creating happiness

I experienced a feeling of coming full circle for something that almost destroyed my life. Years ago, i  developed a very bad pain in my lower back. Throughout that experience, I was given opioid medicine for the pain. As time went on, as I became used to it, so I would need higher doses. Before i knew it, I was neck deep. I was was able, with a lot of help of many people, to break free. I did very well, I think, but there were many moments of weakness I had to struggle through. When we recently began talking about me having back surgery, the concerns again arose. I was fine for pain meds while I was in the hospital. My worries were about after leaving the hospital. I really didn't want them in the house. Reluctantly, I was prescribed some. For the first day or two, they were needed for the pain. My wife would leave it for me to use at night so I could be comfortable enough to sleep. One night I picked it up in my fingers looking at it. I thought to myself, I'm not even...

try to set a side a day like tomorrow in which you consciously attempt to be mindful the entire day when you lose focus pull yourself back in in everything you do  do with a loving compassionate intent experiencing all the senses involved instead of dumping food in the dog bowl place it with the intent of love and compassion that you are providing life for a living thing setting it gently in the bowl recognizing the smells and how that effects your taste and so on becoming so immersed that yesterday and tomorrow don't exist like when time flies by doing something you love like working on a broken car do this every minute no matter how mundane when it clicks and you feel it it is just a matter of returning focus if you come across a situation where you are having difficulty finding the loving compassionate intent link maybe that's something not to do again incredible feeling give it a try

Find Best-Selling Books as Low as 99¢ at Alibris.com! Welcome to my life. My name is Steven Stepe. I have been on my spiritual journey since the age of 14 and I am in my middle 50's. I am a husband of 25 years and father of a grown son and daughter. I worked 25 years as a social worker helping others discover what they want out of life and assisting them to find it.  I felt early on, that I was awakened in some way, but had a difficult time moving forward. But, in the early 2000's, I experienced a very deep depression for 10 years. Through intense questioning of myself, by myself, I learned I had so far to go emotionally and spiritually. Through hours of working in my garden, therapy, and much support from my family, I am now at this point.  I am far from where I still wish to be and far from perfect, but a lot of progress has been made.  I am at the point of being content and happy. My focus has evolved from myself to wanting to help share my experiences and w...

ever since my my wife and i have been together i used to tease her about having a basement where she kept everything i ever did wrong that she would go down to  bring up  whatever she needed to support her current argument toward the the end of my dark days i figured out that i had a basement also,  but in mine i kept past hurts i also learned through my moments of clarity that i had the ability to go through the boxes i kept down there i visualized a dark cobweb filled basement floor to ceiling with dust covered boxes most of the boxes were unmarked and there was no order to what was in each i began walking down the stairs n my mind and became more comfortable with the fear of the unknown i began to open the smaller less threatening boxes i wasn't ready to do anything with them yet but i was able to at least move things around in the box as time went on i would began to pick things up look at them closely and even decide what i wanted to do wit...

i think the people in our circle each contain a portion of our own personality the good bad and ugly appreciate the good like we would like to be appreciated and learn from and have compassion for the bad and ugly like we feel we deserve several years ago i worked with someone that was constantly irritating me with what he did and said one day i had a moment of clarity and saw that i did very similar things and said similar things it may have had a twist but the same type of issues i made it a purpose to look for myself in other people especially with those that frustrated lo and behold i could always find an aspect of myself in others when i come across it now i take it as a reminder and it humbles me when i think of how i feel when i act like those other people i instantly empathize with them allowing me to be more patient which brings compassion toward the other person who is actually me I

my view is this i think god or whatever youwant to call it we're all talking about the same thing is like a folded towel nothing else exists but the towel in imagining this not even the room around the towel exists just towel i see everything ever created as water in a pitcher when we pour the water onto the towel it all becomes one thing the water is the towel the towel is the water god is in creation creation is in god everything we touch feel or hear or experience has god in it even the neighbor you don't like even yourself