Creating Happiness

What makes you happy? What gives you joy, pleasure and a sense of contentment? Webster defines happiness as "being favored by circumstances."

In the power of mindfulness and feng shui placement, you possess a key to explore and expand this quality, for you, personally, right now! It nourishes your heart and soothes your mind.

To begin, it is valuable to have a framework to acknowledge the presence or lack of happiness in your life. Enveloped in the whirl of day-to-day living, it is easy to be consumed with the demands of instant messaging and 24/7 availability, cell phones and all. Little time for self often translates to little energy for sensing and receiving.

Take a moment and look at what circumstances surround you; people, places and things. Place a number from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to define the positive influence of the top ten encounters that spontaneously come to mind.

Then look for a thread of elements that live in these experiences. Notice the environments, colors, textures and shapes.

Now reorganize your relationship with what is around you to pull these energies to you. Places to focus are: 1.) The first sight you see as you rise in the morning, 2.) The last sight you experience before closing your eyes to sleep, and 3.) The first sight you see as you enter your home.

These three places inspire a personal power as you travel through the various levels of expression; the way you are rejuvenated in sleep, move forward in the experience of the day, and return to you inner-essence of "home" from the expansiveness of your more public persona.

Living to harmoniously fulfill and exceed your destiny in a natural and peaceful way is a gift of mindfulness and conscious place. A periodic check-in supports your evolution.

The Buddha said:

"What you think,
You become."

What you see and sense creates circumstances to reinforce your pure spirit in the outer world. Happiness, health and success unfold and as you become most fully you!


About the author:

Melani Lewandowski is an internationally recognized consultant, coach and teacher of awareness methods and spatial alignment ~ feng shui.

Also of Interest:

• More Columns by Melani Lewandowski.
• More articles at the Feng Shui Directory.