As I’ve told you before, the first 29 years of my life I spent chasing after something that was never meant for me.
After a dream that was someone else’s dream for me. Not mine.
I was just about to turn 30 when I gave birth to my first child, and that experience put me back on my real life path. I opened the specifics of this turnaround moment in my life more in the first episode of The Insights Within Podcast (check the Podcast page for links).
And of course the new journey began with a lot of questions to explore, as any new journey does.
One thing that came with it, was wonder.
How often do you wonder?
That used to be one of my favorite things back in my early teenage years. To wonder life and different phenomenons with one of my best friends. Usually for hours on end.
We called them spiritual conversations.
But for some reason that wonder had vanished completely from my life. For a long time.
Having wonder back in my life was my first step back to reconnecting with the happiness within.
But it wasn’t until four years later, when I experienced the full enlightenment about happiness being an inside job.
My third child was born with a condition that required an operation at the age of five months and the moment when I needed to give her up for the surgery, not knowing if she’ll survive, was a pivotal moment on my own happiness journey.
That experience made me realise how happiness isn’t ever dependent on anything outside of you.
It’s an innate ability we all have. One we can tap into, no matter what’s going on outside of us.
In that moment I needed to come to terms with the fact that I might have lost my child.
But instead of staying stuck in that horror scene, I turned the mind created movie back on and let it run forward. Realising that if the worst would’ve happened, I’d never lose the love.
I can’t quite explain what happened within me. But ever since I’ve felt that I’m free.
Free to be happy.
My happiness is not dependent even on my children. And that has helped me build a very different relationship with my children afterwards. One, where I’m free to enjoy them, and with them, in a much more deeper way I was before.
But of course life isn’t all smiles and easy.
It provides plenty of opportunities to practice what you preach and I’ve had my fair share of it.
Which is why I was so excited when I came across The Happiness Practice™ (THP) few years ago. It helped me to dive deeper into practising happiness in the hurdles of everyday life, no matter what was going on around me.
In THP you learn to
- Be conscious
- Honor your feelings
- Release control to be empowered
- Co-create what works and
- Learn life lessons.
Practising these seemingly simple 5 Principles of Happiness™ has not only deepened my own relationship with happiness, but also significantly decreased my stress levels.
They provided me with a formula for how to process intense feelings.
And not only for me, but for many others around the world, too.
I just finished facilitating a six-month THP journey for a group of university employees in Florida, and the results were amazing.
Personal happiness was up by 16,4% and burnout down by 27%.
Just imagine what would such results mean in your life? Or team and organisation?
So, if you’re wondering where to start on your journey of practising happiness, in order to flourish and flow into your purpose, power, prosperity and potentiality within, I suggest starting with the above mentioned five principles.
And if you’d like to practise them in a group, let me know. I facilitate cohorts regularly and am happy to tell you more about it.
Because happiness is your gateway to a whole new life.
Much love,
Paula
xx