How to be Happier:

HAPPINESS IS A SKILL

Does this happen to you? You start talking about something like how to be happier, or play a better game of golf or basketball, or even add meditation to your life and before you know it, it’s become the theme of the week. Not because you planned it. Not because you set out to make it your topic, it’s just what shows up, for you, for me, for everyone around you.

That happened to me this past week and the topic was meditation. First one person then another brought it up and what I noticed was that almost everyone who mentioned it told me they were having a really hard time finding the time to sit and practice meditation regularly.

SO IS MEDITATING.

Having been there myself, in that place where it’s hard to find time for everything I want to get done in a day, much less adding in time to sit, breath and let my mind go quiet, I understand the challenge. I also thought about the assumptions I often make that can keep me out of my practice, so I asked, “how long are you sitting for”? I often got back answers like, “ohhhh….. 30 or 45 minutes”, accompanied with the kind of sigh that is both weary and frustrated.

“IF THERE WERE A LITTLE MORE SILENCE,

IF WE ALL KEPT QUIET…MAYBE WE COULD UNDERSTAND SOMETHING.”

― Federico Fellini

PRACTICE MEDITATION

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