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2nd December, 2008 - Posted by admin - No Comments
From the Author’s Preface:
What I will share with you in this book is not new. Great spiritual traditions, religious teachers, philosophers and poets have said the same things in far more eloquent ways for millennia. What I can offer you is a simple, practical handbook of seven specific behaviors that will change your life. You don’t have to believe anything. Just follow the rules, use the tools and cultivate the practices, with an open mind and an open heart. Be curious, be diligent, and be willing to allow Joyful Living into your life.
On Becoming a Playful, Light-Hearted, Loving Person Who Understands How Life Really Can Be Heaven on Earth
You know the difference in how you feel when you are elated, in love or wonderfully satisfied versus depressed, fatigued or overwhelmed. In the positive states of being, you feel light and powerful. Everything is easy and goes your way. Positive emotional states carry high vibration, high energy. In the negative states of being, you feel heavy, powerless and nothing goes right. Negative emotional states carry low vibration, low energy.
Most of us think that these emotional states happen to us. The truth is that we have more control over our emotional state than we imagine. Everything you will read in this book will help you take charge of your emotional state. You will learn how to deal with the circumstances of life - even the painful ones - and still maintain a high vibration or high-energy positive emotional state.
By following the rules and using the tools and techniques in this book actively every day, that is, by making each of these practices into a habit, you will change who you are. You will raise your energetic, vibrational level to the point that you will be a different kind of person. As you become lighter and more playful, more joyful, more loving, you will find life becomes an amazingly delightful experience, full of little miracles, astonishing ease and way more fun than you could imagine. You don’t have to believe me. Try it yourself. What would your life be like if you were joyful most of the time?
The ideas in this book may sound crazy, but they work. The seven rules or behaviors described here are the basis of all great teachings on living a fulfilled life. They are what respected philosophers and teachers have been saying forever. They are simple truths. I’m just presenting them in another way - with the call for you to practice them to make them habits in your life.
Once these behaviors and tools are habits for you - and it takes only three weeks of daily practice to make something a habit - you will be astounded at the difference in your life.
Copyright 2009 M. Gail Woodard
