“Happy new year!”
What a wonderful way to start a new calendar year with: everyone celebrating and wishing happiness upon each other.
It is also my sincere and heartfelt wish that happiness be yours this year and every year. May this year bring you closer to your truth and to that which is unshakably joyous within you.
At the turn of the year, at mid-night on New Year’s Eve, we celebrate the change with a bang of colorful fireworks displays and balloon popping – and rightly so! These are symbolic for all that we want to release.
‘Destroying roses’ is a technique used in energywork for precisely the same purpose: to release the unwanted. By destroying the old we make space for the new. This is the true celebration of change and one that can carry on all year through.
Self healing tip: Imagine a huge beautiful rose in the sky. See yourself putting inside it all that you are done with and then just destroy it in a brilliant explosion of color.
We leave behind the old and turn a new leaf, so we can start all over again. So we can have a fresh new canvas to paint on. With spirit on our side the possibilities for what we can create are truly limitless.
According to the insights I’ve been getting from the Supreme Being, 2014 promises to be quite a groundbreaking year for spirituality. Lies will be revealed and more of the truth will be coming forward. Hurray to that!
In 2013 many people came to me who were struggling with depression. As I looked at the energy and conditions that caused it, I was truly amazed by how they were all basically the same in nature. The following tips are based on my observations and are some useful steps you can take to beat the blues.
19 easy ways you can create more happiness into your life in 2014
1. Get outside often to get fresh air and Earth energy. Go for regular walks in the nature. Spending too much time indoors with the heating dulls your energy and complexion not to mention it also dries your skin. Getting fresh Earth energy revitalizes your energy channels and nurtures the body. Give this to your body. If you are not able to spend time outdoors at least get house plants and learn to visually circulate your Earth energy.
2. Live your own life instead of the life you are expected to live. This is probably the most important clue here. If you are not happy with the life you are living, then you are not living your own life – you are living the life you were expected to live. Quite simple. Go on a quest to determine what your truth and your true dreams are. Then pursue them wholeheartedly. This is the journey of a spiritual warrior – it’s not always easy, but at least it’s worth it and oh so fulfilling!
3. Don’t explain yourself. You didn’t come here into this body, into this lifetime to please others, explain yourself or to apologize for being you. This is toxic energy and leads nowhere. Own who you are and where you are.
4. Feel free to create boundaries with toxic energy. Some individuals can become toxic in our lives if they are constantly zapping us of our energy and bringing us down. Do not hesitate to take care of yourself. You and your own energy are your own highest priority. Become best friends with yourself.
5. Let go of responsibility that is not yours. As a sensitive, empathic and compassionate individual you may feel an urge to help everyone and maybe even rescue them. Maybe you feel it’s your responsibility to heal all the misery in the world. This does no one any good. You can’t help another man up when you are down yourself. Seriously, stop leaking your energy and use it to create more happiness into your own life.
6. Rest more. Create more space for rest in your to-do-list. Especially if you are the super busy type. Regular afternoon naps assure that you feel rested and energized to take on the daily tasks with renewed vigour.
7. Exercise regularly. Giving your body movement and exercise is a way to get those happy chemicals running. You’ll increase your stamina and will feel a lot happier for it.
8. Practice regular grounded meditation. Grounding is an energywork technique that is used to anchor your being into your body and into the Earth. Whenever you feel ‘out of sorts’ simply come back into present time and reset your grounding. I also recommend running your Earth and Cosmic energies to get access to your intelligence and well-being. I teach these tools in my meditation classes.
9. Create and destroy roses. If there is anything you want to let go of – a worry, stress, heaviness, an old conversation you are done with, judgement – simply see a color for it, imagine putting it into a rose and then explode the rose. And voilà – you have your space back.
10. Laugh. Stop taking yourself so seriously! Seriously – try it right now. Imagine your life as a comedy show.
11. Slow down. Un-busy yourself. Don’t always rush to the next thing just because where you are may feel uncomfortable. Savor every moment. This is a mindfulness practice.
12. Be gentle with yourself. Do not ever beat yourself up about anything. Don’t judge or criticize yourself. You are always doing the best you can. It is okay to feel vulnerable and insecure sometimes. Love every little unloved part of yourself.
13. Eat healthy nutritious food. Your body needs healthy, organic and toxin-free food to sustain itself and to feel good. Please don’t be surprised that you don’t feel great after you’ve eaten packaged, microwaved, processed or GMO food that is made somewhere in a factory where very little to no love and care is put into that food.
14. Practice gratitude. Give thanks every day for even the smallest of life’s blessings. This is the most effective way to reset your energy and bring yourself back into present time.
15. Give yourself permission to daydream. We did this as kids, but rarely allow ourselves this pleasure as adults. Besides being a great way to relax, daydreams are where your spirit communicates to you your Next Step. Be open to those moments.
16. Ask for help when you need it. Don’t wait for others to ‘read between the lines’. Trust that help will be there and even if it won’t be what you expect – it will be precisely what you need.
17. Join in community. If you feel isolated you may be holding yourself back from your happiness, because of a responsibility to heal someone else who can’t have ‘togetherness’. You may be living in the wrong place because of sacrifice. Try relocating to where there are more those of like mind.
18. Get a healing when you need one – whatever a healing means to you. Having a clairvoyant healing or a reading is a good way to heal.
19. Give cares over to the Supreme Being often. You do not have to do it all yourself. You are never alone even if it may feel like it sometimes! Imagine the Supreme Being like a friend or a parent who loves you more than you could ever imagine. He / she is always ready and willing to help.
© Hello EssenceJoy 2014
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