Growing Happiness

Check out this Free Advent Calendar by Noomii at
http://www.noomii.com/advent-calendar-2011/

It offers Acts of Kindness for the month of December.  You can even subscribe and have the daily tip sent to your email each day until Christmas morning.

Enjoy!

Peace & Gratitude

Happy Holidays

Fall has come and gone and now we enter the hustle and bustle of December.  This is the month where our lives ramp up with parties, gift buying, picture taking, tree decorating, cookie baking, finals, traveling and, of course, family!  It’s exhausting just thinking about it. 

So, how do you plan to get through it?  Is your plan to press forward with your head down and recreate a “Martha Stewart” holiday regardless of the consequences?   Perhaps, you plan to sleep...

For the month of November we have been discussing the importance of gratitude in our daily lives  There have been many suggestions over the past few weeks and I hope all of you have implemented one or more of these practices.

In honor of Thanksgiving, here are a few more ideas for practicing gratitude with your family.

1.  The Gratitude Basket-  Collect rocks and place them in a basket with a sharpie.  Have everyone around the table write one thing on a rock that they are grateful for this year...

This is my third installment on Gratitude and some of you may be saying, "I just don't have time to journal or meditate on what I am thankful for."  Well, keep reading because this is the blog for you!

Today, we are going to be discussing small things that can make a big difference in your life.  The most important thing about gratitude is remembering to be grateful.  Most people just get so busy with their lives that they don't remember to take the time to be grateful. 

The first tip to incre...