Calm and Cool — A Guide to Being Peaceful

Find Happiness 37: How Watching Your Breath Helps You Find Inner Peace

July 5, 2011

If you have ever read about or practiced meditation, it is likely that you are familiar with the prescription for watching your breath. You may have wondered why this exercise is beneficial, and I will now give you the answer, based on my first-hand experience. First a definition: the state of inner peace, as widely [...]

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Find Happiness 36: Use Inner Peace for Dealing with Guilt

April 26, 2011

If you are tortured by guilt, this is a post that could help you escape the torture chamber… As you may already be aware, there is a state of inner peace built into you. I point out the location of this state in my free 4-part course available here (take it). I call that state [...]

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Find Happiness 35: A Mechanic Can Fix Your Car, But a Guru Cannot Fix Your Head

April 6, 2011

————————————————————————————— No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ~Buddha ————————————————————————————— Yes, even if Buddha himself were teaching you, he could only tell you what to do to find inner peace. He could not make your mind go through the process required for realizing [...]

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Find Happiness 34: How to Calm Down a Hyperactive Mind Fast

February 27, 2011

I have been helping people become more peaceful for a long time. In the course of that, I have had one-on-one interchanges with several of them. I tell them to sit down for ten minutes a day and observe their internal landscape, then I talk about what they are seeing. But there are some people [...]

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Find Happiness 33: Morning Affirmation

February 16, 2011

May I realize that my every desire, every intention and every want is separate from me That I am but their peaceful observer Acting on them as my mind decides Unaffected by them, without agitation, without anxiety Reveling in the peace of pure being Forever rooted in my unperturbed state Peace, calm and tranquility [...]

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Find Happiness 32: Inner Peace in the Real World by Mary Allen, CPCC, MCC

January 11, 2011

This is a guest post by America’s Inner Peace Coach, Mary Allen. Mary is an authority on empowering “conscious achievers” to realize their goals, while deepening their sense of inner well-being and emotional fulfillment. Holding the Master Certified Coach certification, the highest credential offered through the International Coach Federation, she is among the top 1% [...]

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Find Happiness 31: Are You Using Worry as a Shield?

January 7, 2011

Many people use worry as a shield from facing basic issues. This article discusses why that habit is bad and how to conquer it. Everyone has or at one point had avenues of thought that they are afraid to pursue. For example, a person trapped in a bad habit might hesitate [...]

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Find Happiness 30: Proof of the Happiness Pudding

December 26, 2010

I send advanced happiness tips to my newsletter subscribers every week. Last week I emailed a procedure for avoiding the only-too-common flare-ups with relatives and friends during the holidays. These flare-ups are common for two reasons: first, because you meet many friends and relatives only during long holidays. Second, during these holidays you also have [...]

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Find Happiness 29: Stop Being Tortured By Your Mind… It’s Only a TV Set

December 19, 2010

_______________________________ It is only in our minds we seem trapped – in Reality we are utterly free. ~Ezra Bayda _______________________________ Do you feel a helpless slave of your mind? Do you feel you are powerless against it and you have no control over what it does to you? Fret no longer. The good news is [...]

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Find Happiness 28: How to Stop Being a Compulsive Shopper

November 13, 2010

“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.” — Abraham Lincoln Many of us are unable to resist compulsive shopping urges. We are abused by them and often driven by them to irrational acts of purchase. To disobey them entails total destruction of the psyche. But did you know that you [...]

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