Elese Coit

What if you woke up only to find you were asleep?
The difference between waking up and wondering where all the time went, and a full life hinges on awareness.  At least for me, it does..

I talk about the three elements of awareness, plus the wonderful inspiration of Anthony de Mello, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eldon Taylor and Peter Fenner.

Here is the suggested practice which is from Anthony de Mello's book "Awareness"

Identify the negative feelings in you

Understand that they are in you not in the world

Do no see them as part of your I (they come and go)

Understand that when you change, everything changes

Explore this further and see the video of Anthony de Mello.

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Robert Holden introduced me to the notion of there being a world of difference between the 'pursuit of happiness' and 'following your joy'. In the show I talk about Robert's work, the purpose of happiness, limits we place on our happiness and how and why we learned to be unhappy.  I read from Michael Neill's Feel Happy Now, and Barry Neil Kaufmans' To Love is To Be Happy With'.

Suggested exercise for this week:  Take your happiness temperature.  How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being unreasonably joyous)?  Find a moment or two during the week when you consciously and deliberately raise your Happiness Thermometer just a bit. You don't have to aim for the moon!  And you don't need a reason.   Notice what it takes to do deliberately raise your level.

Want more ways to explore happiness?  Here's a few more exercises to open the mind and heart

If you want to talk more about how to be happier, let me know! 

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Learn to weather the storms of challenge and upheaval. His  new book, Wise Mind, Open Mind, pioneering psychotherapist Dr. Ron Alexander draws on Buddhist mindfulness practices and tools from Positive Psychology to teach others how to find "mindstrength," the ability to develop mastery over our thoughts and to transmute our painful emotions.

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Dr. Jonathan Ellerby, Spiritual Program Director for the highly acclaimed Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. He has spent more than 20 years in a personal, professional, and academic exploration of the vast realm of spirituality, healing, and consciousness. We discuss the wisdom of the ages against the backdrop of a modern world. His book 'Return to the Sacred: Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening' –  is both a guidebook to finding the spiritual path and a collection of colorful stories from Dr. Ellerby's extensive travels and spiritual journeys.

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