Commit To New Experiences

Can you imagine feeling excited by life? How does it feel to look at yourself through time with the eyes of your inner child? Is it thrilling, scary, fun, boring, enlivening, or relaxing? You can use this activity to explore how you can be joyful now by being present and how you can be joyful in the future by claiming your life. Find the goodness of your past and try to let the rest go as best you can. Let this miniature life review help you be light and free. Step into being a capable adult with a gorgeous sense of childlike wonder. Embrace your past, as much as you can, to craft a blissful present and future. Release the baggage of the past. I share my love and gratefully accept love as it flows back to me. You can become a happiness junkie in a healthy way by noticing when good feelings crop up and what elicited them. It could be an activity, a situation, a person, a personal choice to be positive, or something else. Those magical ingredients are your path to an enchanting, evocative, rich, robust life of bliss. Often happiness occurs when you are giving of yourself. If you are connecting, sharing, and giving your love, it naturally comes back to you, and before you know it, you are feeling deep happiness.

Finding The Right Words To Say

Getting out and being with others who care for you and for whom you care leads to good feelings, dissipates loneliness, and causes happy moments. This is a powerful happiness enhancer because when you give of yourself, you don’t have time to think about how your boss is irritating you or how you are worried about your boyfriend. You are busy engaging with life and sharing your bounty. Giving shines a light on how abundant you really are. There are endless ways to give and share your own inner goodness. In your journal, make a list of ways you can give back. Share your joy with animals by volunteering at your local animal shelter or hugging and loving your pets or others’ pets. Choose one or two items from your list that interest you, and commit to doing one or more today. When you give and share, you tap into your love for others as well as yourself. That love naturally spills over to you. Giving from the heart lights a flame of kindness, forever illuminating your world. My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.

Sometimes The Good Guys Finish First

One of the fastest ways to tap into your inner bliss is to get in touch with your senses. Your senses bring your world to life. They enliven you and make your life Technicolor. Our senses give us information all of the time, but they are an often untapped reservoir of joy and enjoyment we could have in our lives. One of the reasons we are here in human bodies is to enjoy the experience of duality and of having a body. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations of being human are a rich, satisfying cacophony of potential pleasure and enjoyment. Feeling good and experiencing pleasure are important ways to live a rich and satisfying life. Imagine how good you feel when you take the time to see a gorgeous art exhibit or to listen to beautiful music. These are easy ways to engage your senses and feel enlivened. The idea is for you to do something to engage your senses every day to help you have a rich and full life. Grab your journal and a pen or colorful markers. What will be pleasurable to see, hear, smell, touch, and taste? Look at your list and pick one thing to do now.

A Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Go back to it each day and try to do another activity. Take ownership of your enjoyment of life and make a commitment to experience life’s pleasure on a daily basis. When you are enjoying life and are in touch with your body, you radiate more confidence and feel happier. Our senses are the lavish gift of being human. I let new experiences enliven my being and awaken new, amazing parts of my being. I experience life with joy and receive its bliss. When I was in my late teens, I visited my friend Kelly, who worked at Disney World in Florida. We went to the newest water park at the time, Typhoon Lagoon. We got to an activity in which guests wore masks and snorkels and swam over a massive tank of tropical fish. I’d never been snorkeling before. I was nervous because the tank was full to the brim with fish. Would they move out of the way? Would they touch me and be slimy? I got in and they were so vivid and so close that I had a primal reaction. I jumped out of the water onto a rock, shrieking. My best friend came up on the rock, took my hand, and said, I know you are going to like this. Come in. We got back in and swam through, holding hands, and she was right. We went though again, and I gained confidence around the fish and in the water. Later in life, I moved to Hawaii. But if I had not tried it in Disney and had a supportive friend to walk me through it, I would never have known. Trying something new every week or even every day enlivens your life like nothing else. Newness in any arena of life brings excitement, exhilaration, and engagement. It wakes us up and attracts our attention. Too often we are on autopilot, cruising through life only partially attentive. New experiences remind us we haven’t seen it all, no matter our age. Choose to utilize this simple path to bliss and try new things! Are you interested in feeling revitalized every week? Does that sound good to you? Then this is the activity for you! Commit to doing something new every week. Are you a football virgin? Go over them sometimes.