The Secret Art of Happiness

Joyful Life: Writing and Helping Full-time

Summer is fully here. And with it arrives a dream. A year ago I started the first draft of my book and since then I have been working on it whenever I could. Now I am lucky to be able to devote my focus and energy this summer on the revisions and edits that will [...]

Reiki and Meditation Science Experiment!

Try this Reiki and Meditation experiment. See for yourself if your stress changes after a 5-minute meditation or Reiki self-healing. So, true confession time… I love statistics. I mean I really love them. I love data and analyses and spreadsheets. Yup. I love it all so much that I created my own stress index, the [...]

You can always choose a new thought

You are powerful. Your ability to create and focus your attention and energy is phenomenal. And I really mean that. You can create phenomena. Just simply by visualizing an outcome, it can occur. That focus, on what you want, begins shifting energy within you. When the energy shifts, everything else can too. I would venture [...]

By |2022-01-03T23:05:39-07:00May 28, 2015|Categories: Reiki, The Secret Art of Happiness|Tags: , , |0 Comments

I’m so proud of you 

standing here looking in your eyes  I fully see the person you once were and the person you are now.  The full weight of all the changes you have made are fully visible to me now.  I see how hard you have worked. I see how hard you have cried. I see the anger and [...]

By |2015-05-28T05:51:09-06:00May 28, 2015|Categories: Reiki, The Secret Art of Happiness|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

One tiny breath: Letting go of anger

Anger. It can be liberating, like a forest fire, burning down the old and unneeded. It can also be destructive. Emptying. A laying waste to the inner landscape. In its wake, we burn ourselves out and are left putting things in order. It is not that anger is bad; it is just that it is [...]

By |2024-01-03T18:59:58-07:00May 18, 2015|Categories: The Secret Art of Happiness|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Smart people ask for help

My son made a jarring statement in his usual matter of fact, six-going-on-seven tone, "Smart people don't ask for help. They don't NEED help. They can do it by themselves." Yikes! How did this thought sneak through? Of course, I know that he is in his big-boy-I-can-do-it-myself stage. And that he is likely parroting a [...]

By |2020-03-23T10:13:16-06:00April 20, 2015|Categories: Reiki, The Secret Art of Happiness|Tags: , , |0 Comments

What do you do when you can’t do anything else?

Well. That's it. There is nothing more to be done. The exam is finished and handed in. The letters have been sent. The ads posted. The request made and made again. Every angle has been tried.  Every detail checked. It is done. It is time to let go. Surrender is the hardest when we have [...]

By |2015-04-08T13:48:31-06:00April 8, 2015|Categories: The Secret Art of Happiness|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Signs of Spring

Signs of Spring is a process I use to enhance my trust in the Universe. I developed as a part of my book, Secret Art of Happiness: Change your Life with the Reiki Ideals. It really works. Just a tiny bit of positive attention to the things that are working in your life, means that [...]

The vulnerable edge of growth: Leaning into expansion.

March has been a turbo, jetpack of a month for me. The creative ideas have been coming fast and furious and I have willingly surrendered to the amazingness. YogaReiki (now a thing), meditation courses based on my book material, a new practitioner space, book writing, blogging, essential oil meditation, teaching Reiki. It is a really [...]

Letting go of Anger Affirmation Ladder

Letting go of anger is a process. It is difficult when we are overwhelmed with emotion to jump right to a positive, happy thought. Peace may feel light-years away. With the Affirmation Ladder process in my book The Secret Art of Happiness: Change your Life with the Reiki Ideals, you don't need to get to [...]

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