Happiness: 4 thoughts for the weekend

Happiness is on the inside

Just looking at this picture makes me feel good.  Some thoughts on finding your personal happiness;

  • I am stronger having learnt from my mistakes.  Happier because I have known sadness and learnt how to improve how I feel on the inside.  Happiness can be as simple as meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed.
  • The best things in life are free: hugs, smiles, friends, kisses, family, sleep, love, laughter and good memories
  • Today I refuse to stress myself out over things I cannot control or change.
  • One small positive thought when you wake-up can change how you feel for your entire day.

It is within your control to choose happiness.  Me, I want to be the pink person!

“The only things you take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart”

Susan Cole

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Music and emotions

“Every one of us needs to become more spiritual”

Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

An inspirational and impassioned Russian conductor, Vladimir Jurowski’s latest concert series “Belief and Beyond Belief” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra delivers brilliant music which touches the audiences’ emotions.  In a recent interview with Ian Hewett, Jurowski said he believes;

“Music is so intangible; it is nothing but vibrations.  It points to a realm of extience outside the body, yet it affects our emotions so powerfully.  Nothing brings people together in collective meditation or prayer so well” read more

Our Changing World: Contribute to it being a calmner place

2017 has brought in lots of change for all of us.  On the world stage political leaders are changing, Brexit is being progressed, even Mother Earth is feeling change.  There is much debate on whether there is climate change in process but it is a fact that glaciers and the artic ice is melting.  So something is changing.

Expressing emotions

Are we really separate?

20th century man was adamant that each person is an island and we live our lives in separateness.  In the 21st century we have started to challenge this idea.

Think what it is like to be in a room with a person who is angry or disapproving of you.  It is an uncomfortable place.  You can feel their anger without them even saying a word.  Emotions, especially strong ones, create an aura of energy around the person which you can feel and some people can see.  If we can create and project energy with our minds that others can feel and read, we are not discreet and separate. read more

Joy – the happiness that comes from within

Happiness, joy and bliss are different states of being. Happiness is often fleeting. Moments of it come and go with no control from us but brought on by an exceptionally beautiful view, a good meal, great company etc. All are external factors. Joy comes from within ourselves and can be sustained. Bliss is the next step which is available to us all but few attain.

Joy, the happiness that comes from within by Osho. He talks with humour about attaining joy and bliss. It is a thought provoking read. I found I read a few chapters, then stopped to consider the ideas. Then I read some more chapters. Text inserts of key ideas were good for reminding me of the concepts I had already read about. read more

Emotions conveyed through art

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Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) – modern painter extraordinaire Here is a sample of Mark Rothko’s paintings published by the National Gallery, UK in a 2015 calendar.  Some would say that Rothko’s paintings are too simplistic and anyone could create them. While working at Christies the Art Auction House an art expert said to me, a painting is beautiful not because

of the exquisite execution of the painting by the artist, but by the emotions it evokes in the beholder of the art.  Rothko’s extraordinary achievement was the communication of tragedy and elation through forms reduced to their starkest simplicity – often times a pair of rectangles.  At a Rothko exhibition in the Tate Modern, London I could definitely feel the difference between his earlier brighter paintings and his later darker ones.  They had a whole room of his later paintings but it felt heavy and depressing.  I did not want to linger in the room. read more