. If you are an atheist then you can focus on your own body at the centre of your forehead or something from nature. As long it signifies positive or neutral energy. You can also listen to some light spiritual music and breathe deeply and slowly and focus on the breath entering and leaving your body. While you are doing this, you may notice brightness in your eyes. Do not resist it. Allow it to reach within you. Then spread your hands all over your body to spread the energy all over you. Repeat this exercise three to four times so you receive as much energy as you need to remove all the negativity around you that has been accumulated and release your soul. End the meditation with folded hands making your evening affirmations. Meditation (Day 5 & 6) Before breakfast on empty stomach after shower Love affirmation Exercise: Social Awareness Meditation (5 minutes) In these two days you will be trying to clear your mind and focus the people you love and care about. Sit or lie down, close your eyes. So you begin first by focusing outwards on the people you love such as your friends and family or the society you live in, your environment, your country or the world in general. You can also listen to some light spiritual music and breathe deeply and slowly and focus on the breath entering and leaving your body. As your breathe in, think of a loved one and imagine hugging the person as your breathe out. Firmly push intruding thoughts away, as they begin, before they can gather strength and distract you. End the meditation with folded hands making your morning affirmations. Evening after sunset and 2 hours after meal or dinner Energy Work exercise: Transferring Neutral Energy (10 minutes) Sit or lie down, close your eyes. You can also listen to some light spiritual music and breathe deeply in and slowly breathe out focusing on the image of a loved one on the left and the source of positive energy on the right. If you are an atheist then you can focus on your own body at the centre of your forehead or something from nature. As long it signifies positive or neutral energy. Repeat this exercise for each person whom you wish to transfer the energy to and then in the end, spread your hands all over your body to spread the remaining energy all over you. End the meditation with folded hands making your evening affirmations. Meditation (Day 7 onwards) After completing Day 1 to Day 6 successfully and achieving complete silence of the mind, one can start practicing Neu Energy Meditation which is very intense and requires guidance and protection from the trainer for the first few sessions. So I cannot share the technique openly here. But will see if I can attach a live video my practicing this meditation. For details please message me personally. I am ready to teach this intense meditation to those interested but only if the learner meets the conditions for the practice. Note for Admin/Moderators: Was unable to embed the meditation video with MP4 format.

Wow, a chance to start over? None of us would choose such a challenging route, but since you have no choice, congratulations to you for making it a conscious journey.

Being conscious is to be present... to be present where? .... in senses...senses bring us to the present moment...by adoring and appreciating life, we fulfill inner self more:) greetings to everyone and happy holidays

Thank you for considering to upgrade! To be completely honest, the plus membership is really just in it's beginnings at the moment, there is not much we can offer in return at this point, so unless you want to support us I would say save your money for now As I mentioned in the other thread, I don't see happiness moving into a political direction at this point. Our focus is on building a conscious community that allows for open sharing on topics around happiness and broader well-being. The magazine is also just in it's beginnings, our main objective at the moment is to increase the amount of contributors so we can cover more relevant topics. A print version is not on our list.

This popped on on my fb so I was happy of course to join. Ive studied many religions, philosophies, LOA books, motivational talks, Abraham, the classic books such as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence to Louise L Hay, Deepak Chopra and many, many more. They have all been a joy, a gift and enriched my life. Ultimately, I feel happiness can be found in gratitude and joy in the present moment. Its great and important to have dreams, visions and goals but the right energy invested in the present is the key to happiness (and the most joyous route to take you anywhere). I really believe we are just part of a huge energy source, vibrating according to our conscious and subconscious thoughts. Mindfulness matters and life is a journey through the evolution of this consciousness. Happy to meet like minded people here and share positive vibes.

Hi, Allow me to relate to this through what I have experienced rather than what I have understood or read. Consciousness is actually a state of mind which is extremely still and relaxed. It is so different to the thinking mind. Actually when you say consciousness you can't even call it as part of the mind. It is that free from thoughts, endless thoughts that come to our mind without any control. When you are conscious, and living in the consciousness you can think, you can plan, you can study, you can do all these things but the difference is you have a control of what you want to think and what not. The extreme beauty is this control you have is effortless. It is not something you have to think and do when you are properly tuned to this deep state. We must find a teacher who can guide us to this state as an experience, not as a mere understanding. Then one will know it by experience the calmness and consciousness I am talking about. One will know true happiness and may even know what is beyond the body mind. There are such teachers, extremely rare I would say but there is. And at "Nisala International Meditation Centre" I have found such a capable unique teacher. I am actually trying to introduce this teacher to the mass community around the world as I can. You can read more at http://nisala.org/ and also participate to experience this at our events. http://nisala.org/events/ Thank you.

Hello, Jenny. Welcome to happiness ? Losing someone close to us is quite traumatising and requires a great amount of strength, courage, and patience. I'm happy to hear you have a wonderful family to lean on, and I hope our little conscious community can be of service to you in future. I wish you the very best on your journey ?✨

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Hello! Thank you for joining and welcome to our little happiness community! Happiness.com is just in its infant stage, but I can already say that I find it good for very many things! There's a whole community of curious, kind and openhearted people willing to share their life experiences and lessons with others. People willing to help and serve, learn and experience, and welcome and support anyone in need of it. Unlike Facebook, we are a little conscious community for those interested in more "Real" topics related to life, love, loss, mindfulness, peace, dis-ease, etc. It can be whatever you’d like it to be :) All the best on your journey ?✨

I support sustainable projects from people, organisations and instituions and maintain a sustainable lifestyle, save energy, consume less, be conscious about my actions, don't eat meat...

In Givin School we are learning to meditate indoor and outdoor, in activity and in calm. So in each time you have instruments to get out from the frames of your mind and to enter to the present moment. If you want to know more about conscious life beyond the mind borders visit https://en.givinschool.org . Happiness are hidden in your heart. When you open up your heart and remove suspicious evaluative mind control you will find joy and happiness. Retrit in Givin School is complex of meditative practices and is very good in open up ones heart https://retrit.org/en. It does not matter how you will force your heart to live, to feel, to breath but you need to do that to be able to move to the happiness life. Good Luck!

I realize that I had different habits and dynamics about how to make friends (and keep the friendships going!) throughout the years. Recently, after moving to Barcelona I was making so much effort to make friends. It's fine of course but at a point, I realized that I was going for quantity and end up being unsatisfied and exhausted. So I'm acting differently lately and I feel happier with fewer friends but having a quality time with people I truly feel interested in getting to know more. On the other hand, I realized that friendships require a conscious effort. After moving here I felt that I'm losing the ties with my friends so I started to be more aware and careful about calling them often and now I'm even closer with some of my old friends. How did you guys experience these situations with friends after moving abroad, do you feel like @Calvin77 about it? Calvin, how did you deal with that?

I had the same impression. value is key. People are more conscious about their online time and there is already a lot of content out there. We also need to see the different target groups. As there are yoga teachers and other businesses on the one hand side which make out a living and which like to find better reach. On the other hand side, there are students who want to look for classes, improve their yoga or maybe connect with others. So we should look at how we can improve communication here. Usually, the token argument was not the first thing to communicate.

The idea is to reward actions that contribute to the happiness.com vision " A kind, conscious, peaceful and loving humanity " and our mission " To cultivate a safe and supportive community and share tools, practices and experiences that empower everyone to live happy and fulfilled lives " Actions within the happiness.com community which support this will be rewarded with HAPPY Token. Participation in the forum, engaging content reaching out to others are just some examples. What exactly that is and how many HAPPY Tokens are awarded we won't say as 1. we are continually tweaking the settings in the background 2. it changes each day as the number depends on the total amount of rewardable actions and the number of users within the last 24h. I am sure the rest of the happiness.com team has more to add.

As a nurse, it can be really difficult with consent. There are plenty of times we see things that are really hard to deal with, or a patient that you think you could help, but isn't fully conscious, or sane, and you want to help...but you can't. Consent is a really important topic, and also an interesting one, especially in the medical field.