Archive for Happiness

Get Your Groove on with Happy Songs

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 August 2, 2017
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Get Your Groove On with Happy Songs

Dance your blues away with Happy songs.

Happy Songs are an easy way to bring happiness into your life. Its universal, it can have an immediate effect  make you feel better quickly. Do you remember when you were a teenager, music was such a wonderful thing. You would close your door and dance so that no one can watch you. You felt so free and it was such an amazing way to just let go of all your worries and stress. Would you like to have the same feeling of coming alive? Feel happy? Have that ridiculous but cute smile on your face? Do you remember your favourite happy songs? The songs that awaken great memories. Make you feel alive. Make you feel light and energetic. Invoke Happy chemicals in the body and brain. Stir up joy and laughter within.

I dare you: Let your happy song flow  from your heart.

Here is my Happy Songs playlist. These songs uplift my mood, brings a smile to my face and my body comes alive.

 

Do you have Happy Songs? List them in the comment section.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLof3IaV-VrANKisjJ8vJxgL3g38QTyA

5 Ways to Colour Your Life with Happiness

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 12, 2017
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Colour Your Life with Happiness.

Soon it will be the festival of colour or Happy Holi, celebrated by Hindus all over the world.

This year it’s on 21 March 2019

 

In the Southern hemisphere, we are in full force summer. Abundance of colour all around us. Caressing the eyes, soothing the senses, igniting our lives with passion and excitement. The vivid hues tantalising our taste and thirst for a vibrant life. Dazzling our dreams with pulsating energy. At times calming our minds and warming our hearts. A gentle glow glimmer of hope.

I love infusing colour in my life to create Happiness, Hope and Harmony. Every morning when I awake I ponder my day and select the colour that is needed for the day. Some days are filled with positive events and activities that are full of bright colours. Other days are filled with challenges that are dark and sombre. I love to use the rainbow of colours to start the day. It’s fun and easy way to create positivity and richness in your life. Colours invoke our emotions – either positively or negatively. Let’s see how we can use colours to impact our lives and happiness. (Scientist say colours can influence your mood)

 5 Ways to colour your life with Happiness

  1.  Add a pot plant or buy flowers to brighten up and happy up your surroundings.
  2. Wear colourful cloths and if colour is not your thing wear happy socks
  3. Use colourful dinner set or breakfast utensils. Colourful mugs for your tea or coffee. Drink water in a blue glass
  4. Try a new colour nail polish or lipstick
  5. Eat colourful foods

colour yur life happy

The effects of 9 basic colours on your happiness: –

  1. Red is a vibrant colour that invokes passion, power, romance, drama, bravery
  2. Orange is a warm colour that conveys friendliness, fun, energy, creativity, innovation
  3. Yellow is a sunny colour that incites positivity, happiness, softness, hospitality, upliftment
  4. Green is a soothing colour that encourages growth, relaxation, renewal, safety, gentleness
  5. Blue is a versatile colour that delivers tranquillity, reflectiveness, dependability, intelligence, strength
  6. Purple is an enigmatic colour that arouses eccentricity, sophistication, excitement, calmness, luxury
  7. Brown is an organic colour that evokes earthiness, resilience, comfort, warmth, familiarity
  8. Black is a mysterious colour that invokes confidence, authority, seriousness, stability, safety
  9. White is a cool colour that conveys timelessness, purity, neutrality, cleanliness, freshness

The above colours incites these blissful emotions into my life.

Colours invoke pure pleasure and happiness. Infusing hope for something possible. There are many colours that might make you happy but the colours that I find to simply bring the greatest amount of happiness, hope and harmony into my life are red, black and orange.

How do you colour your life with happiness?

Book a FREE coaching call on how we can help you Colour Your Life with Happiness.

Let us show you how to infuse some brightness or calmness into your life.

What do you need?

 

 

Being a Real Woman Today

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 January 12, 2017
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Being a Real Woman Today

What does that mean?

Modern society has evolved where a woman is expected to be SuperWoman. She is a mother, wife, daughter, friend, boss, career woman, housekeeper, chef, ….. These demands can really break a woman down, and that’s why we should forget about society definition of being a real woman today.

A REAL WOMAN TODAY …

  1. Lives in the present day.Today is the most interesting and important day for her.
  2. Celebrates being a real woman
  3. A real woman doesn’t chase happiness.
  4. Cultivates her femininity internally (emotions, feelings, thoughts) and externally (body, clothing, behaviour).
  5. Lives at her own pace.
  6. Makes her dreams and desires come true
  7. Healthy appretite for life and for fun
  8. She is her own #1 fan
  9. Is able to support, help, and empathise with others.
  10. A real woman has her own life goals; she creates and achieves them.
  11. Doesn’t live by a ’checklist’ given by society
  12. She stopped being the ‘good girl’ long ago
  13. A real woman loves and appreciates being alone
  14. Ages gracefully. Loving her age.
  15. She knows that every age has its own beauty, sexuality, and charm.

THIS IS MY VERSION of BEING A REAL WOMAN TODAY

Over to you.

What is your definition of being a real woman today?

Please comment below to let us know your perspective

Thriving in The Sweet Spot

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 September 5, 2016
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Thriving in the Sweet Spot

Since I have launched my 30 Day Sugar Free Sweet & Sexy for Spring Challenge (Join the challenge its FREE! www.ilovesugarfree.weebly.com), I have been thinking about the phrase “THE SWEET SPOT IN LIFE”

What is the sweet spot?

“The sweet spot is that place where your greatest strengths and your greatest personal power overlap with those arenas where you find ease, where there is little resistance or stress” Christine Carter

I’ve wrestled with the sweet spot for a long long time. What parts of life need to blend together to get to it? Do you know? When struggle sets in life I become stressed and sombre. I lose my mojo when I’m too tense or tired. I feel stuck and strained. I know that I can get great successes outside of my sweet spot, but my body and brain just freezes. What can I do?

Here are 3 ways we can flow into our sweet spot (easily and effortlessly):

  1. Rethink busy-ness  Busy-ness can exhaust us and make even easy tasks seem harder. Any time we feel anxious & stressed, we aren’t working or living from our sweet spot. So rethink busyness to finding meaningful things to do or doing things with a meaningful attitude.
  2. Engage with People. One requirement for human survival is connecting with people; this sense of connection to others brings us both ease and strength. We feel less isolated, less lonely and less stressed. We feel we belong. We gain immense strength and feel safer. Start today by connecting with one new person you encounter.
  3. Practice makes Perfect. If you continuously to live and strive in the sweet spot. Over time with practice it becomes a habit. As we develop a good habit, they become second nature. Where we don’t even have think about. Easy as pie.

We then Thrive in the Sweet Spot with ease and comfort.

Take Action: Pick one of the above ways to flow back to your sweet spot, and decide WHEN you will do it. Insert in your calendar or for all intentions & purposes your fire may dwindle.  Where is your Sweet Spot in Life?

How Are You Today?

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 May 18, 2016
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How are you today?

This is the most common question asked by people.

The auto respond is FINE. To me FINE means: Feelings I’m Not Expressing.

Well …I am FINE today. %$()@^&$%*(@#!

I am mad and pissed off as a drunk driver collided into my friend’s car and she died. One of my very dear friends. We were not traditional friends. Just merely phone friends yet she was my BFF. I guess just BF now! My heart is sore. First it was shock now its transformed into anger. I will simmer in this pot of anger. Why the senseless death?

So I decided to take the day off today. Just reflecting and pondering about life death and all the in-between bits. In many areas I have just been going with the flow and not really engaging connecting with life. Just living day in day out on auto pilot in many ways. I thought I was quite aware but my soul has been asleep. This is where I am today. Awakening the soul is for another blog. Let’s get back to how are you today.

Are you really good? In my opinion maybe not. It’s just an auto respond we have developed when people ask us how we are. When last did you figure out how you really are? How you feeling and what you thinking?

Here are 6 steps to determine how you are today:

  1. Take 10 mins sitting down, closing your eyes and just being still. Breath in-out 5 times (normal breathing) to relax.
  1. Notice your body and how you feeling in your body. Take your time no rush here
  2. Name your feelings – sad, guilty ashamed happy hungry thirsty angry etc
  3. Observe what thoughts are coming up and just accept them. No judging no analysing.
  4. Write your feelings/thoughts on a paper. Tear up the paper in small bits and chuck them away. Letting go of all the feelings and thoughts while being kind to yourself.
  5. Now go do something fun to let your soul come alive

Make this a daily practice. You will see when someone asks how are you, you will go from FINE to Awesome, Great, Fab, Funtastaic, Ready to Rock the day, Perfecto, Everything is Magnifique, … create your own version of being on top of the world. Your day your life will move from mundane to magnificent

How are you today?

Stop Being Hard on Yourself

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 April 24, 2016
6 WAYS TO STOP BEING AHRD ON YOURSELF

STOP BEING HARD ON YOURSELF

Do you even realise how often you tell yourself the following?

“I’m so useless.”

“I’m such an idiot.”

“I never get it right. I am so stupid

For the umpteenth time you feel disappointed in yourself, ashamed of who you are, wracked with self-disappointment and sometimes self-hate. From deep within you feel like an utter failure, convinced you’re a nobody, a waste of time. You will never make it. You will never be a somebody. You’ve become such an expert at beating yourself up. Each day you find more opportunities to feel insignificant! To stop feeling good enough.

I used to feel the same.

l found ways beating myself up for my imperfections and then no matter how well I did, no matter how much I improved, still finding fault. Always looking at what went wrong.  All I did its was never good enough.

In fact, all I was doing was hating myself for being human. Punishing myself for being fallible. Suffering for trying to be like someone else.

But WHY?

Because all I wanted was to be loved!

And I thought if I was perfect person, the world would love me. And then I would be happy.

But the reality is, if you hate yourself so much you will never be happy, even if the whole world does love you.

To be truly happy, you need just one person to love you, and that person is YOU!.

But how can you possibly love such an imperfect person as yourself?

By understanding six life truths:

  1. Control isn’t everything.
  2. Family doesn’t have to come first
  3. Relationships aren’t perfect and easy.
  4. Mistakes are Okay.
  5. You’re not responsible for others
  6. Life can be hard and challenging at times

How do you feel after pondering on the 6 truths of life?

Look in the mirror and see love, not hate.

Stop beating yourself up over everything you think, say or do. Stop criticizing yourself endlessly for all your so called  ‘weaknesses’

Because every human being is born with flaws – yes its true.

Every person deserves love and support. yes they do

So feel good about yourself. oh go ahead….Feel great about yourself.

Look in the mirror and smile at the person smiling back at you.

Because that person is special, unique and deserves your love.

BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS YOU!

So STOP BEING HARD ON YOURSELF.

 

 

 

My Happiness Manifesto

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 20, 2016
I choose Happiness

Today is International Day of Happiness and I am writing my Happiness Manifesto

My friend dared me to write my own happiness manifesto. So I’m picking up the gauntlet she threw down and writing my own Happiness Manifesto. With that… I promise that I love myself enough to do the following to the best of my ability at any given moment:

My HAPPINESS MANIFESTO

Say YES to Life daily

Choose love and happiness—first, last, and always

Say no to drama in my own life Laugh–unabashedly. Sing–LOUDLY. Dance–BOLDLY

Live from my heart

Make memories – Connect with people

Apologize and forgive to maintain inner peace

Give myself permission to feel what I am feeling

Eat well and exercise

Relax and breathe deeply to manage stress

Live simply

Embrace on being happier

Do you what I love doing

Embrace my story, my power and be courageous

Smile often and be kind

Be silly. Read–everything

Grow flowers.

Hang out only with people who uplift my spirit

Not get stuck in a rut of self-doubt or self-recrimination

Not judge how other people live their lives

Intentionally make time for play and fun

Trust in myself and others

Believe in the good in people

Be vulnerable

Be generous and helpful

Watch less TV

Eat lots of chocolate

Cook, both simply and extravagantly.

Explore, discover and Travel

Dream big and bold

Wear ALL the colors. Be sparkly–in clothing and in spirit.

Inspire others to laugh and hope and love

Believe everything will be okay and work out

I Choose Happiness!

What do you choose?

What’s your manifesto look like?

Don’t have one. Try it. It’s pretty easy once you set your pen to paper. Post your manifesto on your page and link it here, or just post it in the comments. I’d love to read it, and with each manifesto we’re changing the world.

 

 

20 Things Stealing Your Happiness

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 19, 2016
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What is stealing your happiness?

Do you know? Do have a clue?

20 things that Cloud, Cover, Disrupt or Rob your Happiness in life.

Many things that are stealing you of your joys are habits we have developed. It’s what we believe to be correct.

Our happiness is a gift we are all born with. Its an inner switch. An inner knowing.

If we choose to develop it, focus on it and use it. It’s also quite simple to rediscover that inner joy and happiness — it just takes a little awareness and practice to develop new thoughts and habits. Here are some areas in your life that could be preventing you from switching on your happiness:-

  1. Complaining
  2. Gossip
  3. Talking down to yourself
  4. The stories we tell ourselves
  5. Comparing yourself to others
  6. Putting things off
  7. Fear of future
  8. Living in the past
  9. Holding on to Old pain and wounds
  10. Doing everything yourself
  11. Not prioritizing your life
  12. Starting many things and not finishing it
  13. Waiting for things to be perfect
  14. Trying to please everybody
  15. Not keeping your word
  16. Worried about what other people think of you or will say
  17. Not living your life
  18. Making the same mistakes expecting different outcomes
  19. Waiting for inspiration and life to happen
  20. Focusing on everything that is wrong in life

Be a good finder — to look for the good or some good in yourself and everything that happens and every person you meet. Actively find something good.

Use this affirmation daily: “Every day is a good day. Every place is a good place. Every person is a good person. Every thing is a good thing.”  Tell yourself that until it becomes a reality in your life. In your mind and heart. A strong belief about happiness.

I believe that the more you focus on what is good and right in life and celebrate it, the more happiness you will have. So there you have it — 20 things that can steal your happiness.

Choose One that is causing you unhappiness and find your way to change it to Switch on Your Happiness.

 

 

 

60 Things That Make Me Happy

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 1, 2016

60 Things that make me happy

Happiness is achievable. Happiness is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

We all strive to be happy. At any moment in our lives, we can change our minds and choose to be happy.

One way that we can uplift us to happy is by creating a list of things that make us happy. You thinking another list. Trust me…. just go with this.

This is a great motivational tool and reminder that we can use when we are feeling down. It’s a great up in down times. Just pick something from your personal list when you need to feel happy or just need a pick-me-up.

Of course, what makes me happy will not be the same as what makes you happy. Only you can explore and discover “What Makes You Happy?”

I thought that I would share with you my own personal list of things that happy up my life (in no particular order):

  1. Love chatting to people
  2. Cooking up a feast in the kitchen
  3. Colouring in complex intricate Mandalas
  4. Chocolate! Yeah yummy dark chocolate
  5. Having a family that loves me no matter what and knowing that they will be there for me when I need them.
  6.  Knowing that my parents are still with US
  7.  Knowing that I have the ability to support myself
  8.  Having friends who put up with my moody side
  9. Being able to write articles that touch other people.
  10. Taking up writing again and publishing articles on my own site – www.artofhappiness.institute
  11.  Learning something new excites me
  12. Helping someone solve a problem in their life, especially if it’s something that has been an issue for a long time.
  13. Being given a compliment
  14. Having someone say Yes to me when I was absolutely certain that they would say No.
  15. Being debt-free and not owing any money to anyone.
  16. Going to see a movie with my best friend.
  17. Being asked for advice because someone respects my opinion.
  18. Sleeping in on a Sunday morning and not having any firm plans for the day.
  19. It makes me happy knowing that I’ve travelled to some places in the world that others haven’t.
  20. Watching obscene amounts of television without a trace of shame
  21. Getting an email or a call telling me how something I’ve written has helped them.
  22. Smelling freshly-mown grass and feeling it under my bare feet.
  23. Being pleasantly surprised by someone special.
  24. Doing what I want how I want in my own space. HEAVEN
  25. Going out to dinner with friends.
  26. Working on my site and knowing that I’m making a difference.
  27. Receiving a phone call from a friend out of the blue and talking to them for hours.
  28. Sitting in the garden and reading
  29. Knowing that I graduated university and that no one can take my knowledge and wisdom
  30. Going on a picnic on a nice warm summer day.
  31. Taking care of myself with kindness and love
  32. Knowing that I am not just sitting around, but am actively working on creating my dreams
  33. Calling someone who I’ve been thinking of.
  34. Attending a musical that makes me happy
  35. Being appreciated and feeling that what I do makes a difference.
  36. Having supportive friends who give me great advice when I particularly need it.
  37. Having clean, crisp sheets on my bed.
  38. Being inside when there’s a thunderstorm outside. Being able to watch thunder and lightning and seeing the magnificence of mother nature.
  39. Recognizing some Spanish and French phrases and being able to speak it a little bit.
  40. Chatting up unlikely heroes, dreamers, and doers.
  41. Being appreciated for who I am and not what I can give.
  42. Decorating my home, the way that I want it decorated and painted.
  43. Making dinner for people that I love.
  44. It makes me happy knowing that I don’t have any major health concerns
  45. Three or four-day long weekends.
  46. I am capable and quite self-sufficient eg can change a flat tyre
  47. Having a clean house to come to
  48. Realizing that what I thought was so hard years ago, didn’t turn out to be so hard after all.
  49. Knowing that no matter what, I can figure things out. I will be okay
  50. Being able to spoil my family.
  51. Laughing and just being silly.
  52. Doing something that I thought I would never get the courage to do.
  53. Dressing up and showing up
  54. Going to the store and buying my favourite foods,
  55. Watching my favourite comedy shows
  56. Reading a new book and being wonderfully surprised.
  57. Accepting that it’s okay to mess up, learn and grow as a person.
  58. Giving what I can to other people who are less fortunate than I am.
  59. A good night’s sleep! Beauty Sleep! Deep Sound Sleep!
  60. Being creative and making something beautiful with my hands.

This is my personal list of what makes me happy.

Create your own list and share with us one or two things that make you happy

Power of I AM ….

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 15, 2016
POWER OF I AM

I AM is the expressions all about you.

The power of I am really makes you feel great or makes you feel totally yukkie.

The power of I am can make your day or spoil your day

The power of I am can make a day of wonder or a day of disappointment

The power of I am can create adventures or leave you on the side-lines

The power of I am can create meaning or leaves you empty

The power of I am ……….what?

What is your I am? Does it empower you or discourage you?

I AM is the expressions all about you.

I AM is one of the most important aspect of self-belief. It’s the driving factor in life. The ‘I AM’ decides which road to take. How the journey will be. Which spot to stop to look and admire. Which spot to drive pass and just take a glance. Sometimes just looking at the road and missing the beauty of the journey and drive. The ‘I AM’ determines how fast you go. You pass a detour – ‘I AM’ will decide to navigate the unknown route or just take the safe path. Within comfort zones.

Throughout life you’ve been through conditioning that created a mind-set overflowing with I am nots. As a schoolchild with a less than satisfactory grades, you thought to yourself, I am not smart. You place anywhere other than number one and tell yourself, I am not talented. You get told over & over that you have such great potential for all your projects. Never a word of well done. You feel criticized and believe that I am not good at anything!

You look in the mirror and compare yourself to a glamorous models tell yourself, I am not beautiful. You not asked out to the prom and you think, I am unloved or I am unworthy. These, and many many more like these I am nots, are repeated throughout your developmental years and into adulthood, and become your ingrained core defining self-perception.

Overcoming this I am not attitude begins with trusting your inner world. There are no boundaries restricting your inner world. But your worldview and your self-concept in the outer world are defined by your five senses.

How to get in touch with your I AM ….

  1. Run through a large list as you can of the things that you would like to define your life.
  2. Then make the shift in your imagination from ‘I am not or I am hoping to become’ to I am. You want what follows I am to be congruent with your highest self.
  3. Beginning with your inner dialogue, simply change the words that define your concept of yourself.

Eg. Instead of I am incapable of getting a job, shift to I am capable.

I am unlucky in love is replaced by I am love.

I am unworthy of happiness becomes I am happiness.

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What is your I am? Does it empower you or discourage you?

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