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April 24th, 2012
Don’t try to be happy all of the time; being happiness means appreciating all life has to offer, and remembering the nature of balance, and the balance of nature.
Balance is like a lava lamp – gel on the inside of the lamp flows slowly to the side to which you tilt it. While we all would like to think that balance means having all aspects of our lives in equal proportion, the truth is, balance is more like focusing a little here, and then a little there.
Balance should be seen from a grand perspective, not in a snapshot of your life. In the long haul, life includes both pain and pleasure, joy and grief, and every other experience you can have. Instead of judging each moment as good or bad, remember that balance means flowing in one direction at a time. Have faith that there is order in what may look like chaos, and you’ll take a huge step towards appreciating all that life offers you, and an even greater step towards appreciating all that life offers you, and an even greater step toward abundant happiness.
—Bruce D Schneider, MCC, PhD
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
(Today’s blog is excerpted from iPEC’s self-mastery personal development program, The Law of Being.)
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April 16th, 2012
Like the weather, your moods are always changing. Recognizing and accepting your variety of moods and knowing that they will change is important to being happiness.
If you realize this, when you are up, you can fully appreciate the moments of pure pleasure. Instead of being disappointed when your great mood doesn’t last, you know that not only won’t it last, but it’s not supposed to, and so, you can appreciate it while it does.
When you are down, you also know that it won’t last, and because of that, you can weather the low. If you are really down, know that your natural balance will soon bring you up. If you want to look at it from a very high level perspective, you can now appreciate the downs, for each of life’s experiences are opportunities to experience all gifts that life brings us.
—Bruce D Schneider, MCC, PhD
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
(Today’s blog is excerpted from iPEC’s self-mastery personal development program, The Law of Being.)
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April 2nd, 2012
How well do you know happiness? Are you old friends, or do you need an introduction? If happiness is something that is elusive to you, you may not even be familiar with the feeling or the frame of mind.
Happy people expect happiness, and so, it is their default. They are generally happy, even though they get thrown for a loop every once in a while.
Other peoples’ default is unhappy, and it takes someone or something to make them change that default. That is the concept of the Law of Being; it’s the difference between being happy and being happiness. A person with an unhappy default can be happy (temporarily), but only a person with a happy default can be happiness.
So what is your default? Are you almost always happy, with it taking a lot to throw you off? Can you go either way on any particular day? Or, are you usually unhappy, needing something good to happen to shift you?
Understand your default tendency, and if it’s not what you want it to be, make a choice to shift it.
—Bruce D Schneider, MCC, PhD
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
(Today’s blog is excerpted from iPEC’s self-mastery personal development program, The Law of Being.)
Tags: choice, leadership, opportunity, self-improvement
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March 26th, 2012
Whether you realize it or not, experiencing Love is all you really want. Money, treasures, even good health and better relationships are all things you think that you need. But they are only strategies – means, not ends.
If your happiness is dependent on something outside of you, then your happiness is an illusion that can vanish once that person, place or thing is gone.
People with a lot of lower levels of energy are at the effect of the world. Something happens, or someone says something, and they go from being happy to unhappy at the drop of a dime. Those with higher levels of consciousness, though, create happiness as they choose. That doesn’t mean that higher energy people are always happy. It means they don’t judge unhappiness as a bad thing, and so, are able to experience life’s pains in the moment, instead of making mountains out of molehills, or holding on to painful experiences long after they happen.
—Bruce D Schneider, MCC, PhD
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
(Today’s blog is excerpted from iPEC’s self-mastery personal development program, The Law of Being.)
Tags: choice, consciousness, expectations, intentions, new perspective, reframing, self-improvement
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March 20th, 2012
The concept of duality is an important one to understand. Everything that we know of only exists in relationship to something else. There cannot be a left without a right.
The only way to know pleasure is to experience pain.
Fear lets you know, by experience, what Love is not. Fear helps you know fearlessness in its absence.
We experience loss to know by experience what it is like to be invulnerable.
The purpose of your life so far, is to know your true Self by comparison.
You can’t know that you are a being of unlimited potential, until you experience a perceived level of inadequacy. That way, once you remember the truth about who you are, you will have a basis for comparison and, in fact you might recognize yourself for the first time.
This week think about the concept of duality. How might recognizing that everything exists only in a relationship to something else alter the way that you view the world, or help you remember the purpose of experiences such as pain, as they occur?
—Bruce D Schneider, MCC, PhD
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
(Today’s blog is excerpted from iPEC’s self-mastery personal development program, The Law of Being.)
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