Make a space for more happiness to sprout in your life!

1. When you plant a seed, first, you usually poke your finger or a pencil into the soil and make a space for it to be cradled in. You might break up the soil around it so it’s roots won’t have to struggle so much when it makes a foundation. How will you make a space more happiness?
2. Spring cleaning! Do you need to clean out your garage? Get rid of the relationship that you have known for a while is not going where you want it to go? Talk about the thing weighing on your heart that you haven’t expressed clearly? Do you need to do spring cleaning in the mind?
3. What do you need to tell yourself every day to remind yourself of your intention?
4. What do you have to do?
5. What do you need?
6. What promises to yourself do you need to keep?
7. What arrangements should you make with your accountability partner?

 

 

Week 2

What will this thing you are beginning look like when it is finished? Everything begins in the imagination.
What will it smell like?
What will it feel like?
When you relax and breathe, speak as though the thing is done.
Our atmosphere keeps all our air recycled. It’s been recycled since we had an atmosphere, before the dinosaurs. All of the creators and doers and world changers that ever existed breathed the same air that you are breathing now. You can do anything that you can imagine.
What makes you unstoppable?
What makes you powerful?

 

Week 3

1. In the spring, it’s easy to believe that all things are possible. What delights you about the spring?
2. What is blooming in your marriage?
3. What do you want to grow?
4. What gifts/skills do you have that will make that growth possible?
5. What might stop you?
6. What will you do to make yourself unstoppable?
7. Who can be your support/accountability partner?

All we have is “now”! Why do we wait for “things to happen?” In a relationship with yourself or your beloved, you can create your future. If you want more specific help, contact me and we’ll work something out.

Week 1

• What would you like to begin? There is always something. Really. You know what you want to do. Let it come to the surface. Maybe there are several things. A new way if speaking? A new way of listening? A goal? A deadline? A new recipe or exercise? Speak their names. Let them dance around in your imagination today and see what happens.
• What do you really want that you can start this month? What do you want to do or to have or to feel to be?
• What would be fun?
• What would make a difference for you? What would make a difference for the people you love or care for?
• How much time or energy do you want to spend?
• When will you begin?

 

I think this is a good place to put the archived thoughts for the week and other topics of interest.

 

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A healthy human being is aware of the desires of their heart and wants to do what they think they should do.  (From The Moral Authenticity Project, by Mary K. Radpour)

 

1. There are always things we know we should do but that we don’t want to do. How many of those things do we do anyway?
2. What part of us knows we should do it (be kind to someone who is continually grumpy, take better care of ourselves, be patient with a child when we are in a hurry but the child isn’t…)?
3. How much easier would it be if we wanted to do what we thought we should do?
4. How can we get in touch with that part of us that made us know we should do it in the first place? How do we get in touch with that higher consciousness that can create the desire to do even the inconvenient right thing?
5. What are examples of times when you wanted to do the right thing and then did it even in the face of opposition or danger?
6. Congratulations!

 

 

October’s theme is “What is a healthy human being?”

According to “The Moral Authenticity Project”, edited by Mary K. Radpour

“Healthy human beings have conscious choice, are aware of their desires, have imagination, memory, thought, and comprehension.”  Do Barney and Abigail know how they feel so they can make conscious choices? If they know how they feel, do they know how to act on that feeling? Do they understand the relationship between knowing how they feel and knowing  what they need to do to get the outcome they want?  What if they they wanted a night out every other week?  What values would have to  be strong to make them go from wanting that to making it happen?  Do you spend time with your beloved twice a month or more?  

My late husband and I realized that we had to have a date night once a week or we were going to forget who we were.  Even if we sat on the front porch and told our 8-13 year old sons  to stay in bed, inside on pain of death, we needed to look at each other as ask how our  respective weeks really had been.  We could listen without being interrupted, even if it was only for a couple of hours. We could hold hands or just sit together and not rush. We had come a hair’s breadth away from divorce and valued our  time together and our marriage.

What do you think Abby and Barney should do of they value each other and their union?  What do you do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bahaistudies.net/otherworks/authenticityproject.pdf