Happiness Information

Love and Laughter - Celebrating the Gift of Life


Only you can call me into aliveness. Each time you try to understand and because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings. With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of understanding, you can breathe life into me. ~ Charles C. Finn Life is our brief precious time to feel-to experience love, laughter, and wonder-to design and contribute our unique creations and expressions of who we are and what we want to leave behind.

I paused to think about this gift of life, mysterious and marvelous. Filled with roller coaster highs and lows, each moment of life is exhilarating.

Our living energy continuously moves and changes, always seeking increase and offering abundance. I asked, "How do I celebrate this precious gift of life?"

Here are ten ways I like to celebrate being alive.

  • Walking though nature, and noticing the perfection in each intimate landscape.
  • Going to special places that fill me with energy; allowing that energy to wash away negativity; simply being instead of wanting or doing.
  • Hiking up the trail to a mountaintop in summer; skiing down from a mountaintop in winter.
  • Looking through an album filled with photos of friends and the places we have traveled.
  • Doing a favor for someone I have never met and making a new friend.
  • Enjoying the company of friends and family; laughing together and exchanging jokes, stories, and experiences.
  • Looking into a starry sky and imagining just how far it actually reaches.
  • Sharing experiences, joys, hopes, and future dreams with a friend.
  • Fully experiencing each moment and its emotions; remembering that all emotions are part of being alive.
  • Giving thanks to the Creator for allowing me to live on this planet, for friends and family, and for a gift so complete and perfect as life.
  • There is a beautiful quote by Frederick Buechner: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Allow your heart to grow wings. Savor every moment of life and reflect deeply on each experience. Celebrate the peaks and valleys. Become aware of the authentic joy that continually binds moment to moment, year to year, and generation to generation.

    Most importantly, give life the best you have, and life will give its best back to you.

    © Copyright by Steve Brunkhorst. Steve is a professional life success coach, motivational author, and the editor of Achieve! 60-Second Nuggets of Inspiration, a popular mini-zine bringing great stories, motivational nuggets, and inspiring thoughts to help you achieve more in your career and personal life. Get the next issue by visiting http://www.AchieveEzine.com


    MORE RESOURCES:

    Los Angeles Times

    The science of happiness
    Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
    ___ Happiness is genetic. You can't change how happy you are any more than you can change how tall you are. IF RECENT scientific research on happiness ...


    Los Angeles Times

    How a 'Happiness' guide helped one Topanga Canyon family
    Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
    By Marnell Jameson, Special to The Times Happiness, and finding more of it, has been on the minds of Adam and Kelly Radinsky for about a year now. ...


    Times Online

    Sir Cliff speaks frankly about his 'companion' the ex-priest
    Independent, UK - 3 hours ago
    "People often make the mistake of thinking that only marriage equals happiness," he writes. "I may suddenly meet someone and feel differently, but right now ...
    Sir Cliff Richard discusses relationship with ex-priest NME.com
    Fans queue for hours to meet Cliff The Press Association
    Cliff Richard talks about his live-in priest First Post
    all 475 news articles


    A guide to enhancing happiness
    Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
    Count your blessings. Express gratitude for what you have privately and also by conveying appreciation to others. Cultivate optimism. ...


    iUniverse Would Like to Announce the Release of Happiness by ...
    PR.com (press release), NY - 2 hours ago
    In Happiness -- a Matter of the Mind, Vantage Point of an Octogenarian, she offers an engaging guide for all people searching for contentment. ...


    Teri Hatcher's Key to Happiness: Sex & Chocolate
    People Magazine - 7 hours ago
    By Monique Jessen Teri Hatcher has motherly advice for her daughter – and the Desperate Housewives star is only to eager to share it. ...


    NFL to Kevin Smith: Our Marketing is More Important Than Your ...
    FanHouse, NY - 7 hours ago
    The league originally told Smith that he couldn't change from no. 34 to 24, which he wore in college, because he wore "34" in the rookie photo shoot, ...


    Compensation: Pursuit of happiness
    CanadianBusiness.com, Canada - 12 hours ago
    Even among the most selfish employees, it was only the amount they spent on others that led to increased happiness, according to research by Michael Norton, ...


    Happiness is a jelly belly.. just ask Ulrika
    The Sun, UK - 7 hours ago
    ULRIKA JONSSON is about three stone overweight, with a jelly belly, round face and massive boobs. From a certain angle she still appears to be pregnant. ...


    Happiness is a warm puppy: RIP Snoopy
    Philadelphia citypaper.net, PA - Sep 4, 2008
    Almost as iconic as the Charles Schulz's funnies of his childhood doppelganger Charlie Brown and co. are Bill Melendez's animated specials starring the ...

    Happiness - Google News

    home | site map
    © 2006